Ken Moffat wrote:
This weekend I've been testing some of the blfs AV packages in my
gcc-6 build. Vlc mostly works well (a volume even a deaf git such
as me can hear), but I'm getting problems trying to play a DVD in
xine (an error was reported, with the implication it might be perms)
and anyway I see that xine seems to have problems playing mp4
(mostly dark) when compiled with gcc-6, and parole plays DVDs but
with a woefully inadequate volume, but that might be normal for this
new machine - in other usage, parole tends to be quiet but works
adequately.
So, trying to watch a DVD, I've gone back to vlc. I have a history
in this - my previous fast machines were AMD and vlc always
stuttered on videos (play for a few seconds, then pause). I've
asked here before, and on the vlc forum (ISTR I just got "works for
me" there), but I'm now using an intel haswell i7 with its
integrated graphics - I had assumed that ought to be "adequate".
All these trials were on my DVD of "A Fistful of Dollars" because it
happened to be handy and is worth watching IMHO. Initially, it
played for perhaps 2 or 3 seconds, paused while loading its buffer,
repeated.
I found suggestions to increase the Stream Output cache in
Tools -> Preferences (need to show All to get to this) from the
default to something larger. I tried 15000mS (15 seconds) - it will
play for about 12 seconds, then pause for a second or four whilst the
buffer refills (orange line on the bottom of the window).
I've also dropped the caching to 0 but that did not help.
Then I found a suggestion to *disable* hardware acceleration - that
is in the main part of Tools -> Preferences under Input / Codecs :
the default is 'Automatic', that was a bad idea. Of the options
there VDPAU on this machine is the best, but only gives me bursts of
12 or 13 seconds - some of the others such as 'Disable' are unusable.
So - is anyone able to play normal (encoded) DVDs in vlc on a
machine with recent intel graphics ? If so, what changes did you
make to the preferences (or did it "just work" ? - if so, which
version of LFS/BLFS and which particular hardware ?)
If I didn't need to use this stuff, I would be sorely tempted to give
up at this point.
I can try "A Fistful of Dollars" (I have that) on my development system if
you want, but that is an inexpensive Nvidia card. My LTS workstation and
laptop are intel, but I don't want to experiment with my workstation and
I'd have to start a full LFS build in the laptop.
Right now I really don't have time to do that. The updates to BLFS just
keep coming and if I let that go, they don't go away. If we had more
regular updates by multiple editors, then I could break away to try on the
i7 laptop.
-- Bruce
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