[ale] DVD player

[Alex Carver]

Strangely it worked fine under XP Home (the previous OS obviously ;)).
In fact I watched a DVD on the machine before I wiped it.  There were a
couple hiccups because a Windows update was trying to happen in the
background but once I shut that down it was fine through the movie with
one blip at the layer switch.

On 9/23/2013 15:32, Jim Kinney wrote:
> +1. Underpowered hardware sounds likely.
> On Sep 23, 2013 12:09 PM, "Calvin Harrigan" <calvin.harrigan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> On 9/23/2013 11:54 AM, Alex Carver wrote:
>>
>>> Mplayer didn't work on mine.  It kept crashing out of the DVD playback
>>> almost as soon as it started.  The main problem during playback is short
>>> pausing/jerks in the video which I'm attributing to slow throughput from
>>> the DVD drive itself.  Even reniced to -10 xine was having issues.  I'll
>>> have to try VLC again, too.
>>>
>>> On 9/23/2013 08:51, Boris Borisov wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm using mplayer on the PC's slow CPU and not much memory. Old
>>>> Toshiba 700 Mhz 192 MB RAM.

>>>
>> That also sounds like not enough CPU horse power.  A P3 at 1 GHz may not
>> cut it without hardware assistance. As far as I know any dvd drive can read
>> data fast enough to allow for video playback.