[ILUG] Humble pie!

[Vincent Cunniffe]

John Gay wrote:

> Well, after all my bitching, I decided to try a few more DVD's. Seems I can 
> watch The Mummy Returns and the Mummy returns bonus disc 2, but not the Mummy 
> Bonus Disc2? And the DVD's I had been trying were the Hitchhiker Guide to the 
> Galaxy and it's bonus disc, which also don't work :(
> 
> Changing the permisions for scd1 helped as well. The device is /dev/cdrom2 
> which is linked to /dev/scd1. cdrom2 had 666 but scd2 had 660. I suppose I 
> should have changed myself to the cdrom group, but I'm lazy.
> 
> Now I just need to work on tweeking my system so I can get better than 9-11 
> fps. I also wish I could find out why only certain DVD's work. I ws realy 
> looking forward to watching H2G2!


What software are you using again?

Under Xine, using the SHM driver the performance bites, while using the Xv
driver it's vastly smoother and takes less CPU.

Just FYI ;-)

Vin