On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 09:34:29AM +0200, [email protected] wrote: > hi there > > > > For me, the main problem is that it cannot sensibly play encoded > > DVDs [ they play in bursts ]. When I first noticed this, my machine > > Same here. > > When this started happening (don't remember exactly, but I seem to > recall somewhere soon after 2.0 or so) I did convince myself that I was > doing some mistake somewhere, but your report points to some more > general issue (still unknown to me, though) > > > For local videos, vlc works adequately [ albeit the sound is often > > too loud ;-) ] > > Same: I can add that downloading a dvd onto disk (w/dvdbackup) and > playing it w/ vlc works fine: this makes me think that the problem is in > the handling of the physical dvd drive itself. >
I've got a DVD which I copied to a .vob file (I can't remember exactly how I copied it, but probably using ffmpeg), and that too only plays in bursts of 4 or 5 seconds. > > My 5 cents: after vlc started misbehaving, I switched to mplayer which, > AFAICS, works just fine for me > > ciao > gabriele Thanks for those comments. I'm happy using xine as the player. But I seem to have a full AV set of packages, and I began to wonder if I need all of them. It isn't the build time, it's the time to test everything after major toolchain upgrades ;-) ĸen -- Nanny Ogg usually went to bed early. After all, she was an old lady. Sometimes she went to bed as early as 6 a.m. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
