On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 13:19 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote: > > 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. I haven't heard of DragonPlayer. I see it has a web page, but isn't in the repos. Maybe I'll try it. poc
