hi there,
now that the sound is ON, I have tried to play a video for my daughter, but it won't work - I open gxine, open a video file (from HDD) and it starts fine, but if I make it bigger on the screen it gets jumpy and then gxine just closes without any warning. On my computer I also had similar video issues and I found that it was related to available resources and the player I was using. I have ubuntu with IceWM and idesk and I play video files with VLC and it is OK, I can make the picture bigger or do fullscreen without a problem.
the two computers are:
puppy computer:
P2 400 128meg
32meg Hercules graphics card
ubuntu computer
P2 400 256meg
64meg Nvidia graphics card
(interestingly, the screen flicker is too annoying when I run Puppy on the second machine, but no noticable flicker on the first, despite the Hercules card being a pain to find correct drivers for on every other version of linux I have tried - hence the Nvidia card)
gxine video issues
the second machine, my computer, has ubuntu on it with iceWM/idesk instead of gnome, when it still had gnome everything was a bit slow, video was jumpy, and sound-video sync was off. After I swapped to the lightweight gui the issues resolved (I sometimes use xine and it works OK too)
I could just put ubuntu on my daughters PC and configure the same as mine, but it was a labour of love getting mine to work OK, and it would be pretty hard to do with no internet for downloading all the packages I had to get. That's why puppy seems worth a try, it is already lightweight and shouldn't eat up all the CPU/ram, I am going to try installing VLC from the tar.gz file, I have always found it works really well on my old computers (even the windows version is one of the best windows based video players I have used)
To answer your question properly though - I have no video issues with the second machine anymore, but it is not running Puppy and I never bothered trying to play video on it with puppy as it had no sound (although I know how to fix that now) also, video is fine under windows98 on both computers.
I could just put ubuntu on my daughters PC and configure the same as mine, but it was a labour of love getting mine to work OK, and it would be pretty hard to do with no internet for downloading all the packages I had to get. That's why puppy seems worth a try, it is already lightweight and shouldn't eat up all the CPU/ram, I am going to try installing VLC from the tar.gz file, I have always found it works really well on my old computers (even the windows version is one of the best windows based video players I have used)
To answer your question properly though - I have no video issues with the second machine anymore, but it is not running Puppy and I never bothered trying to play video on it with puppy as it had no sound (although I know how to fix that now) also, video is fine under windows98 on both computers.