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Rofl_Mao
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 Posted: Thu, 16th Jun 2011 22:04 Post subject: Slow DVD playback on 2003 laptop |
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So I was asked to look at a beamer hooked up to a laptop, used to play DVDs in a museum. The problem is: the dvd playback is slow and choppy. A poor museum I might add, buying new hardware is not an option! I have checked the hardware monitor (CTRL-ALT-DEL) and the DVD playback is using 100% CPU performance. What baffles me is that my old PC at home with roughly the same specs can play DVDs just fine. It's got a desktop Athlon XP-2600+.
The laptop is an Acer Aspire 1350, which dates from 2003 (not sure). It's got an Athlon XP-mobile 2600+ CPU, 1GB of RAM and a hard drive with plenty of free space. The video chip is an S3 with 64MB of RAM. The resolution is 1024x768 with 32 bit colours. Very few apps are installed on the laptop and it's pretty much never been connected to the internet, so it can't be shitware running in the background or leftovers from installing/uninstalling.
The solutions I've tried: using lightweight media players. I've tried SPlayer and MPC -- but both didn't work. I've upgraded Windows to SP3, still no result. Switching to 16 bit colours also didn't help.
Solutions I have yet to try: install DirectX 10, it's using 9b at the moment. Not sure if this will make a difference. Do something with the dual monitor setup. Currently the laptop's own display is already fully shutdown, so I don't know if I can improve anything there. Using single display setup and see if video will play smoothly on the laptop's own display. A last resort solution would be to hook up a stand alone DVD player to the beamer. But that would require me to partially dismantle the ceiling in order to connect the wires. And I prefer to not run the risk of fucking up the ceiling.
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| Posted: Thu, 16th Jun 2011 22:13 Post subject: |
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Sounds as if there are no video drivers installed.
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| Posted: Thu, 16th Jun 2011 23:30 Post subject: |
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try using VLC to play DVDs !
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Rofl_Mao
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| Posted: Fri, 17th Jun 2011 09:19 Post subject: |
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| PumpAction wrote: | | Sounds as if there are no video drivers installed. |
I checked the display options and I noticed the S3 tabs with specific options. So the display drivers are installed I guess. They were still original drivers from 2003 I think, so I could try and upgrade them...
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Rofl_Mao
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| Posted: Fri, 17th Jun 2011 09:21 Post subject: |
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| Hfric wrote: | | try using VLC to play DVDs ! |
That could work -- though I should add I've already tried 2 other very lightweight players.
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