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
"Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems." - Rene Descartes (1596-1650) -
Originally Posted by BJ_M
But, I'd really rather not load a new OS just to watch DVDs. -
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"Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems." - Rene Descartes (1596-1650)
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