In that log, MPEG2 Video is decoded by your GPU, so there is very little to nothing that VLC can do about the performance.
Quite possibly your drivers are broken. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1544936 Title: PPC: no mpeg-2 video playback To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vlc/+bug/1544936/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs