ogle - installed but no sound and jerky picture.

[Calum]

ok, i have installes ogle on red hat 8 box with a celery 700Mhz CPU and 128 M of RAM, now i am getting no sound and v. jerky picture, and resizing the display window doesn't change anything.

I know nothing about this, can anybody help me in any way here. The sound card works fine and other apps can make sound fine.

Thanks et c. in advance.

[shuiend]

I was get the same thing with my duron 800mhz. But the picture is also double and it leaves off some. This happened with program i used to watch dvd's to not just ogle. What i do know is rip and evcode the dvd with K3B and then burn it to a cd and that works.

[Calum]

still haven't got into ripping and encoding... once i get ogle working, that's next.

[KernelPanic]

How is ogle displaying, is it using Xvideo?

[Calum]

don't know.
i installed ogle_gui as well, and it just opens in a window, but with no sound and a jerky picture.
i'll need to read the man pages but i thought i'd just ask here too since i know some other people have used it.

[slave]

I had this problem too, it's because RH8 comes with DMA disabled for CDROM drives.  Don't ask why.  To enable it, edit /etc/modules.conf and add the line

options ide-cd dma=1

Now to turn on DMA for your DVD device, type

hdparm -d 1 <device name> (such as /dev/dvd or /dev/cdrom)

Not sure about sound, try the FAQ here:

http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/faq.shtml

[voidmain]

quote:Originally posted by Linux User #5225982375:
I had this problem too, it's because RH8 comes with DMA disabled for CDROM drives.  Don't ask why.  To enable it, edit /etc/modules.conf and add the line

options ide-cd dma=1

It must only be true for some drives. I have two CD drives in my desktop here (one CDRW and one read only drive) and both of them have DMA enabled according to hdparm. I didn't have to do anything special, it configured them that way at install time.

[shuiend]

when i do
[root@localhost root]# hdparm -d 1 /dev/hdd

/dev/hdd:
 setting using_dma to 1 (on)
 HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted
 using_dma    =  0 (off)
that is the error message i get. Can any one explain howto make it use dma. Also what the hell is DMA?

[voidmain]

That error would indicate to me that your drive doesn't support DMA transfers. DMA stands for "Direct Memory Access".

[shuiend]

my dvd-rom drive manual says that is supports ide/ultra-dma 33Mbytes/sec. Would that mean that it supports dma in linux. i am using a cheap EPO dvd drive so that may be it. EPO is a company from taiwan and it does not have anything about the dvd-rom on there site. I think i might be emailing them tommorow about it.

[voidmain]

Hmmm, what is the output of "hdparm /dev/hdd" and "hdparm -i /dev/hdd"?

[ January 12, 2003: Message edited by: void main ]

[preacher]

quote:Originally posted by Calum:
ok, i have installes ogle on red hat 8 box with a celery 700Mhz CPU and 128 M of RAM, now i am getting no sound and v. jerky picture, and resizing the display window doesn't change anything.

I know nothing about this, can anybody help me in any way here. The sound card works fine and other apps can make sound fine.

Thanks et c. in advance.

Here is the low down on Ogle's jerkiness. Simply put, its just not a very high quality player. I had it running just fine with sound and everything on my 400 mhz laptop with Mandrake Linux 9.0, but the picture wasnt nearly as smooth as I had hoped. I remember reading a review of Ogle a while back and the reviewer complained of the same thing. Anyway check out this screenshot of it in mandrake. I was watching AntiTrust.

http://www.badconnections.net/misc/laptop.png

[Calum]

i don't mind if the picture quality lowers a bit if i can make the jerkiness go away. i will try that dma thing when i am back at home and when i have recovered from this cold, also i am having some funny sound problems too. i am thinking perhaps the sound issue with dvds has something to do with red hat not including any mp3 playing stuff in their OS? isn't the audio stream of a dvd mp3? also, i needed to change the output plugin for xmms from OSS to Arts to get it to work, but i still cannot get cdp or Kscd to work. they play the CD ok it seems, but i cannot hear it. i wonder why?   :confused:

[shuiend]

this is what i get when i use those two commands void main

[root@localhost root]# hdparm /dev/hdd

/dev/hdd:
 HDIO_GET_MULTCOUNT failed: Invalid argument
 IO_support   =  1 (32-bit)
 unmaskirq    =  1 (on)
 using_dma    =  0 (off)
 keepsettings =  0 (off)
 readonly     =  1 (on)
 readahead    =  8 (on)
 HDIO_GETGEO failed: Invalid argument
[root@localhost root]# hdparm -i /dev/hdd

/dev/hdd:

 Model=ATAPI DVD-ROM 16X, FwRev=422R, SerialNo=DVD-ROM F/W 002
 Config={ Fixed Removeable DTR<=5Mbs DTR>10Mbs nonMagnetic }
 RawCHS=0/0/0, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=0
 BuffType=unknown, BuffSize=0kB, MaxMultSect=0
 (maybe): CurCHS=0/0/0, CurSects=0, LBA=yes, LBAsects=0
 IORDY=yes, tPIO={min:227,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:150}
 PIO modes:  pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
 DMA modes:  sdma0 sdma1 sdma2 mdma0 mdma1 mdma2
 UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2
 AdvancedPM=no

I am going to read through the man pages of hdparm when i get home from skool this afternoon and see if i can make sance of any of this.