Jerky playback on PC???

[bazsl]

I tried to play a DVD on a 1 gHz PIII with a cheap video card and the playback was very jerky. Is a 1 gHz PIII fast enough to play a DVD?

The real question is, is the jerky playback caused by the CPU being too slow or by the low end video card?

[Shamus_McFartfi]

A 1gig/P3 is ample to playback video. Anything over a 4meg video card should be sufficient also. First thing I'd do is try different DVD player software. Media Player Classic is a good choice. If it still plays up, repost and we can suggest other things to try. Link below.

Hmm... SourceForge is down. Try this link instead.

http://www.divx-digest.com/software/media_player_classic.html

[jmet]

Are you playing the DVD in "Full Screen"? or in a Window?

[bazsl]

According to Windows the video card is a Trident Video Accelerator Blade 3D with 8 MB of RAM. I tried both Media Player Classic and VLC Media player. The playback was jerky with both.

As I said, the system is a 1 gHz PIII. It is running Win2k Server SP3 with all updates except SP4 installed. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

[jmet]

"8 MB of RAM"

Think that is your problem.

[bazsl]

How much RAM do I need on the video card?

[intellution]

I have a PIII 1Ghz PC as well but my video card has a 32MB memory AGP4X and have 512MB system memory. No problems viewing DVDs on my PC (full screen).

Hope the above helps as reference.