-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, John Abreau hath spake thusly: > "Chris Tresco" writes: > > > What is your CPU speed and was the ide drive using DMA? > > Yes, I had DMA enabled on the older drive. CPU speed is 1.2GHz. Presumably the CPU wasn't 1.2 GHz at the time? An 800MHz processor was about what people were saying was required to play DVD video at "normal" quality (assuming no hardware acceleration of either the decoding or video) when I first started trying to play DVDs under Linux. Now, there have been significant improvements to video acceleration (if you have a supported card) that have helped this quite a bit, and of course if you have a very fast processor it's just not an issue. I have one of those DVD drives myself -- however I don't think the SCSI-ness of it has a significant impact on the performance of playing DVDs. I have (identical, I think) IDE DVD drives in both of my laptops, and the one with the GHz processor and the acceleration-supported video chipset plays DVDs just fine. The celeron 450 with unsupported card does not. I do have one comment about that drive though: after some months, the drive started to "whistle" when I put discs in it. It still works fine (not that I use it much anymore), it's just annoying. - -- Derek Martin ddm@pizzashack.org - --------------------------------------------- I prefer mail encrypted with PGP/GPG! GnuPG Key ID: 0x81CFE75D Retrieve my public key at http://pgp.mit.edu Learn more about it at http://www.gnupg.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8+Pv/djdlQoHP510RAnlGAJ9XAqa6uBCBih1qGus7wSVO706/AACgntZY 7V7RA+slFY5AAtJR+1KS1ys= =pITZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----