On Sun, 2006-11-26 at 16:54 -0800, Philip Walden wrote: > I have FC5 and recently my DVD playback has tanked. > > Both xine and mplayer (from livna and greysector repos respectively) act > like they cannot read the dvd fast enough. Xine plays for about 10 > seconds and then freezes for a a second or two, plays some more and then > freezes again. Meanwhile the disk led is dark with minimal activity. The > same thing happens with a mounted DVD in the DVD-ROM drive. So it is not > my disk. Mplayer complains that "Your system is too SLOW to play this!" > > It is a 800Mhz athlon with 256MB memory and a nvidia tnt2 AGP using the > nv driver. Although it is older machine, this system was great at > playing DVDs up until a couple of weeks ago. So I suspect a yum update > might have done something. Before this, I have been playing DVDs on it > happily for a couple of years from RH9, to FC4 and now FC5. > > Anyone have some ideas for me to try oir areas to explore? ---- see the archives of this list (link in the footer) Check November 19th (1 week ago) Thread - DVD playback slow & choppy Craig
