Playing DVD

[Mikko Työläjärvi]

On Sat, 13 Mar 2004, Robert Golovniov wrote:

> Hello FreeBSD,
>
>   I've  followed  the  instruction  in  the handbook regarding playing
>   DVDs,  but  the  playback  is  still  not as smooth as I had it when
>   running on a Windows box. What steps can be taken to achieve a still
>   better quality?

Have you enabled DMA on the DVD drive?  It is turned off by default,
and makes the drive really slow.  If not, add

 hw.ata.atapi_dma="1"

to /boot/loader.conf to enable DMA at next reboot.  You can also
manually enable DMA with "atacontrol mode".  See atacontrol(8).

   $.02,
   /Mikko