On 07/13/2016 10:21 PM, Marcelo Atie wrote:

I use vlc-beta and vlc-codecs from official VLC repository http://download.videolan.org/SuSE/ <version>

I'm using ftp.gwdg.de-suse | Packman Repository -- A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

Anton Aylward composed on 2016-07-13 23:39 (UTC-0400):

Felix Miata wrote:

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Might help to know some specific h264 MP4 file it won't play for you that we can try, on hardware that is similar, or not.

This was one of a number of Tai Chi how-to demos I downloaded from YouTube last year. They played under 12.x and 13.1.

I've stepped though all the other mp4 and dvi files and none of them play now.

Annoyance Bignum.

On 13.2/KDE4 freshly updated, stock kernel, modesetting video driver on an Optiplex 745 with E6700@2.67GHz (Intel Q965 video), trying to play an h264 transport stream saved from a DVB receiver last year, VLC from Packman audio is fine, but the viewport stays black. Messages are an endless stream of "avcodec error: more than 5 seconds of late video -> dropping frame (computer too slow?)". MPV, never having been used before on this user login, plays same file fairly well. A 320x194 Anna Nalick "Breathe (2AM)" MP4 music video saved from I know not where 7 years ago, VLC plays OK for what it is. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

On 07/13/2016 11:22 PM, Felix Miata wrote:

Our collective memory probably isn't all that good. This is your Optiplex, yes? 750? 755? Which openSUSE I cannot remember.

yes, 755, 13.2 but with kernel_Stable and few other repositories for owncloud, darktable and such. -- A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

On 14.07.2016 11:49, Carlos E. R. wrote:

On 2016-07-14 03:39, Anton Aylward wrote:

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I'm sure we've been down this road before ...

I'm trying to pay some MP4 files,. sadly a VLC upgrade and some other - ffmpeg? - upgrades seem to have broken most of my capability to play them

I have all these packages related to vlc:

cer@Telcontar:~> rpm -qa | grep -i vlc vlc-noX-lang-2.2.4-3.8.noarch vlc-2.2.4-3.7.x86_64 phonon-backend-vlc-0.9.0-3.2.x86_64 libvlccore7-2.1.5-239.2.x86_64 vlc-gnome-2.2.4-3.7.x86_64 npapi-vlc-2.2.0-1.1.x86_64 vlc-codecs-2.2.4-3.7.x86_64 libvlccore8-2.2.4-3.7.x86_64 vlc-qt-2.2.4-3.7.x86_64 vlc-noX-2.2.4-3.7.x86_64 libvlc5-2.2.4-3.7.x86_64 cer@Telcontar:~>

And they should all come from packman. I tried to concoct a line with xargs to find that out but failed:

rpm -qa | grep -i vlc | xargs -0 rpm -qi

My vlc on leap plays a (self made) mp4 sound only and image with errors (like large pixelated and only top of the image). It was like that also on 13.2. I use dragon player for these files, works perfect. Daniel -- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Barcelona http://www.daniel-bauer.com -- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Barcelona http://www.daniel-bauer.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

* Anton Aylward [07-14-16 08:33]:

On 07/14/2016 05:49 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:

...

On 2016-07-14 03:39, Anton Aylward wrote:

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I'm sure we've been down this road before ...

I'm trying to pay some MP4 files,. sadly a VLC upgrade and some other - ffmpeg? - upgrades seem to have broken most of my capability to play them

I have all these packages related to vlc:

cer@Telcontar:~> rpm -qa | grep -i vlc vlc-noX-lang-2.2.4-3.8.noarch vlc-2.2.4-3.7.x86_64 phonon-backend-vlc-0.9.0-3.2.x86_64 libvlccore7-2.1.5-239.2.x86_64 vlc-gnome-2.2.4-3.7.x86_64 npapi-vlc-2.2.0-1.1.x86_64 vlc-codecs-2.2.4-3.7.x86_64 libvlccore8-2.2.4-3.7.x86_64 vlc-qt-2.2.4-3.7.x86_64 vlc-noX-2.2.4-3.7.x86_64 libvlc5-2.2.4-3.7.x86_64 cer@Telcontar:~>

And they should all come from packman. I tried to concoct a line with xargs to find that out but failed:

rpm -qa | grep -i vlc | xargs -0 rpm -qi

Well that's easy enough

ZZ=" " for i in $(rpm -qa | grep -i vlc) do ZZ="$ZZ $i" done

Now you've got the whole list to play with.

