Re: MPV results

2021-07-25 Thread RVP
On Sat, 24 Jul 2021, Todd Gruhn wrote: '--fs' gives a window that fills the entire screen. It still does not fix the problem: I have a window that fills the entire screen -- but the video/picture is a slice in the middle of the window with a black top and a black bottom. I beleiv I fixed that i

Re: MPV results

2021-07-25 Thread Todd Gruhn
tlarond: "I'm a freak" -- not if the economy or China does as I expect. Even ones entertainment needs to be backed up. On Sun, Jul 25, 2021 at 2:10 PM wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 25, 2021 at 10:40:08AM -0700, Michael Cheponis wrote: > > VLC on non-NetBSD machines sometimes operates this way (stutterin

Re: MPV results

2021-07-25 Thread tlaronde
On Sun, Jul 25, 2021 at 10:40:08AM -0700, Michael Cheponis wrote: > VLC on non-NetBSD machines sometimes operates this way (stuttering / > freezing) so much so that I now use AnyDVD on Windows, which seems to have > taken the VLC codebase and fixed lots of things. > FWIW, I'm not a multimedia fan

Re: MPV results

2021-07-25 Thread Michael Cheponis
VLC on non-NetBSD machines sometimes operates this way (stuttering / freezing) so much so that I now use AnyDVD on Windows, which seems to have taken the VLC codebase and fixed lots of things. By the way, an excellent intro to digital video is https://xiph.org/video/ Episode 1. On Sun, Jul 25, 20

Re: MPV results

2021-07-25 Thread Todd Gruhn
As much as I hate the command-line inteface of MPV -- I am quite convinced that it is superior to VLC, now... On Sun, Jul 25, 2021 at 11:26 AM Rhialto wrote: > > On Sat 24 Jul 2021 at 22:15:45 -0400, Todd Gruhn wrote: > > I attached a copy of some errors I noticed. Some of them may have repeated

Re: MPV results

2021-07-25 Thread Rhialto
On Sat 24 Jul 2021 at 22:15:45 -0400, Todd Gruhn wrote: > I attached a copy of some errors I noticed. Some of them may have repeated > 10,000x of more. I dont know if it means anything. My guess is that it is just a sloppily mastered dvd, which doesn't quite conform to the specifications. Maybe th

MPV results

2021-07-24 Thread Todd Gruhn
I watched War of the Worlds starring Tom Cruise. It freezes terribly when viewed with VLC. It froze several times under MPV -- but it was hard th notice. WHY? What is MPV doing that it gives results SO MUCH BETTER than VLC? I attached a copy of some errors I noticed. Some of them may have repea