[ale] DVD player

[Jim Kinney]

+1. Underpowered hardware sounds likely.
On Sep 23, 2013 12:09 PM, "Calvin Harrigan" <calvin.harrigan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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.
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