-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Freddy Freeloader wrote: > Hi all, > > I hadn't played a movie on any of my computers for 2 or 3 months, and > tried to play one today as I had enough time to watch one. What I found > is that movies that used to play very well on my laptop and my > workstations will not play at all anymore. They drop frames so badly > that the players, vlc, totem, and mplayer, all crash. The audio plays > at varying speeds and drops frames/skips too. > The other thing I found was that dvd's that I had copied to disk no > longer play. Totem used to read .iso files and play them just as if it > was reading off a dvd disk. Now Totem says it is missing a plugin and > can't read them. VLC and Mplayer used to read those same .iso files and > play back the movies very smoothly. Now they crash trying to play them. > I used to play movies with 2-3% cpu usage at full screen, and the > picture was crystal clear and the sound great. Now cpu usage is at > 30-40%, and as I said, nothing plays worth a damn. > What has happened to the ability to play movies in the last couple of > months? If it was only one of my computers I'd be thinking it had a > problem, but it's not. It's all of my computers. I haven't done > anything to them other than just keep on updating them as I run Sid on > all them. > Is anyone else experiencing this same thing? It looks to me as if > something has undergone a major change, but what? >
Hi, I play DVD ISO images using xine, since it has support for DVD interactive menu. It works well and the CPU usage is around 10%. I do not know the difference but I have debian-multimedia.org in my sources.list. I do not know whether that matters. BTW, I am using lenny. HTH - -- Cheers, Wei Chen http://www.acplex.com/people/wchen/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHJDGFCIqXQV6BF28RAookAKDbyLZcU2oh0OMvzfkhx5lZEy98WwCgx5BC BQBtGyPyQCKHqfJCf2syYpE= =85Y0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
