[CentOS] CentOS 5 - Issues with multimedia

Mon Apr 30 11:10:28 UTC 2007
Ioannis Vranos <ivranos at freemail.gr>

first last wrote:
> --- Jim Perrin <jperrin at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Could this be a drive issue instead of a k3b issue? Does it play
>> dvd's
>> back at regular/expected speed or are they choppy. It could very well
>> be that if you're using the ata_piix module for the drive, that you
>> have to add some options to get it to perform properly. I had to do
>> this on my dell 9300 laptop under c5, but afterwards things move
>> pretty smoothly. Burning the c5 dvd takes about 2 minutes.
>> -- 
> 
> It is not a drive issue. The same drive in the same machine works
> perfectly on Ubuntu 6.10 with K3B. It does not seem to have any
> problems reading disks either.
> 
> I guess I am gonna spend a whole evening doing tests and recording the
> results (CPU, throughtput, etc).
> 
> Gabriel


Also make some tests using nerolinux demo, it works fully until it 
expires. If it crawls under nerolinux, then it is definitely a driver issue.