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I too am experiencing choppy video, the audio is fine though. [root@FD4-PPC user]# sudo hdparm -d/dev/cdrom sudo: hdparm: command not found Is this something that I can install? I should explain that i am pretty new to Linux, so I don't know many troubleshooting steps... I don't know if this is hel...

Is DMA enabled for your drive? You can check by typing "sudo hdparm -d /dev/cdrom" into the console (assuming /dev/cdrom is the path to your DVD-drive).

I'm using VLC 0.8.1 on Ubuntu Linux 5.04 (kernel 2.6.10) with the alsa output plugin. Now when watching DVDs in 5.1 sound, I'm missing the center channel. I already checked the configuration of alsamixer and that should be alright, because in xine surround sound works just fine. When I switch from s...

I've just fixed the problem, but thanks anyway. (btw regedit is useful^^)

Today I got my "WinFast TV2000 XP Expert"-TV card, installed it and was happy -- until I noticed that now vlc behaves really strange when I open a file through doubleclick. The buttons in vlc flickers for a short time but then nothing happens. I wondered why there was this flickering and o...