Well this may sound obvious to everyone here, but I am thrilled, I can't believe how fairly good dvds are playing on a refurbished 266MHz P laptop. After replacing the oss drivers with alsa an using vesa, the audio is undistorted and the image frame rate is acceptable with: mplayer -fs -zoom -framedrop -nodouble -vo vesa -dvd 1 Only on Linux! Every one else wants > 500MHz I hear. http://well2u.com/olivier/class/linux/mplayer/mpvesa Just push the limit...