It will work, but video will be just as choppy as in windows. The weak spot is either video or CPU. To decode MPEGs of that size and quality requires a lot of overhead, which is why many video cards now have mpeg decoders on them. I am guessing that your card does not have that (and if it did, I dont know what sort of linux support you would get out of it) and thus most of the processing falls to the CPU. I have an Athlon XP 1800+ and dvd is choppy with a 16M TNT2 card. A good pice of easy to use DVD software is Ogle- as far as I know it is the only one that support menus. Jay On Monday 04 February 2002 10:11 am, you wrote: > TCLUGers, > > I have a box that I use because I am > too cheap to buy a DVD player. While > that may change in the future, for now > I get hours of enjoyment tinkering with > it, but those hours do not come from a > neverending supply, so I ask these > questions. > > Is there a Linux distribution that is better > suited/comes with DVD playback stuff, > or is there an app that will do it for any > disto? > > The box is: > K6-2 450 > 384MB SDRAM > 4GB HDD > 16X DVDROM > Voodoo3 3000 w/video out > > Is this box too weak for this task? > If so, where is the weakest point, in your > opinion? > > It may be just too weak because it > does work under w98se and w2kp, > but video is choppy (moreso under > w2kp). > > Any advice for easy DVD playback > (so my wife can use it too) would be > appreciated. > > Thank you in advance, > > Troy > > > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, > Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list