DVD reader fails, VLC succeeds

Hello there,
I found no topic in direct relation with this. I have an iBook G4 with its Radeon Mobility 9200. The system is up to date (10.4.7) When I play DVD such as commercial movies, DVD reader app (last version) make it scratchy, slow, as if the machine itself were ready to die. But when I play it with VLC, it works fine.
As VLC doesn't need hardware acceleration, I suspect it's a problem with the video card. But no other app reacts like this. So again I suspect the GPU driver to be faulty.
Has anyone already met this trouble?
Any idea to fix this?
Yours,
Fabinho

Hello etresoft,
I can hear that. But still I am not convinced : I do not say that VLC is better than DVD Player, I say DVD Player should just run the DVD playback. It does not. Maybe when I can copare both on this very machine I can tell you "heh this one runs better than that one", but I can't understand that a stock app from Apple just doesn't do the job. Be it a good or a poor job, I need a job to be done.
Yours,
Fabinho

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