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Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 30 Apr 2007 22:42

Thanks! oh, and I see you've been using the ieSpell. :lol: [joking]


ieSpell on linux.... let me think...
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Postby CloudStalker » 30 Apr 2007 22:52


Thanks! oh, and I see you've been using the ieSpell. [joking]

ieSpell on linux.... let me think...
You do that. :lol: [joking again to use as reference later]

What's this thread about? Sorry. :oops:

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Postby DJ » 01 May 2007 00:09

I did not wanted to launch fanboyism for VLC, but some FUD is boring.
VLC forever!!! :D What's FUD? :P No seriously. :?
FUD: Fear, Uncertain, Doubt
"Fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD) is a sales or marketing strategy of disseminating negative (and vague) information on a competitor's product. The term originated to describe disinformation tactics in the computer hardware industry and has since been used more broadly. FUD is a manifestation of the appeal to fear."
That's disgusting and DESPICABLE! :shock:

There is nothing to fear but fear it self! There is nothing to fear but fear it self! There is nothing to fear but fear it self! There is nothing to fear but fear ...........................................................................>

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Postby DJ » 01 May 2007 00:18

j-b wrote:
I did not wanted to launch fanboyism for VLC, but some FUD is boring.



Also what is a fanboyism? Is this like other isms? I always considered fans for girls as fan dancing is just not for boys!
Someone who's a fan solely of one product, service, ect. Like there are fanboys of Sony Playstation that hate the other two competing platforms (Nintendo and Microsoft), or even here, where some people love Mac OS-X but hate Windows and Linux, at least this is my whole understanding of fanboyism. :)
OK! Kinda like a groupie. But never understood this mentality either, but know it exists. :roll:

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Postby asdufisn » 01 May 2007 10:17

http://www.overclock.net/faqs/127705-in ... ht-me.html ( VLC Pros: Free -Great Power Uses Less CPUare ) can be find in many places on the web.
Does not really contradict my observations ... VLC maybe performs great on the fastest CPU's when overclock.neted, but badly on slow ones :oops:
VLC media player works for years in DOS
For me not. Either you are fool, or I'm a fool, or :? :? :?
Very interesting and useful link :-) But the guy does not say what versions he used - probably he used the horribly buggy MPLAYER 1.0RC1 (does not work at all for me), but the March 2007 versions are much better :-)
I call that FUD
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Postby DJ » 01 May 2007 11:05

I'm using the latest versions of both players and VLC has the lowest CPU usage. This is particularly noticeable for anything that DirectX will allow to be pushed off to the video card, but this does require support by the video card. Like the DVD or anything MPEG. For most everything else like DivX or XviD VLC is on par with MPlayer.

Both are good tools and have there strengths and weaknesses.

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Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 01 May 2007 11:31

Does not really contradict my observations ... VLC maybe performs great on the fastest CPU's when overclock.neted, but badly on slow ones :oops:
Cool. You have the contrary observations than almost anybody...

And about banning people, as you might have seen all their post have been deleted...
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Postby DJ » 01 May 2007 11:54

Overclocking video or CPU is a really bad idea for timing in all video with audio type files.

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i hate betas

Postby MetalheadGautham » 01 May 2007 18:04

betas are good for testing, but forget using them full time... obviously, vlc is in beta now, hence its buggy... wait till it comes out 1.0

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cd burning

Postby MetalheadGautham » 01 May 2007 18:11

it will be great if one of these open players had cd writing, you know, with tags intact and editable, with support to create mp3, wma, ogg, acc, flac, audio discs, etc.....

:idea: how about cdrtools in vlc?

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Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 01 May 2007 18:29

libburnia support was discussed but never written. We lack developers!
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Postby MetalheadGautham » 02 May 2007 05:32

.............rignt.................... its about time you display some advertisements to cover some costs and hire guys...... mozilla gets lots of google money, so you can too............................................................................................
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Postby MetalheadGautham » 02 May 2007 06:48

I'm using the latest versions of both players and VLC has the lowest CPU usage. This is particularly noticeable for anything that DirectX will allow to be pushed off to the video card, but this does require support by the video card. Like the DVD or anything MPEG. For most everything else like DivX or XviD VLC is on par with MPlayer.

Both are good tools and have there strengths and weaknesses.

yup... but the command line version of mplayer is unbeatable in cpu usage.... It is damn useful for audio, as only a single window is used.... funny though, sometimes vlc uses less ram than mplayer commandline, but after I minimise both and maximise them, mplayer wins full throttle... a minimised mplayer uses just around 1.2 mb of ram, the least any player uses... I say put a command line interface in vlc, for the cpu miserly...
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Postby MetalheadGautham » 02 May 2007 07:23

I have a beatles music video(real) which plays in mplayer perfectly, but it plays without video and with broken stuttering audio in vlc. do you want me to upload it? :?:
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Postby CloudStalker » 02 May 2007 07:31

He means upload it from your mind to his:
ditch your media player and just imagine movies... isn't the brain the strongest supercomputer?
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Postby MetalheadGautham » 02 May 2007 07:35

He means upload it from your mind to his:
ditch your media player and just imagine movies... isn't the brain the strongest supercomputer?
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I guess cloudstalker lacks suffitient bandwidth in the mental upload band.... guess all mentals are the same
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Postby CloudStalker » 02 May 2007 07:48

:| Why you... 0110100110 :D

OK I shall stop now. Sorry. 8)

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Postby MetalheadGautham » 02 May 2007 07:57

:| Why you... 0110100110 :D

OK I shall stop now. Sorry. 8)
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Postby daveshrop » 02 May 2007 08:53



I'd be interested to know what you think of foobar 2000,its an advanced audio player & highly customizable
http://www.techspot.com/tweaks/foobar/

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wow

Postby MetalheadGautham » 02 May 2007 08:59

quite good, to bad its propiatary :( :x :cry: :evil:
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Postby MetalheadGautham » 02 May 2007 10:34

wow :!:

the vlc nightlies are getting better by time :D

hope you atleast release vlc 0.8.7 now, if not 0.9......... :(
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Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 02 May 2007 10:56

wow :!:

the vlc nightlies are getting better by time :D

hope you atleast release vlc 0.8.7 now, if not 0.9......... :(
Next version will be 0.9.0
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Postby MetalheadGautham » 02 May 2007 10:59

hey j-b did you see the icons i uploaded in the help vlc or sumting forum?
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Postby MetalheadGautham » 02 May 2007 11:18

is vlc's keyboard interface customisable?
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