all video players dropping frames when playing dvd's
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?
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