On 29/09/2018 12.11, Dave Howorth wrote:
I bought a TV card recently and consequently have become more interested in the capabilities of video players than I was.
By default I have tended to use VLC because I like it's interface and it's capability to play videos at faster than normal speeds whilst still producing intelligible audio (good for watching documentaries, I find).
Oh, I'm interested in that. How do you trigger that behaviour?
I've also now noticed that I have totem from the openSUSE OSS repository (Leap 15.0; totem 3.26.0) whilst my VLC comes from packman (3.0.2). So can anybody who understands these things explain why I apparently need to get VLC from packman whilst openSUSE can supply totem and packman don't seem to need to provide a de-crippled version? (whatever crippled means in this context - why do packman need to supply VLC?)
Because totem uses an "engine" that is already installed. Legolas:~ # rpm -qR totem /sbin/ldconfig /sbin/ldconfig gstreamer-plugins-base gstreamer-plugins-good ... It is using gstreamer, and parts or all of this may come from Packman. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE 15.0 (Legolas))