From: Dan K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I've got a 300MHz (OC'd 233 (rev A? B?)) Bondi with newly installed DVD-ROM drive and while VLC can play DVDs the video is rather herky-jerky.
The thing has 6MB of video ram, I'm quite astonished that you can get it to play at all!
Hoping to be able to tweek the video playback, I perused VLC's options but I am clueless faced with the bewildering array of choices.
Wouldn't make the slightest bit of difference if you understood it -- the problem is beyond anyone's ability to solve (the lack of sufficient video RAM).
- If I install a faster cpu might I ever see smooth DVD playback?
At this point, shouldn't you really be looking at a Mac mini or refurb eMac -- or a cheap DVD player??
- What other changes or upgrades should I consider?
Even if you could stick a 2gHz CPU upgrade in there with 1GB of RAM, you *still* wouldn't be able to play DVDs properly. The problem is something that cannot be upgraded, the video RAM. Give up trying to get DVDs to play smoothly on that machine -- it's *never going to happen.*
So while I appreciate the anticipated suggestions to just replace the whole thing with a slotload or better model, that just ain't gonna happen.
Then there's no solution to your problem except to buy her a $30-40 "real" DVD player and hook it up to her TV (something you should have done a loooong time ago rather than waste time on this pointless endeavour).
_Chas_
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