Re: VLC cannot play MKV files?

2016-01-27 Thread Clemens Lang
On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 03:00:52PM +0100, Rainer Müller wrote: > > I think the system bsdtar doesn't support this on all OS X versions > > that do support hfs compression. > > Right, on my OS X 10.10.5 Yosemite it does not seem to be supported. In > the ticket you said it was not supported on OS

Re: VLC cannot play MKV files?

2016-01-27 Thread René J . V . Bertin
On Wednesday January 27 2016 15:00:52 Rainer Müller wrote: > Yes, it is a test, but I would not call that simple. Also, we would only > need to test this once and it could even be done during configure. Configure when MacPorts itself is being built? > afsctool is GPL-3 software, so we should

Re: VLC cannot play MKV files?

2016-01-27 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2016-01-26 18:31, René J.V. Bertin wrote: > On Tuesday January 26 2016 08:55:20 Ryan Schmidt wrote: > >> https://trac.macports.org/ticket/36560 > On 2016-01-26 18:12, Joshua Root wrote: >> Not really thrilled by the inline hex file and shelling out to run >> a > > Isn't that simply a test to

Re: VLC cannot play MKV files?

2016-01-26 Thread Vincent Habchi
>> I was under the impression that Apple already compressed the files and >> programs installed with the operating system, using HFS compression, ever >> since taking up less disk space was listed as a feature of Snow Leopard. > Yeah, I thought so too, but I also have the impression that may not

Re: VLC cannot play MKV files?

2016-01-26 Thread Chris Jones
Hi, On 26/01/16 09:47, Vincent Habchi wrote: I was under the impression that Apple already compressed the files and programs installed with the operating system, using HFS compression, ever since taking up less disk space was listed as a feature of Snow Leopard. Yeah, I thought so too, but

Re: VLC cannot play MKV files?

2016-01-26 Thread Ryan Schmidt
> On Jan 26, 2016, at 1:47 AM, Vincent Habchi wrote: > >>> I was under the impression that Apple already compressed the files and >>> programs installed with the operating system, using HFS compression, ever >>> since taking up less disk space was listed as a feature of

Re: VLC cannot play MKV files?

2016-01-26 Thread Ryan Schmidt
> On Jan 26, 2016, at 2:26 AM, René J.V. Bertin wrote: > > Given the disk savings it can give I really don't understand why the patch > that adds HFS compression to port activation was never accepted. For reference, that was this ticket:

Re: VLC cannot play MKV files?

2016-01-26 Thread Daniel J. Luke
On Jan 26, 2016, at 11:55 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > There were performance concerns earlier in the discussion but I'm not sure if > the latest version of the patch attached there resolves them. the latest comment that mentions it says it's a 2x slowdown (better than the

Re: VLC cannot play MKV files?

2016-01-26 Thread Joshua Root
On 2016-1-27 04:04 , Daniel J. Luke wrote: > On Jan 26, 2016, at 11:55 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> There were performance concerns earlier in the discussion but I'm not sure >> if the latest version of the patch attached there resolves them. > > the latest comment that

Re: VLC cannot play MKV files?

2016-01-26 Thread Daniel J. Luke
On Jan 26, 2016, at 12:12 PM, Joshua Root wrote: > Not really thrilled by the inline hex file and shelling out to run a > command pipeline before every extract either. Seems like this could be a > configure check for the system bsdtar supporting the feature instead. +1 I

Re: VLC cannot play MKV files?

2016-01-26 Thread René J . V . Bertin
On Tuesday January 26 2016 08:55:20 Ryan Schmidt wrote: >https://trac.macports.org/ticket/36560 Yeah, that was the one. >There were performance concerns earlier in the discussion but I'm not sure if >the latest version of the patch attached there resolves them. Activating hfsCompression is

Re: VLC cannot play MKV files?

