More on usability issues, was Re: [linux-audio-user] VST Plugins Revisited (Again)

[The Other]

On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 17:24:59 -0500, Dave Phillips <dlphillips at woh.rr.com>  
wrote:
> Yep, that's another one. God only knows why xine sometimes simply spins  
> out of control, leaving me with a frozen machine. Thankfully it happens  
> less with audio apps, but I like watching DVDs on Linux and I don't like  
> to worry about whether I'm going to make it to the end of the movie  
> without a major lock-up. It doesn't happen very often, and it's easy  
> enough to reboot but it's damnably tough to debug.

Pentium II 350MHz with 128Mb RAM can run VLC (Video Lan Client) for DVDs  
very well.  A few dropped frames, but no lock-up.  I'm using the DeMuDi  
kernel.

Stephen.