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