Video skips frames

[JekylHyde]

Hi
i tried all the video players in linux mint
& in all i some frames get skipped & the video is not smooth
why is that?
in windows on the same pc its smooth

[Rubberman]

It is the video driver. What video hardware do you have, and what driver are you running?

[JekylHyde]

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT
core2dou
1gb ram

i installed the nvidia driver on xubuntu
it didn't helped

i tried to install on mint
& after restart i could go back to x environment at all

i ran this to install nvidia driver:

sudo apt-get install nvidia-current

sudo nvidia-xconfig

[Rubberman]

Well, I've never had good results with the proprietary drivers found in the repositories for Ubuntu/Mint etc. I always blacklist the nouveau driver (open source default nVidia driver for Linux) and install a driver downloaded from the nVidia web site directly for my hardware.

[JekylHyde]

Well, I've never had good results with the proprietary drivers found in the repositories for Ubuntu/Mint etc. I always blacklist the nouveau driver (open source default nVidia driver for Linux) and install a driver downloaded from the nVidia web site directly for my hardware.

when i downloaded it & tried to install - after reboot i had black screen

what i need to do exactly?

[Rubberman]

Boot into text mode (runlevel 3 on Red Hat and similar systems), and after logging in, run the startx command. If it gives errors and won't start, post them here. If it goes to a black screen again, let us know. FWIW, unless your video hardware or display are really weird, or (possible these days) you have a hybrid Intel / nVidia GPU set, then I have found that the problem has always been user error (configuration, etc). So, remove ENTIRELY, /etc/X11/xorg.conf, blacklist the nouveau driver, reinstall the nvidia driver. Then, run the command "startx". If the gui starts, then logout, and reboot. If "startx" doesn't work, post the error output here.