Re: all video players dropping frames when playing dvd's
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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
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Cheers,
Wei Chen
http://www.acplex.com/people/wchen/
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