The other option for your father to watch movies of his holidays on his small-old system is to stick with Ubuntu 10.04, which is a Long Term Support (LTS) release and has a version of Totem which does not do deinterlacing.
Why does he want/need to run the latest Ubuntu 10.10 on such an old system? -- deinterlacing is default https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/667514 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to totem in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs