On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 13:19 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Thursday 19 February 2009 12:29:54 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 10:57 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > On Thursday 19 February 2009 09:23:07 Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 8:17 AM, Anne Wilson
> > > > <cannewilson(a)googlemail.com>
> > >
> > > wrote:
> > > > > What is the status of kaffeine in relation to KDE4? Does
anyone
> > > > > know whether it is a porting work-in-progress, or whether the
> > > > > current KDE3 version is the end of the line? I no longer like
> > > > > amarok, and find kaffeine suits me well enough, but I'm
concerned
> > > > > that KDE3 apps like this will just fade away.
> > > > >
> > > > > Any comfort in sight?
> > > > >
> > > > > Anne
> > > >
> > > > On the bright side, VLC is Qt now.
> > >
> > > I know VLC is well regarded, but I never got on well with it :-(
> > > Perhaps it is time to try it again.
> >
> > VLC is my first-choice video player (I use Amarok for audio) but lately
> > it's been giving very choppy performance, especially at the start of
> > videos (both .avi and .iso). I'm using PulseAudio and everything else
> > seems to work. The same videos work fine in Mplayer.
>
> I haven't tried it before for video, but for audio it is unbearably
> horrible, stuttering all over the place. DragonPlayer is so much better.
> Out of curiosity I just fed the sme VOB from a camcorder recording to
> each of the apps I have installed. DragonPlayer was the only one to play
> it without stuttering. VLC was the worst.
>
> Anne
Even w/o Pulse VLC shutters when showing video.
Something bad happened to it when they switched to qt :(
- Gilboa
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Ever since the kernel became 'tickless' I have problems with MPlayer and vlc.
Something with the timings I suppose. In fedora 7.2 everything was very
smooth.
Martin Kho