On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 17:24:59 -0500, Dave Phillips <dlphillips@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Yep, that's another one. God only knows why xine sometimes simply spins > out of control, leaving me with a frozen machine. Thankfully it happens > less with audio apps, but I like watching DVDs on Linux and I don't like > to worry about whether I'm going to make it to the end of the movie > without a major lock-up. It doesn't happen very often, and it's easy > enough to reboot but it's damnably tough to debug. Pentium II 350MHz with 128Mb RAM can run VLC (Video Lan Client) for DVDs very well. A few dropped frames, but no lock-up. I'm using the DeMuDi kernel. Stephen.