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