![]() ![]() * It is not memory, there are gigabytes of memory unused. * Both Xplayer and VLC are exactly the same so it is not the player. ![]() Now all videos have major stop/starts starting about 20 seconds into a video. I made a clean upgrade to Linux Mint 18 with a fresh install. I had good playback off all videos with Linux Mint 17. ![]() This seems like a pretty serious deficiency - does anyone here experience the same thing? And does anyone know why this fundamental problem (for some of us, at least) is happening? Otherwise, Mint with the Cinnamon desktop rungs great. First, I don't even know how to do that and, second, it would be great if this problem was simply resolved (on the Cinnamon desktop). One guy said to install the XFCE desktop (or something like that) and log in and log out of the thing to watch videos. There are a lot of posts about this, around the web - various people have various ideas, none of which worked for me. I have some conky widgets running on the desktop (which I did not have on Fedora nor Ubuntu Gnome), but, killing Conky doesn't help. I decided to test some other distros to see if they were the same - neither Fedora nor Ubuntu-Gnome has this sort of problem on the same PC. I am using Mint 17.2 64-bit on an older PC - an HP dc5500 with 4 gig of RAM. I have a dual-boot setup and I had to boot into XP, as the choppiness was driving us crazy - it's not extreme, but, it's bad enough to be really annoying. I have a large monitor and, the other night, my wife and were going to watch a movie on my computer. I think Linux Mint is about as good as it gets, for an average computer user, but videos (movies and other videos) are a bit choppy on playback. ![]()
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