


In Cinnamon, playback with VLC was poor, but slightly different than in SMPlayer.while the audio plays normally, the video advances for a second or two, then freezes for a second or two, then advances for a second or two, rinse and repeat. In SMPlayer, playback in MATE is the same as before in Cinnamon, extremely choppy, i.e.I'm interested in that as well, and if there is a way to fix it I might give Cinnamon another shot. Sorry I don't have any tweak for Cinnamon for you, but maybe someone will chime in. In any event, your hardware should be a good deal better than what I was using, but perhaps you would also find that KDE or Mate would allow your video to play back smoother. Interestingly, running the 32bit version of KDE from a live usb also seemed to allow me to play the video back pretty smoothly as well, with CPU usage maxing in the high 90's, although it seemed to dip more. I downloaded the Mate DE for it and found that if I used Mate the video played back smoothly and CPU use tended to only max around mid-90s. This occurred with both the 32bit and 64bit versions of Petra Cinnamon. CPU would redline to 100% and stay there, and I would get video corruption and choppiness. It seemed to run ok even on the old laptop until I tried to play a 720p vid in VLC, albeit only one that was encoded to ~24fps. My first foray into Linux was to try out LM16 Cinnamon 64. It's a Turion 64 M元2 2gb RAM w/ Radeon Xpress 200M. I have an old laptop I have been fidling with and ran into a similar problem.
