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Re: VLC for Fremantle?

Quote:

Originally Posted by joppu (Post 331230)

Urgh, I can only hope MPlayer will get more optimizations. If not, I don't care since not using VLC is a matter of principle. :)

what principle?

Re: VLC for Fremantle?

Quote:

Originally Posted by edgar2 (Post 331250)

what principle?

My own principle.

for reference:

http://joppu.servut.us/HOW_TO_CCCP.htm

Re: VLC for Fremantle?

That rant, from what I can pick out from between the inside jokes and technical jargon, seems to be about bad encoding practices among video pirates. The player isn't to blame for the artifacts created by bad encoding.

Re: VLC for Fremantle?

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Originally Posted by qole (Post 331649)

It's about the fact that (earlier versions of, pre 0.9) VLC were incapable of showing styled subtitles and the codec support for MPEG-4 codecs like h.264 were horrid. Since a lot of foolish people used VLC instead of farly superior codecs or media players, encoders were forced to use inferior subtitling and older less efficient codecs with worse compression ratio that lead to lower bitrates and quality decrease. VLC is also noterious for laggy playback, pixelating artefacts when skipping frames and blurry postprocessing

I don't know if they have fixed any of this yet, but it seems that they have made some groundbreaking new features like instant pause in the latest 1.0 release, who could have dreamed of that!?

But I'm not touching VLC again anytime soon.

[/rant]

Re: VLC for Fremantle?

Now I just have to figure out how to hook up my DVD without USB host mode.

Re: VLC for Fremantle?

For future reference...

This will display the N900 back camera's output on the screen:

Code:

cvlc -vvv v4l2:///dev/video0:chroma=YUYV:height=492:width=640

Re: VLC for Fremantle?

Mplayer and VLC use the same decoders from ffmpeg, so which one is faster is the one that's newer usually, give or take a few weeks.

Re: VLC for Fremantle?

shadowjk: true enough, but there definitely seems to be some special ffmpeg optimization for the N900 being done by Rémi Denis-Courmont, the guy getting the VLC core ready for Maemo 5.

Talking about Rémi Denis-Courmont, he's released another version of VLC. Even more optimised and now the key presses work.

He's looking for people to build a Maemo UI for VLC, however....

Re: VLC for Fremantle?

GUI mockup:
http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/805039/img/vlcguimockup.png
(I'm gonna hate myself for this)

Edit:

Whoops, forgot the task switcher...

Re: VLC for Fremantle?

Does this Rémi Denis-Courmont have plans to put VLC in the extras?
Otherwise people wont find his port....