On Wed, 2026-01-28 at 08:05 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: > I would have thought I have the codecs already installed as I can get > the Blu-ray to play in VLC now after installing everything necessary > to rectify what it said was missing,
As a point in general, different players don't all use the same codecs. VLC was often able to play things that other's couldn't. I have a few players installed, and for general double-clicking on some video file to see what it is, I'll use "mpv" (a small application, it loads just one file, with a minimal interface on the screen). If I want to play a stack of files in a playlist, I'll use VLC. > but playing the disc in VLC produces artifacts on the screen through > the video and vertical bars all across the border between the video > and the black bars. Which could be as simply as a bottleneck in how fast it can stream data to it. You could try increasing the buffer size. There'll be a delay before it starts playing as it fills the buffer more than before, but it has a larger buffer to play though any hiccups. It could also be that something else is taxing your system, and VLC is having to wait for its turn too much. > The other thing I've noticed is if I run Kodi windowed instead of > fullscreen it starts with its window sized to the physical dimensions > of the monitor (4K) and when it hangs I can't use ctrl+tab to switch > to windows behind it and the mouse point won't move, but if I run say > konsole half screen and Kodi half screen when Kodi hangs I can get to > the konsole window to kill Kodi. Such hangs could be a video card issue (drivers for it, the card itself [faults, cooling], or that the card need re-seating in the motherboard socket). Or how the graphic card is made available to the emulator. > I'm only trying Kodi because I found a net article that said Kodi > could play Bu-ray movies. What I haven't done yet is install and try > Kodi under windows, but under windows the version of Laewo that > struggles with playing the Blu-ray under Wine plays the same Blu-rays > without any issue at all using the same USB Blu-ray device. Running an application directly is Linux ought to give it the best chance at working properly. Running Windows programs through an emulator brings a set of baggage with it. How compatible is it, how well does the emulator support it? Can the emulator run quick enough? Is there a bottleneck in passing data through into the emulator and out again? How well is graphics supported? Does the emulator get direct access to an optical disc, or does it pass through Linux and then get piped into the emulator? Personally I haven't run emulators for eons. I moved to Linux to get away from other OSs, entirely. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 4 14:43:51 UTC 2024 x86_64 (yes, this is the output from uname for this PC when I posted) Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/infra/tickets/issues/new
