[ale] DVD player

[Calvin Harrigan]

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?

On 9/23/2013 6:57 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> On Sep 23, 2013 6:42 PM, "Alex Carver" <agcarver+ale at acarver.net 
> <mailto:agcarver%2Bale at acarver.net>> wrote:
>
>     Strangely it worked fine under XP Home (the previous OS obviously ;)).
>     In fact I watched a DVD on the machine before I wiped it.  There
>     were a
>     couple hiccups because a Windows update was trying to happen in the
>     background but once I shut that down it was fine through the movie
>     with
>     one blip at the layer switch.
>
>     On 9/23/2013 15:32, Jim Kinney wrote:
>     > +1. Underpowered hardware sounds likely.
>     > On Sep 23, 2013 12:09 PM, "Calvin Harrigan"
>     <calvin.harrigan at gmail.com <mailto: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.
>
>     >>>
>     >> 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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