Why I try to zypper in that list I get

Package 'libvlc5-2.2.4-3.7.x86_64' not found. Package 'libvlccore7-2.1.5-239.2.x86_64' not found. Package 'libvlccore8-2.2.4-3.7.x86_64' not found. Package 'vlc-2.2.4-3.7.x86_64' not found. Package 'vlc-codecs-2.2.4-3.7.x86_64' not found. Package 'vlc-gnome-2.2.4-3.7.x86_64' not found. Package 'vlc-noX-2.2.4-3.7.x86_64' not found. Package 'vlc-noX-lang-2.2.4-3.8.noarch' not found. Package 'vlc-qt-2.2.4-3.7.x86_64' not found. Resolving package dependencies...

The following 2 NEW packages are going to be installed: npapi-vlc phonon-backend-vlc

After that i now get

# rpm -qa | grep -i vlc libvlc5-2.2.4-3.2.x86_64 libvlc6-3.0.0+git7892-1.8.x86_64 npapi-vlc-2.2.0-1.1.x86_64 vlc-qt-2.2.4-3.2.x86_64 vlc-gnome-2.2.4-3.2.x86_64 libvlccore9-3.0.0+git7892-1.8.x86_64 phonon-backend-vlc-0.9.0-3.2.x86_64 vlc-codecs-2.2.4-3.2.x86_64 vlc-noX-2.2.4-3.2.x86_64 vlc-2.2.4-3.2.x86_64 libvlccore8-2.2.4-3.2.x86_64

I'm of the opinion I don't need BOTh liblvc5 AND libvlc6 but

# zypper remove libvlc5-2.2.4-3.2.x86_64 Loading repository data... Reading installed packages... Resolving package dependencies...

The following 5 packages are going to be REMOVED: libvlc5 npapi-vlc phonon-backend-vlc vlc vlc-noX

But vlc6 alone doesn't require anything else to be removed.

* KMplayer comes up but doesn't start playing * kaffine comes up and runs into a segmentation fault immediately * QtAv comes up and reports 'no codec could be found for 'aac' * Dragon comes up but doesn't play * Xine flashes to the screen and dissapears * Mplayer produces audio but no video and no error messages * bangarang complain about the absence of a semantic desktop and eos nothing else.

Just a guess but seeing I don't have vlc(6) in any instance available for my tw, try removing all vlc(6) from your system. vlc(5) does fine for me, libvlc5. -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://linuxcounter.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

On 2016-07-14 14:30, Anton Aylward wrote:

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And they should all come from packman. I tried to concoct a line with xargs to find that out but failed:

rpm -qa | grep -i vlc | xargs -0 rpm -qi

Well that's easy enough

ZZ=" " for i in $(rpm -qa | grep -i vlc) do ZZ="$ZZ $i" done

Ah, yes.

Now you've got the whole list to play with.

Why I try to zypper in that list I get

My intention was solely to enquire from rpm if what I or you have comes from packman.

Package 'libvlc5-2.2.4-3.7.x86_64' not found.

Well, of course, your versions would be different. I use 13.1. To run install you would have to strip the version numbers off the strings. For some reason I forget, I have both vlc 5 and 6 libraries.

I'm of the opinion I don't need BOTh liblvc5 AND libvlc6 but

I agree.

# zypper remove libvlc5-2.2.4-3.2.x86_64 Loading repository data... Reading installed packages... Resolving package dependencies...

The following 5 packages are going to be REMOVED: libvlc5 npapi-vlc phonon-backend-vlc vlc vlc-noX

But vlc6 alone doesn't require anything else to be removed.

