The Five Best Linux Video Players (Linux.com)
The Five Best Linux Video Players (Linux.com)
Posted Feb 22, 2010 23:01 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304)In reply to: The Five Best Linux Video Players (Linux.com) by nirbheek
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doesn't crash, unlike last time I tried, but the sound is so juddery it's
unusable. It seems to be using pulseaudio directly (the lethal juddering
is normally a sign of using the pulseaudio alsa plugin).
I don't seem to be having much luck with PA and video players right now.
If they don't freeze solid on first fast-forward, they judder :/ I guess
PA (and fast-forward/rewind) is the only common factor.
I noted the freeze (the only class of failure I'd then noticed) on the PA
list an hour ago. I'm sure it'll get fixed soon enough... there's
definitely a bug here. Paging Lennart, you're our only hope!
(well, OK, I'll try to track the bug down myself, but it's 11pm here, so
not tonight.)
Posted Feb 23, 2010 3:56 UTC (Tue)
by ncm (guest, #165)
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I suppose we still need an occasional reminder why it's called "unstable".
For a long time Gstreamer-derived programs failed frequently, but not for the last two years. Now Xine is the least reliable video player, and mplayer often fails where totem succeeds. I do not often need to try VLC.
Posted Feb 23, 2010 13:41 UTC (Tue)
by hmh (subscriber, #3838)
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Totem was crashing at startup here, too, for a few weeks until I fixed it with "apt-get install totem-common". Turned out that recently packaged versions depend on a similarly recent version of totem-common, but don't list the dependency in the package metadata. To be precise, totem 2.28.5 crashes when run with totem-common 2.28.1, at least on vanilla Debian unstable.
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