[ale] OT: DVD Playback on Laptops

[Chris Ricker]

On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Geoffrey wrote:

> Christopher Fowler wrote:
> > 
> > I've been looking at portable DVD players because I've been having
> > issues playing back DVD's on my HP ZE1250.  the laptop has an AMD 1.8 and
> > 512Mb ram. Sometimes playback can be smooth and get choppy in some areas.
> > I can only playback now in Windows XP.  My issues with DVD playback and
> > lead me to believe that Laptops that have DVD drives are not suited for
> > DVD palyback.  Are thes opinions shared or do I have an issue on
> > my laptop?

If it works on the hardware under Windows, and not under Linux, that 
doesn't suggest that the DVD drive is the problem.... ;-)

> I'm going through and cleaning out the inbox.  Was wondering what your 
> resolution was.  I've got RH 7.3 on my Sony laptop, but plan on 
> installing SuSE 8.2 along side it shortly and was going to see how it 
> does with dvd playing. (pIV 2.4 ghz 2mb memory)

You should be fine, assuming that memory amount is a typo. No problems
playing DVDs on the laptop I'm typing this on (mobile Athlon XP 2200+)

later,
chris