Re: DVD Movies on Ubunto

Probably a bug with the gstreamer software.

The other problem I had with Ubuntu was not having DMA access on my DVD player. Even though the module (amd74xx, I have an NForce mobo) was loaded I gather it wasn't loaded fast enough. I had to modify my /etc/modules and put the amd74xx at the very beginning. From what I read, if you don't put your chipset in there it will load the generic modules first which will stop DMA from working.

After a quick reboot, I was then able to edit my /etc/bootmisc.sh (something like that) and put /sbin/hdparm -d1 /dev/hdb and the same for /dev/hdc. DMA now works on it.

Sorry for the off topic post. I just went through this last night and thought others might find it useful.

Jason Spatafore <jason@spatafore.net> wrote:

>On Friday 29 April 2005 20:39, Chip33AZ@netscape.net wrote:
>> I just had this (or something very similar). I followed
>> www.ubuntuguide.org to enable DVD playing, but Totem wouldn't work.
>>
>> Reading on their website, I installed totem-xine, and it worked. When you
>> install totem-xine, it will remove totem-gstreamer, but that is fine.
>
>I had a similar problem when I first installed on RHL. What I ended up doing
>was installing gxine/kxine depending on which desktop I was using. That
>cleared it all up for me.
>
>Anybody know the reasoning why it worked? Perhaps there's a configuration file
>that gets replaced during those installations?
>
>--
>Sincerely,
>
>Jason Spatafore
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