Thanks for the observations re: totem and video playback; I'm trying to play
video dvds on Trisquel 6.0, with an Asus netbook and external usb optical
drive. When using vlc, I get very chopped audio. With mplayer, I get audio
with a strange buzzy artifact. I cannot get past the menus
I've now tried both MPlayer (but not yet SMPlayer) and VLC to watch DVDs.
VLC doesn't work very well for me because when I pause it continues playing
audio for a few seconds, and when I unpause it's out of sync for a while.
Also, VLC doesn't have very good keyboard or media-key playback
On 21/08/2013 06:17 AM, vir...@hotmail.com wrote:
I've been watching DVDs using Trisquel a whole lot lately. I'm using
Totem (and sometimes other players) to play them back, and I've
noticed if I ever pause or rewind, my optical drive spins down and
doesn't start back up again until playback
@lembas: what is the point in replying when one has nothing to reply ? ;)
/me seriously asking...
@EricxDu:
totem does not exactly have the best reputation as media player. I also
usually use either SMPlayer or VLC. They both provide sufficient buffering to
get a got experience when playing
Thanks, sachin, for the suggestion of SMPlayer. I've looked for such options
in Totem and don't think there are any at all.
Darksoul71: thanks for the info and two reasons I might be having this
problem. I'll definitely give SMPlayer and/or VLC a go, and see if my optical
drive has slow
I just did a quick check and realized that MPlayer (which SMPlayer is a
front-end to) and VLC don't depend on the GStreamer plugin, which is what
Totem is based on. Perhaps GStreamer is what doesn't buffer well (and perhaps
that's what I should try to configure if I wanted to continue using
AFAIK GStreamer is a multimedia framework / backend to make developing AV
applications easier. Both mplayer and VLC share libav for decoding videos.
I just mentioned that totem does not exactly have a good reputation because I
have seen several complaints in various message boards about
I've been watching DVDs using Trisquel a whole lot lately. I'm using Totem
(and sometimes other players) to play them back, and I've noticed if I ever
pause or rewind, my optical drive spins down and doesn't start back up again
until playback reaches the end of the buffer. This causes
Don't watch DVDs so don't have any experience.
Maybe one could use hdparm as a workaround. But don't destroy your system
with it! :)
