On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 10:20:06PM -0400, Michael Shell wrote: > On Sat, 14 Apr 2012 23:18:32 +0100 > Ken Moffat <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Has anyone managed to play DVDs with vlc ? On my previous > > attempts, I assumed the intermittent playback was down to my old IDE > > DVD drive, but on my new machines it still shows the same behaviour, > > i.e. play a few seconds, stall, play a little more, stall, and so > > on. Interestingly, it also has the same problem if I try to play a > > VOB file from my hard drive. > > I don't have vlc installed, but a Google search suggested changing > the settings in Tools -> Preferences and Input -> Codecs > > Try enabling "Use GPU acceleration (experimental)" and also increasing > the disk buffer size (Disc caching (ms), 5000 or 20000). > > You will have to save the settings and then restart vlc for them > to have an effect. > > > Cheers, > > Mike Shell > Thanks, but the GPu acceleration checkbox is greyed-out, and I can't find anywhere to set the cache size for playback (I think I saw it earlier when trying to record, but that segfaulted). It certainly doesn't seem to be listed in the 'all' version of the preferences in the 'Input & Codecs' area of 2.0.1.
Ah - some enlightenment. I tried running it from an xterm as vlc --file-caching=10000 but that didn't help. I then tried again with a larger cache size and clicked on 'No disc menus'. That works - the intro copyright, then the first program (only). Tried again on the commandline to ply the vob from disk : with no cache set, it stalls. Setting a cache on the commandline, it doesn't play at all and 'top' shows the machine appears to be idle. No, tell a lie, I left the window open and it eventually started [ with a cache of 10000 mSec, i.e. 10 seconds ] and played for 10 seconds, then paused, resumed to 21 seconds, ... i.e. it (slowly: the file is on a local disk) fills the buffer, plays the buffer, then waits while it refills the buffer. So, thanks for the suggestions, but I'll stick to using vlc as "ffplay with controls" for transcoded files and give up trying to use the extra functions that may or may not be present. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
