Postby nobody.loopback » 03 Nov 2008 13:15
Yesterday, I tried the 0.95 version.
Playback is not acceptable on my G5 Dual 2Ghz CPU. Plenty of RAM.
If move the mouse, or click somwhere, or open the prefs dialog, playback ist choppy. If I select the timeshift option, playback is choppy, even If I do nothing.
Stream is a live MPEG2-TS from Satellite, average Framerate 3Mbit/s, ranging fom 1.5 to 5Mbit/s, received via multicast from the STB.
Might be still usable for News-broadcasts, but not for watching a real movie.
with 8.6.i, I can do other work, while still watching the video scaled to a factor of 2 on the second screen.
(btw.: playing a 1920x1080 MKV file on a PowerPC is impossible with any version of VLC, about 0.15fps, but that might be related to the Video Card)