<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" <<a href="mailto:agcarver%2Bale@acarver.net">agcarver+ale@acarver.net</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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>
<br>
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 href="mailto:calvin.harrigan@gmail.com">calvin.harrigan@gmail.com</a>><br>
> wrote:<br>
><br>
>> 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>
<br>
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