[ale] DVD player

[Jim Kinney]

So toss on a more "feature complete" distro and do a test run. It may be
the skinny one is compiled for using various hardware emulation for video.
Or the graphics card driver is just feeble.
On Sep 23, 2013 6:42 PM, "Alex Carver" <agcarver+ale at acarver.net> wrote:

> 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.
>
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