Recent poor DVD playback performance

[Craig White]

On Sun, 2006-11-26 at 16:54 -0800, Philip Walden wrote:
> I have FC5 and recently my DVD playback has tanked.
> 
> Both xine and mplayer (from livna and greysector repos respectively) act 
> like they cannot read the dvd fast enough. Xine plays for about 10 
> seconds and then freezes for a a second or two, plays some more and then 
> freezes again. Meanwhile the disk led is dark with minimal activity. The 
> same thing happens with a mounted DVD in the DVD-ROM drive. So it is not 
> my disk. Mplayer complains that "Your system is too SLOW to play this!"
> 
> It is a 800Mhz athlon with 256MB memory and a nvidia tnt2 AGP using the 
> nv driver. Although it is older machine, this system was great at 
> playing DVDs up until a couple of weeks ago. So I suspect a yum update 
> might have done something. Before this, I have been playing DVDs on it 
> happily for a couple of years from RH9, to FC4 and now FC5.
> 
> Anyone have some ideas for me to try oir areas to explore?
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Craig