On 29/09/2018 14.58, Dave Howorth wrote:
On Sat, 29 Sep 2018 12:28:44 -0400 "Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@gmx.es> wrote:
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 just press the faster/slower buttons. Up to 4x faster, it still includes audio; above that it is silent.
Oh. No, I thought it could change the speed a tiny percent, like going 1% faster or so. MythTV could do that.
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.
But vlc does not?
Mostly it uses its own engine, I understand. Do "rpm -qR vlc" and you will see.
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.
Well, gstreamer itself and both gstreamer-plugins-base and gstreamer-plugins-good are only available from openSUSE according to YaST. I agree there are some plugins that are available from packman: gstreamer-plugins-bad, gstreamer-plugins-av and gstreamer-plugins-ugly
Those are the "requires", plugins are not "required". Also requiring to install things from packman when some people or organizations may have doubts about legality maybe is not the right thing to do. You may choose to buy the other gstreamer stack. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE 15.0 (Legolas))