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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">It probably works under windows because
the driver supports hardware assisted decoding and presentation
offloading the cpu. In Linux, everything is likely done by the
CPU. What video driver are you using for the video card? Also
what video card is in the laptop?<br>
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On 9/23/2013 6:57 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:<br>
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<p dir="ltr">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.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Sep 23, 2013 6:42 PM, "Alex Carver"
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Strangely it worked fine under XP Home (the previous OS
obviously ;)).<br>
In fact I watched a DVD on the machine before I wiped it.
There were a<br>
couple hiccups because a Windows update was trying to happen
in the<br>
background but once I shut that down it was fine through the
movie with<br>
one blip at the layer switch.<br>
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On 9/23/2013 15:32, Jim Kinney wrote:<br>
> +1. Underpowered hardware sounds likely.<br>
> On Sep 23, 2013 12:09 PM, "Calvin Harrigan" <<a
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> wrote:<br>
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>> On 9/23/2013 11:54 AM, Alex Carver wrote:<br>
>><br>
>>> 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>
>>><br>
>>> On 9/23/2013 08:51, Boris Borisov wrote:<br>
>>><br>
>>>> I'm using mplayer on the PC's slow CPU and
not much memory. Old<br>
>>>> Toshiba 700 Mhz 192 MB RAM.<br>
<br>
>>><br>
>> That also sounds like not enough CPU horse power. A
P3 at 1 GHz may not<br>
>> cut it without hardware assistance. As far as I know
any dvd drive can read<br>
>> data fast enough to allow for video playback.<br>
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