2016-01-26 Thread René J . V . Bertin
On Tuesday January 26 2016 10:47:10 Vincent Habchi wrote: >I’ve applied René method, disabling SIP while compressing /Applications. It >gave me some significant savings, thus I surmise all the applications are not >compressed. Xcode is, though, but things like iWorks (Pages, etc.) are not.

Re: VLC cannot play MKV files?

2016-01-25 Thread Ryan Schmidt
> On Jan 24, 2016, at 1:42 AM, Vincent Habchi wrote: > >> Sure. And it is probably also very easy to introduce regressions that way if >> the #ifdefs aren't already in place. > > Yeah, that’s right. Every cloud has its silver lining. Or the contrary for > that matter. >

Re: VLC cannot play MKV files?

2016-01-25 Thread René J . V . Bertin
On Monday January 25 2016 19:39:26 Ryan Schmidt wrote: >I was under the impression that Apple already compressed the files and >programs installed with the operating system, using HFS compression, ever >since taking up less disk space was listed as a feature of Snow Leopard. Yeah, I thought so

Re: VLC cannot play MKV files?

2016-01-24 Thread Vincent Habchi
> This typically doesn't take a lot of space, and no compiler option will > remove the unused code in software that was meant to support different CPUs > at runtime… Except that you can use configure to detect what model of processor you’re running on, and then with a -D flag eliminate all the

Re: VLC cannot play MKV files?

2016-01-24 Thread Vincent Habchi
> Sure. And it is probably also very easy to introduce regressions that way if > the #ifdefs aren't already in place. Yeah, that’s right. Every cloud has its silver lining. Or the contrary for that matter. > It'll do the same with your /Applications directory or the entire /opt/local > tree.

Re: VLC cannot play MKV files?

2016-01-24 Thread René J . V . Bertin
On Sunday January 24 2016 09:46:03 Vincent Habchi wrote: >Except that you can use configure to detect what model of processor you’re >running on, and then with a -D flag eliminate all the code that is not >targeted for your CPU (via #ifdef/#ifndef). Sure. And it is probably also very easy to

Re: VLC cannot play MKV files?

2016-01-24 Thread René J . V . Bertin
On Sunday January 24 2016 10:42:56 Vincent Habchi wrote: > Except that it’s no longer possible to compress the build-in Applications > with OS X 10.11 since Apple introduced SIP > (http://arstechnica.com/apple/2015/09/os-x-10-11-el-capitan-the-ars-technica-review/8/#h1). > Even root cannot

Re: VLC cannot play MKV files?

2016-01-24 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 6:20 AM, René J.V. wrote: > A trip to single-user mode or into recovery mode to toggle an EFI setting, > right? csrutil {enable|disable} and reboot. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates

Re: VLC cannot play MKV files?

2016-01-23 Thread René J . V . Bertin
On Saturday January 23 2016 14:19:26 Vincent Habchi wrote: > Latest one: > > port installed | grep VLC > VLC @2.1.5_7+mod+mpc+osd+qtkit+quartz (active) That's indeed that latest one provided through MacPorts, but not the latest VLC version. I've submitted a port for 2.2.1 on Trac months ago,

Re: VLC cannot play MKV files?

2016-01-23 Thread Vincent Habchi
Hi René, > Any MKV file? What VLC version? Latest one: port installed | grep VLC VLC @2.1.5_7+mod+mpc+osd+qtkit+quartz (active) > What does the VLC log tell you (either in-app or by launching the app bundle > executable directly from a terminal, with the -vvv argument)? You will find the

Re: VLC cannot play MKV files?

2016-01-23 Thread Craig Treleaven
> On Jan 23, 2016, at 8:48 AM, Vincent Habchi wrote: >> Might I suggest that you download the latest VLC player from videolan.org >> directly, and see if that one gives the same error? If it doesn't, you can >> then probably simply uninstall the one from MacPorts. > > Yep,

Re: VLC cannot play MKV files?

