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  1. Member Zen of Encoding's Avatar
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    I was recently gifted an older laptop (Sony Vaio, PIII 650mHz-256MbRAM).
    I've unsucessfully attempted to run a few of the more popular DVD player
    software applications. The DVDs initially start to play, but soon start to freeze
    and/or skip. I believe that it's a problem with McAfee anti-virus hogging up
    the very limited CPU and 256Mb RAM, stealing it away from the shared
    graphics "card" process. However, I could be wrong about the limited
    CPU and RAM being the issue, but I don't want to have to shut-down my
    anti-virus software just to watch a DVD. Yes..... I know everyone hates
    McAfee, but it was free....so perhaps we could keep the topic limited to
    low resource DVD players:

    Can anybody suggest a software DVD player that has one of the smallest
    uses of CPU and RAM resources?
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    what operating system is on it ? win98 or 2000 will run a lot better on it than xp
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    Originally Posted by BJ_M
    what operating system is on it ? win98 or 2000 will run a lot better on it than xp
    Yes.... it's XP home.
    But, I'd really rather not load a new OS just to watch DVDs.
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    xp home is really to much for that system ...

    you could try media player classic or VLC

    you might just have to go through this list https://www.videohelp.com/tools?s=11#11
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    If you can find an older version of BS player that's pretty small too. On my AMD K6-2 500 MHz I used to use BS Player in desktop mode! DVD support isn't great, though.
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