VLC2 updated libavcodec?

[darmok]

Please try again with the latest version. That includes an updated libavcodec.

I'm on a 933-MHz Power Mac G4 running OS X 10.5.8. I know, not a warp speed machine.

Using VLC 1.1.9, videos play smoothly -- mepg-2, xvid, etc, using around 30% of my cpu.

Using VLC 2.0.3, some xvids are smooth, as long as I don't try to skip forward, then they break up. No mpeg-2 videos play well - they stutter, skip frames, break up, etc. All at 90 to 100% of my cpu.

I can provide a crash log of 2.0.3 (downloaded last night) going belly up, today, if that would help.

Regrettably, we cannot revert to a previous version because of security issues.

You could at least make the link to 1.1.9 easy to find on your downloads page.

- Dan.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

You could at least make the link to 1.1.9 easy to find on your downloads page.

Advertise security crippled versions? No.


Otherwise, if noone having those speed issue does what we need to help us debug, it won't get debugged...

[darmok]

Otherwise, if noone having those speed issue does what we need to help us debug, it won't get debugged...

Not really sure what that sentence means.

Here's the crash log:
https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/7407

- Dan.

[darmok]

Please try again with the latest version. That includes an updated libavcodec.

I'm on a 933-MHz Power Mac G4 running OS X 10.5.8. I know, not a warp speed machine.
Using VLC 1.1.9, videos play smoothly -- mepg-2, xvid, etc, using around 30% of my cpu.
Using VLC 2.0.3, some xvids are smooth, as long as I don't try to skip forward, then they break up. No mpeg-2 videos play well - they stutter, skip frames, break up, etc. All at 90 to 100% of my cpu.

Just an update... same machine. Tried VLC 2.0.5 with a dozen different videos. So far it has not crashed, but then again it seems to be unable to play any videos smoothly. Xvid, divx, mpeg-1, mpeg-2, wmv -- the audio stutters and the video is a black window or a single non-changing frame. If I try to skip forward then the audio clears up for about 10 secs then goes back to stuttering. As noted (above), 2.0.3 was at least able to play xvids. And VLC 1.1.12 (I found .12 after using .9 for a while) is able to play all -- even in full screen mode.

fwiw,
- Dan.

[darmok]

Another update... Same QuickSilver running Leopard, and now VLC 2.0.6.

2.0.6 is now able to play some avi and wmv videos. The frame rate is a bit slow and it cranks the CPU at 100%. By contrast, 1.1.12 plays these same videos smoothly using only 50 to 60% of the CPU.

2.0.6 is unable to play Video-DVDs or mpeg-2 .mpg files. They stutter then pixelate then hang on a single frame.

Regardless of video, if I skip forward, the frame pixelates and takes 30+ secs to recover. About half the time, the recovery is just to lock on a single frame...