On Tue, 2010-05-18 at 22:41 -0500, jmmckee wrote: > When I attempt to play a professional DVD, I am now getting this: > > a52: CRC check failed! 1.123 ct: -0.852 323/320 18% 0% 2.7% 2 0 > a52: CRC check failed! 1.076 ct: -0.898 334/331 18% 0% 2.7% 2 0 > a52: error at resampling > > > Video is VERY choppy. > > This is running on Ubuntu 9.04, from the repository. > > Version info: > > MPlayer 1.0rc2-4.3.3 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team > CPU: Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N270 @ 1.60GHz (Family: 6, Model: 28, Stepping: 2) > CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1 > Compiled with runtime CPU detection. > > > What do I do now? > > John McKee As was pointed out to me only the other week, try and build a later version from source. When I had problems with Ubuntu 9.10 I ended up building a source snap shot from the mplayer web site dated 16th May 2010 and this cured the problems I was having; it was not difficult to build. John T.