[Wolves] Jerky video

[Mark Ellse]

Thanks for the help on this. I've done a bit more work on this now
with my son, who's getting into Ubuntu.

He's produced a guide on his website about everything that is needed
for getting DVDs to work with Ubuntu. The link below may be of
interest or use.

http://blog.jjtcomputing.co.uk/2009/08/22/playing-encrypted-dvds-in-ubuntu-the-complete-guide/

Mark

2009/7/22 Kevanf1 <kevanf1 at gmail.com>:
> I do recall having difficulty with spasmodic video (I'm trying to
> raise the tone here out of 'jerky' video) and finding that SuSE was
> one of the worst while Kubuntu worked fine on the same hardware.  I
> also tried DMA settings etc.  This was on pretty ancient hardwre and I
> did get a satisfactory result in the end.
>
> What hardware are you using?  I can play decent video on a 1.8ghz
> Athlon chip with a 128mb RAM nVidia card and about 750mb (that needs
> rounding up I know) of RAM.  I can go back about 3 or 4 revisions of
> Ubuntu on that hardware and the video (proper shop bought DVD) works
> great.
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