Try this Add the following options to the mplayer when you play the movie: -mc 0.0001 -autosync 30 -cache 8192 Also before playing the movie enable the rtc like this su -c "echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq" su -c "chmod 644 /dev/rtc" and enable the DMA on the CD-ROM( or DVD ) I hope this helps Zsolt David T-G wrote:

Franklin, et al --

...and then Franklin Maurer said... % ... % You need to get xine or mplayer from packman.

I got mplayer, and all of the other pieces it needed; I had mplayer but it didn't have the css code. Now, and after a convenient link of /dev/dvd to /dev/cdrom, I can play my movie; woo hoo!

Audio is great (almost always perfectly smooth), but the video is very burst-y. Any idea what I can do to make things smoother, perhaps by buffering the read from the disc?

Thanks & TIA & HAND

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