On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 11:54:53AM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > i am not planning on watching a movie that is on a DVD-RW but > via [say] kmplayer via video stream. and rather than the std > 'movie-length' of 120 minutes, an hour or less streamed by PBS. > > with my 2.4ghz Dell loaded at its usual 0.25 - 0.4, and using > kmplayer or vlc, the video is jerky or hangs for several seconds.
A 2.4 GHz machine with a decent grahics card should have no problem with displaying full screen video, if you are using the XVideo extension. For mplayer try '-vo xv' on the mplayer command line, or put 'vo=xv' in ~/.mplayer/config. For VLC choose tools->preferences, and in the dialog window check "Accelerated video output" in the "Video" tab. It sounds more like a network issue. (you can confirm that if you can play files from a local disk without hiccups) Maybe increasing the buffering might help. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725)
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