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Ok, i tried running the x264 movies on my Athlon X2 4200 cpu with windows. They actually use quite alot of cpu-power to decode. So that solves the mystery with high cpu-usage under linux (thought it might be a bug). Just out of curiosity - why does it use so much? :) I am still concerned about the q...

Well, trunk is broken since a few hours...

I downloaded the packages last night

Thanks for the tip! It compiled now. And i actually got to play one of the mkv movies - the dvd one. However! The quality of this video was not impressive compared to the quality i get in windows. The linux picture is somewhat... blocky :) Not big blocks but you can see the border and edges of stuff...

I have followed the instructions on compiling VLC and ffmpeg, but for some reason i cant compile the player. The only thing i did different from the instructions was to use --disable-jack instead of --enable-jack when configuring VLC (for some reason it gave errors when it was --enable). Here is wha...

And for some reason my the CPU usage goes to 100% when viewing thoose two files. I can watch all other types of movies with no problems CPU time wise.

I am playing theese files from a mounted network drive with -ro options.

-vvv output from startup: VLC media player 0.8.6 Janus [00000001] main private debug: checking builtin modules [00000001] main private debug: checking plugin modules [00000001] main private debug: loading plugins cache file /home/media/.vlc/cache/plugins-04041e.dat [00000001] main private debug: rec...

Hello! Im currently trying to playback a matroska file containing a H264 video, but for some reason VLC only plays back like 1-2 sec of the video and then stops. I can provide all the info you need, but i don't really know what info is needed to help me :D But heres some: Tried two different mkv fil...