And probably vlc doesn't work, either.

* KMplayer comes up but doesn't start playing * kaffine comes up and runs into a segmentation fault immediately * QtAv comes up and reports 'no codec could be found for 'aac' * Dragon comes up but doesn't play * Xine flashes to the screen and dissapears * Mplayer produces audio but no video and no error messages * bangarang complain about the absence of a semantic desktop and eos nothing else.

All? How rare. fastcpu at openmailbox.org mentioned removing perhaps vaapi-intel-driver. You could try. Before that, try "vainfo" on an xterm. Maybe it says something interesting. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)

Hello, On Thu, 14 Jul 2016, Carlos E. R. wrote:

And they should all come from packman. I tried to concoct a line with xargs to find that out but failed:

rpm -qa | grep -i vlc | xargs -0 rpm -qi

Easy peasy, rpm can do that (aside from cosmetics) all by itself: rpm --queryformat '%{name}-%{version}-%{release}\t%{distribution}\n' \ -qa '*vlc*|*libav*|ffmpeg' | grep -v 'avahi\|avc13' | sort (one line). HTH, -dnh -- Alex Buell: Or how about a Penguin logo painted in really really trippy colours, and emblazoned with the word LSD. :o) Geert Uytterhoeven: We already had that one, but unfortunately Russell King fixed that nasty palette bug in drivers/video/fbcon.c :-) -- linux-kernel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

On 07/14/2016 03:19 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:

On 2016-07-14 15:48, Anton Aylward wrote:

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How about I make that "any and all of the video tools" rather than "vlc" and 'any and all of the video format files".

That's what we call "switch system packages to packman". YaST, repo view, go to packman, blue line at top of package list. Review what it wants to do, maybe someone you do not want. Or "zypper dup -from packman" (not the exact line, mind).

Done. While pile of 'change vendor' most of which are also downgrades. But STILL, vlc announces Codec not supported: VLC could not decode the format "mp4a" (MPEG AAC Audio) Codec not supported: VLC could not decode the format "h264" (H264 - MPEG-4 AVC (part 10)) -- A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

On 15/07/2016 01:02, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

* Anton Aylward [07-14-16 18:46]:

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On 07/14/2016 03:19 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:

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How about I make that "any and all of the video tools" rather than "vlc" and 'any and all of the video format files". That's what we call "switch system packages to packman". YaST, repo view, go to packman, blue line at top of package list. Review what it wants to do, maybe someone you do not want. Or "zypper dup -from

On 2016-07-14 15:48, Anton Aylward wrote: packman" (not the exact line, mind).

Done. While pile of 'change vendor' most of which are also downgrades.

But STILL, vlc announces

Codec not supported: VLC could not decode the format "mp4a" (MPEG AAC Audio) Codec not supported: VLC could not decode the format "h264" (H264 - MPEG-4 AVC (part 10))

vlc --version VLC media player 2.2.4 Weatherwax (revision 2.2.4) VLC version 2.2.4 Weatherwax (2.2.4) Compiled by abuild on obs-build (Jun 21 2016 09:12) Compiler: gcc version 5.3.1 20160412 [gcc-5-branch revision 234894] (SUSE Linux) This program comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. You may redistribute it under the terms of the GNU General Public License; see the file named COPYING for details. Written by the VideoLAN team; see the AUTHORS file.

what do you see

and rpm -qa *codec*

vlc-codecs-2.2.4-3.1.x86_64 libavcodec57-3.1.1-82.2.x86_64 libgstcodecparsers-1_0-0-1.8.2-113.1.x86_64 k3b-codecs-2.9.90+git20160111.2358-11.7.x86_64 libavcodec56-2.8.20160302.f9f9f31-1.13.x86_64 libxine2-codecs-1.2.6-102.3.x86_64

You need to execute rpm -q --requires vlc-codecs to see which libavcodec vlc uses, vlc only builds against libavcodec56 but vlc-beta uses libavcodec57. If one of the two libavcodec packages isn't from Packman then you will have problems playing certain (most) video and audio files. Dave P -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

On 08/06/2016 02:37 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:

Try "xine".

