choppy DVD playback

[carnivroar]

I don't know what the problem is.

I have the same set up as I had in my old laptop, which worked fine.

This is the new laptop.

I already downloaded all the codecs.

Also the restricted-extras package.

I'm not sure if I have a driver for my NVIDIA 650m.

Please help...

[sudodus]

I don't know what the problem is.

I have the same set up as I had in my old laptop, which worked fine.

This is the new laptop.

I already downloaded all the codecs.

Also the restricted-extras package.

I'm not sure if I have a driver for my NVIDIA 650m.

Please help...

Hi carnivroar, and welcome to the Ubuntu Forums

The computer specs indicate that it certainly has enough horsepower to show high definition video, so DVD should work.

There is probably some issue with the graphics driver.

You can check which driver is used and which are available with the terminal window command

jockey-gtk

I use older computers with nvidia cards/chips, and I have found that it works the best with the ultra-light desktop environment LXDE as in Lubuntu. But with your computer it should work well also with Unity, unless the graphics card is too new to be supported by a proprietary driver "NVIDIA's accelerated driver ..."

If available, select a proprietary driver using jockey-gtk!

If no proprietary driver is available, and you have to use nouveau, you will probably get good enough playback of video if you install lubuntu-desktop and select that at the login screen.

sudo apt-get install lubuntu-desktop

[carnivroar]

Thanks for the quick reply.

As per jockey-gtk, the only drivers I have installed is an Ethernet one.

I don't know how to install an NVIDIA driver. I did everything I could find online:

http://www.techlw.com/2012/06/instal...in-ubuntu.html

I also installed Bumblebee, which resulted in my Graphics being now shown as "Intel® Ivybridge Mobile" on the Details window. After doing that step I am now able to view shadows around windows and stuff, so that's good I guess.

But no progress with the NVIDIA chip.

[sudodus]

Does jockey-gtk should any available drivers? If this is the case, select one of them for installation (and reboot)! Otherwise, try with a less resource hungry desktop environment:

LXDE - ultra light weight - lubuntu-desktop
XFCE - light weight - xubuntu-desktop
MATE - medium weight (fork of old Gnome 2)
KDE - heavy weight and fancy - kubuntu-desktop
Unity - heavy weight and fancy - 'vanilla ubuntu desktop'

Probably within a few months, there will be a new proprietary driver, that works with your nvidia card, and you will be able to play video in the fanciest of desktop environments.

Edit: Jockey-gtk finds no suitable nvidia graphics driver. So try a lighter desktop environment. In this OS, that I am using now, I have Ubuntu 12.04 (upgraded from 10.04) and I have installed several desktops like this:

sudo apt-get install lubuntu-desktop
sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop
sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop

Right now (and most of the time) I run lubuntu-desktop 'Lubuntu', selected at the login screen.

[carnivroar]

Check out the screenshot on the post above. I don't see anything for NVIDIA.

[sudodus]

Check out the screenshot on the post above. I don't see anything for NVIDIA.

Yes, I found it out after writing, so I edited the post. Maybe you did not notice the edit note.

Anyway, I suggest that you try a lighter desktop environment

[carnivroar]

I did, I am now on Lubuntu and I have the same exact problem.

[sudodus]

Which video player are you running?

I get good results with mplayer and vlc.

sudo apt-get install vlc

mplayer should come with lubuntu, otherwise install it too.

sudo apt-get install mplayer

[sudodus]

Also you should check which programs keep the computer busy:

htop is a good tool for that (runs in a terminal window)

sudo apt-get install htop

[carnivroar]

Yes, I use VLC.

By the way, YouTube videos look perfect, if that makes a difference.

Could it still be some codec problems?