[ale] DVD player

[Calvin Harrigan]

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.
>
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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.