Nope, that plays files, still menu problems with DVD and that's back to the "dark" in scenes with shadow. Full daylight "on the street" is colourful, but any shadow detail just blacks out; Supposed night shits, many interiors and just too dark to show anything but the bright lights, the flicker of flames and the flash of gunshots. -- A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

On 07/08/2016 03:28, Anton Aylward wrote:

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Try "xine". Nope, that plays files, still menu problems with DVD and that's back to

On 08/06/2016 02:37 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote: the "dark" in scenes with shadow. Full daylight "on the street" is colourful, but any shadow detail just blacks out; Supposed night shits, many interiors and just too dark to show anything but the bright lights, the flicker of flames and the flash of gunshots.

Interesting, kaffeine uses xine as a backend. I use xine as my primary video player in Leap:42.1 and it seems to work properly with me but I have the latest build installed. What does "rpm -qi libxine2" say? Dave P -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

On 07/08/2016 15:52, Anton Aylward wrote:

On 08/07/2016 03:52 AM, Dave Plater wrote:

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rpm -qi libxine2 Name : libxine2 Version : 1.2.6 Release : 106.1 Architecture: x86_64 Install Date: Fri 29 Jul 2016 08:38:43 AM EDT Group : Productivity/Multimedia/Video/Players Size : 5864663 License : GPL-2.0+ Signature : RSA/SHA1, Sun 24 Jul 2016 02:25:38 PM EDT, Key ID 45a1d0671abd1afb Source RPM : xine-lib-1.2.6-106.1.src.rpm Build Date : Sun 24 Jul 2016 01:43:13 PM EDT Build Host : swkj14 Relocations : (not relocatable) Packager : packman@links2linux.de Vendor : http://packman.links2linux.de URL : http://www.xine-project.org/home Summary : Video Player with Plug-Ins Description : xine is a video player with a graphical front-end that supports a large number of file formats (VCD and MPEG2, for example) using plug-ins. Several plug-ins are included. Others can be installed after xine installation. xine supports stereo sound using OSS and AC5.1 using Alsa.

That looks close enough to my version, have you tried ffplay from ffmpeg. On the command line ffplay moviename. Depending on the codec and container all of the video players use ffmpeg libs for playing movies at least some of the time and mplayer is pure ffmpeg. The video from the decoded stream is handled differently by different players. What video card do you use? I'm using intel atm i3-2120 sandy bridge but AFAICR there wasn't any difference before I pulled out my GT620 card because of early Leap:42.1 problems. I must put it back in and see when I get a work break. Dave P -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

On 07/08/2016 23:38, Anton Aylward wrote:

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That looks close enough to my version, have you tried ffplay from ffmpeg. On the command line ffplay moviename. OK, did that without any options and the very first thing I noticed is

On 08/07/2016 01:32 PM, Dave Plater wrote: that the 'dark scenes' (for example in Blade Runner) are much .... lighter. Or is it brighter. All the shadow detail that was black in other layers is not visible. There's a trerm for this, isn't there, the something-gradient?

So that settles the matter, its NOT my hardware, card or monitor, it is the application or at least the application settings/paramters.

If ffplay can do this without any tweeking, what does it say about the others!

But I miss having a clear menu bar for controls. keyboard controls require memory and differ between application.

How do I get to to play the DVD with the on screen menu DVDs have?

...

Depending on the codec and container all of the video players use ffmpeg libs for playing movies at least some of the time and mplayer is pure ffmpeg. The video from the decoded stream is handled differently by different players.

...

What video card do you use? The

# lspci | grep -i vga 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82Q35 Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)

on the motherboard.

