I'm not home right now to test  this but to install it would I:
apt-get install  gkrellm
?

:-)~MIKE~(-:


On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 5:09 PM, Michael Butash <michael@butash.net> wrote:

>  Sounds like a codec error, or your cpu can't handle it.  Install and run
> gkrellm, watch your cpu when it plays, see if it spikes or plateaus.
>
> What encoding are your videos?
>
> Does gstreamer/totem work ok?
>
> What video card do you have (ie. hardware decode support)?
>
> VLC and gstreamer-based front-ends work way different I find, each with
> varying reliability in certain codecs.
>
> -mb
>
>
>
> On 12/24/2013 10:55 AM, Michael Havens wrote:
>
>  'VLC media player 2.0.8 Twoflower' is the version installed currently.
> When I try to play videos I recorded it starts and slows to a stop in a
> second. Is there a more current version of vlc I could install to see if
> that fixes it? what is the ppa to do so?
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
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