DVD Sounds to me like DMA. Which xine are you using? Have you run xine-check? Are you using SATA? John. c5050 wrote: > Does anyone have an idea why cpu usage varies constantly, from as low as > 4.X % to as high as 20+%? All that I have open at the time of running > "top" is the gnome-terminal. The reason why I'm hunting this, is that I > just can't seem to play DVD's (using Xine) without choppy playback > (sound is fine). I know my laptop is aching - running CentOS 4.4 with a > Celeron 800 and 256MB RAM (DMA's turned on), but still - I think it > should be able to play DVD's, or not? I have the feeling that the more I > can tweak CPU usage, the better my chance of success will be. Any advice > would be appreciated. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > -- John Newbigin Computer Systems Officer Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies Swinburne University of Technology Melbourne, Australia http://www.ict.swin.edu.au/staff/jnewbigin