I would really like to get to the bottom of this problem, I've installed vlc-beta and noticed that it didn't uninstall vlc-codecs and has a conflict with /usr/lib64/vlc/plugins/video_filter/libpostproc_plugin.so from the codecs package. Do you still have vlc-codecs installed? After accepting the conflict I still have left over from vlc-codecs : -/usr/lib64/vlc/libvlc_vdpau.so.0 -/usr/lib64/vlc/libvlc_vdpau.so.0.0.0 -/usr/lib64/vlc/plugins/audio_filter/libmpgatofixed32_plugin.so -/usr/lib64/vlc/plugins/codec/libgstdecode_plugin.so -/usr/lib64/vlc/plugins/codec/libshine_plugin.so -/usr/lib64/vlc/plugins/demux/libhevc_plugin.so These may be used by vlc-beta with unknown results because of being built against other libraries. Maybe you can try purging your system of everything vlc and then reinstalling, meanwhile I'll fix the vlc-beta installation problem but that will most probably take a while. I'd also like to fix the xine-lib issue but I'm rather busy this week can you file a bug against xine-lib with the relevant information, a link to this thread and assign it to davejplater@gmail.com - user plater Dave P -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

On 08/08/2016 14:07, Anton Aylward wrote:

On 08/08/2016 03:05 AM, Dave Plater wrote:

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Maybe you can try purging your system of everything vlc and then reinstalling Yes I did that and reinstalled using the directive to make it happen ONLY from packman :-)

I dropped in my HHGTTG DVD and VLC lets the mouse select the on-screen TV style menu and i get subtitles. That's as far as I tested before I went to bed.

I'll try a few more later today and report.

I tried vlc-beta this morning and it played a dvd that I made earlier also tested it with a selection of different encoded movies mkv, mp4 and avi containers with mpeg4, hevc (x265) and x264 with no problems. The video looked identical to what it displays like in xine and kaffeine. Two problems I observed in vlc-beta was the video didn't fill the window and just sat in left bottom corner until I double clicked for full screen and the dvd's menu was scrambled, the menu items were not in the proper order and the selection didn't follow the mouse properly. Sorry this thread is long and you may have already mentioned it but what distribution are you running, I use Leap:42.1 also what is the output of "zypper se -si libav" ? Regards Dave P -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

On 2016-08-09 13:54, Anton Aylward wrote:

When it stops playing the machine freezes, locks up. The mouse pointer doesn't move, control keys dont work, I can't hot key to the VTs, escape key does nothing, cat-walking the keyboard does nothing, the three finger magic keys to restart X or to reboot don't work. I have to power cycle to reboot. Yes I've verified this behaviour with a number of DVDs.

ssh from another machine in advance. If you don't have another computer, it is possible to do with a tablet. If the ssh session doesn't lock, you can kill graphics. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)

On 08/07/2016 07:38 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:

On 2016-08-07 03:28, Anton Aylward wrote:

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On 08/06/2016 02:37 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:

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Try "xine".

Nope, that plays files,

Xine plays full DVDs, you just have to click on a different button. If I remember correctly, there were two.

Mine crashes, by the way.

Ah, yes, I should have said ... It plays file OK. It doesn't play DVDs, as you noted :-)

Well, try vlc. Otherwise, rip the DVD and extract the chapters.

"There a hole in my bucket ..." song. Vlc produces a long list of what codecs it doesn't have and installing more is ... like another song about futility. See the start of this thread. Some DVDs don't seem to want to be ripped (apart). I've tried copying the ISO and loop mounting that and its back to the beginning of this cycle of futility. -- A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

On 08/07/2016 10:31 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:

On 2016-08-07 15:58, Anton Aylward wrote:

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On 08/07/2016 07:38 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:

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Well, try vlc. Otherwise, rip the DVD and extract the chapters.

"There a hole in my bucket ..." song. Vlc produces a long list of what codecs it doesn't have and installing more is ... like another song about futility. See the start of this thread.

Just install VLC from packman, that's all.

