DVD movie hardware requirements

[Thomas Halahan <tom@halahan.com>]

dear deb-user

i recently purchased a dvd player and tried to play a dvd movie using 
videolan.  whilst the dvd did play the results were juddery, which i 
assume comes down to insufficient hardware to decode the dvd in real 
time.  during play my cpu and ram were flat out.

after reading the dvd howto i still didn't get a feel for what 
hardware i would need to get perfect replay.  if anyone knows the 
minimum requirements (if this is definable) i would be very 
interested.

currently i have 2.2.17, 4MB video card, 128MB RAM and 400MHz K6-2.

regards tom