On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 13:19 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Thursday 19 February 2009 12:29:54 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 10:57 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > On Thursday 19 February 2009 09:23:07 Arthur Pemberton wrote: > > > > On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 8:17 AM, Anne Wilson > > > > <cannewilson at googlemail.com> > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > What is the status of kaffeine in relation to KDE4? Does anyone know > > > > > whether it is a porting work-in-progress, or whether the current KDE3 > > > > > version is the end of the line? I no longer like amarok, and find > > > > > kaffeine suits me well enough, but I'm concerned that KDE3 apps like > > > > > this will just fade away. > > > > > > > > > > Any comfort in sight? > > > > > > > > > > Anne > > > > > > > > On the bright side, VLC is Qt now. > > > > > > I know VLC is well regarded, but I never got on well with it :-( Perhaps > > > it is time to try it again. > > > > VLC is my first-choice video player (I use Amarok for audio) but lately > > it's been giving very choppy performance, especially at the start of > > videos (both .avi and .iso). I'm using PulseAudio and everything else > > seems to work. The same videos work fine in Mplayer. > > > I haven't tried it before for video, but for audio it is unbearably horrible, > stuttering all over the place. DragonPlayer is so much better. Out of > curiosity I just fed the sme VOB from a camcorder recording to each of the > apps I have installed. DragonPlayer was the only one to play it without > stuttering. VLC was the worst. > > Anne Even w/o Pulse VLC shutters when showing video. Something bad happened to it when they switched to qt :( - Gilboa