Please review the thread. I did Its this that keeps complaining about codecs and won't display anything rpm -qi vlc Name : vlc Version : 2.2.4 Release : 3.2 Architecture: x86_64 Install Date: Wed 13 Jul 2016 11:36:34 PM EDT Group : Productivity/Multimedia/Video/Players Size : 408152 License : GPL-2.0+ and LGPL-2.1+ Signature : RSA/SHA1, Thu 23 Jun 2016 04:25:45 PM EDT, Key ID 45a1d0671abd1afb Source RPM : vlc-2.2.4-3.2.src.rpm Build Date : Thu 23 Jun 2016 10:27:30 AM EDT Build Host : swkj03.site Relocations : (not relocatable) Packager : packman@links2linux.de Vendor : http://packman.links2linux.de URL : http://www.videolan.org

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Some DVDs don't seem to want to be ripped (apart). I've tried copying the ISO and loop mounting that and its back to the beginning of this cycle of futility.

No, that doesn't work. You have to use a tool, like HandBrake. Again, from packman.

Information for package handbrake-gtk: -------------------------------------- Repository: Packman Repository Name: handbrake-gtk Version: 0.10.5-1.39 Arch: x86_64 Vendor: http://packman.links2linux.de Installed: Yes Status: up-to-date Installed Size: 9.5 MiB Summary: Multithreaded Video Transcoder Believe me, there are some DVDs that handbrake won't rip but that SMplayer will play as DVD. -- A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

Anton Aylward composed on 2016-08-06 12:28 (UTC-0400):

Well I still haven't got VLC to play my DVDs or YouTube downloads...

I'm trying tom play a DVD. If I fire it up with SMplayer the colours and brightness seem OK, but I'm stuck on the menu screen. Despite having set the appropriate config, mouse clicking on the "play" main on-screen menu doesn't work. I can't get past that point, can't get SMplayer to play the main movie.

This is disappointing, SMplayer renders the things I've downloaded from Youtube very well.

I can get kaffine to play the movie on the DVD. It just works its way though everything on the DVD and I merely have to wait for the movie to come round.

However with Kaffine the movie itself is very dark. I've tried adjusting my monitor settings and my X11 settings to no avail, even to the point o making other applications unusable from what amounts to 'whiteout'. But the movie in kaffine stays flat.

I'm at a loss how to proceed.

How about booting live Leap or TW media and installing VLC. Is the disappointment the same? I booted an Optiplex 620 (945G Lakeport; DDR2-533) 3.0GHz P4 to 13.2/KDE4 with stock 32-bit kernel. VLC 2.2.4 only plays audio. Video displays the first frame of H264 HD indefinitely. With SD it occasionally switches to a later frame, maybe about every 3 seconds at best. Youtube in Firefox does a fair job with frame advance, glitchy but watchable, though source typically stinks. In an Optiplex 745 (Q965 Broadwater; DDR2-667) 2.67GHz C2D in 13.2/KDE4 with stock 64-bit kernel, VLC 2.2.4 plays lower quality SD passably, but gets audio and video out of sync with better. It does the same thing with HD as the 620. (your Optiplex 755/Q35 Bearlake) In an Optiplex 760 (Series 4/Q43 Eaglelake; DDR2-800) 3.0GHz E8400 C2D in 13.2/KDE4 with stock 64-bit kernel, VLC 2.2.4 tries to play a high bitrate 720p MPEG4 recorded from a Fox DVB satellite feed, but there's too much blocking to watch and too much audio dropout. Whether the problem is decoding, or the original recording is wanting I don't know. SD is good. Modest bitrate H264 4:2:0 MPEG4 1080 (syndicated Big Bang Theory episode from DVB satellite feed) isn't bad, and colors seem right. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_chipsets the 760 is the first Optiplex with the GMA X4500, which is the earliest Intel gfx to decode H264 in hardware instead of software. IOW, your 755 doesn't seem to have quite enough HP for all types of HD video, so might easily be adversely impacted by something changed in the VLC software, or in the driver stack. Which libva* packages do you have installed? Could https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/intel_graphics#H.264_decoding_on_GMA_45... be providing a confirming clue? Maybe what you need is to put something in the X16 PCIe slot? -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org