[mythtv-users] DVD drive activity disrupts video

Ian Clark mrrooster at gmail.com
Tue Mar 10 15:04:36 UTC 2009


2009/3/9 Brian C. Huffman <bhuffman at graze.net>

> All,
>
> I've been having problems with mythtv and playing DVDs for some time.
> When playing a DVD I get video choppiness every so often during high
> motion scenes.  I've noticed that if I rip the DVD and then watch it
> there's no problem.  Recently I've watched closer and it seems that the
> video skips seem to be in time with the activity light on the DVD drive.
>
> [snip]

What interface is on the DVD drive? IDE or SATA (or another?), is it using
DMA mode? sounds like it may be stuck in PIO?
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