<p dir="ltr">+1. Underpowered hardware sounds likely.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Sep 23, 2013 12:09 PM, "Calvin Harrigan" <<a href="mailto:calvin.harrigan@gmail.com">calvin.harrigan@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On 9/23/2013 11:54 AM, Alex Carver wrote:<br>
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Mplayer didn't work on mine. It kept crashing out of the DVD playback<br>
almost as soon as it started. The main problem during playback is short<br>
pausing/jerks in the video which I'm attributing to slow throughput from<br>
the DVD drive itself. Even reniced to -10 xine was having issues. I'll<br>
have to try VLC again, too.<br>
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On 9/23/2013 08:51, Boris Borisov wrote:<br>
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I'm using mplayer on the PC's slow CPU and not much memory. Old<br>
Toshiba 700 Mhz 192 MB RAM.<br>
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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.<br>
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