2016-01-23 Thread René J . V . Bertin
On Saturday January 23 2016 12:10:54 Vincent Habchi wrote: Hi, >I’ve a strange problem with VLC. Clicking on a MKV file will not crash the >app, but it will go into a sort of infinite loop, as if it was not finding >anything to play inside the file and kept on trying again. > >ffplay with the

Re: VLC cannot play MKV files?

2016-01-23 Thread Vincent Habchi
> > That's indeed that latest one provided through MacPorts, but not the latest > VLC version. I've submitted a port for 2.2.1 on Trac months ago, but it has > never been committed. There’s a “beta” 2.2.2-20150427_3 available on MacPorts, I’ll try it and let you know. > Might I suggest that

Re: VLC cannot play MKV files?

2016-01-23 Thread Craig Treleaven
> On Jan 23, 2016, at 9:36 AM, Vincent Habchi wrote: > I compiled VLC 2.2.1 using Macports and still have the same error :( > Seems something is wrong in the MacPorts librairies, but where? ... > > VLC media player 2.2.2 Weatherwax (revision 2.2.1-21-g2502874) > … >

Re: VLC cannot play MKV files?

2016-01-23 Thread Craig Treleaven
> On Jan 23, 2016, at 12:33 PM, Vincent Habchi wrote: > >> … If you only installed those libraries for VLC then you shouldn't lose >> much. You would however have more definite proof whether your issue is due >> to something with the MacPorts build or in VLC itself. If the

Re: VLC cannot play MKV files?

2016-01-23 Thread René J . V . Bertin
On Saturday January 23 2016 14:48:56 Vincent Habchi wrote: >There’s a “beta” 2.2.2-20150427_3 available on MacPorts, I’ll try it and let >you know. Ah, not mine AFAIK. The portfile I submitted on Trac *probably* contains a VLC-devel port for 3.0.0-150503-g7385062d (my local copy does), but I

Re: VLC cannot play MKV files?

2016-01-23 Thread Vincent Habchi
> Ah, not mine AFAIK. The portfile I submitted on Trac *probably* contains a > VLC-devel port for 3.0.0-150503-g7385062d (my local copy does), but I don't > think I tried building or using that one since May last year (1505). I could have a stab at compiling it, if you want. > If you only

Re: VLC cannot play MKV files?

2016-01-23 Thread René J . V . Bertin
On Saturday January 23 2016 18:33:07 Vincent Habchi wrote: >> Ah, not mine AFAIK. The portfile I submitted on Trac *probably* contains a >> VLC-devel port for 3.0.0-150503-g7385062d (my local copy does), but I don't >> think I tried building or using that one since May last year (1505). > >I

Re: VLC cannot play MKV files?

2016-01-23 Thread Vincent Habchi
René, I compiled VLC 2.2.1 using Macports and still have the same error :( Seems something is wrong in the MacPorts librairies, but where? Cheers! — VLC media player 2.2.2 Weatherwax (revision 2.2.1-21-g2502874) [7f9f92f00378] core libvlc debug: VLC media player - 2.2.2 Weatherwax

Re: VLC cannot play MKV files?

2016-01-23 Thread Vincent Habchi
> You might want to look at the following to clean up those libraries: > > $ port info port_cutleaves […] Thanks Craig! ___ macports-dev mailing list macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev

Re: VLC cannot play MKV files?

2016-01-23 Thread Vincent Habchi
Craig: > Do other mkv files play OK? I haven’t many MKV files, all from the same source, and none plays correctly on VLC. FFPLAY has no difficulty reading them. Strange. Output of mediainfo: > mediainfo /Volumes/Archives/Vidéos/Series/MLP\ FIM\ S4/YP-7Z-04x02.mkv General Unique ID

Re: VLC cannot play MKV files?

2016-01-23 Thread Ludwig
On Sat, 23 Jan 2016, Vincent Habchi wrote: > I’ve a fairly new Mac (three-year old or so), so performance is no concern > during normal operation; however, watching a flick or a show while compiling > Qt5 can sometimes be jerky. Besides, more CPU efficiency also means less > battery drain.