vlc too slow

sk8harddiefast
please use some paste-service like http://pastie.org
cause for your link i've got

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Dude, your link is not helping. It redirects me to an login page
of that site. It seems you haven't made that file publicly viewable.

And does the fact, sending the output of vlc -vvv, mean, it didn't work
increasing shared memory? Please be more verbose.
 
FrogLS said:
Dude, your link is not helping. It redirects me to an login page
of that site. It seems you haven't made that file publicly viewable.

And does the fact, sending the output of vlc -vvv, mean, it didn't work
increasing shared memory? Please be more verbose.
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This is what you get when using a lousy wifi connection: loosing the thread.

Since nekoexmachina pointed at the foulty link allready, ignore my last posting.
 
Examining the debug output of vlc did not reveal any useful hints about the
cause of the malfunction. vlc is using the "avcodec" decoder library
(video and audio - part of ffmpeg) to decode your .mov file.

Code: 
...
[0x821975078] avcodec decoder debug: libavcodec initialized (interface 0x341401)
[0x821975078] avcodec decoder debug: ffmpeg codec (H264 - MPEG-4 AVC (part 10))
started
...

vlc uses multimedia/ffmpeg to obtain libavcodec and mplayer has ffmpeg mpeg4 codec
natively build in. ( http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/codecs-status.html )
Both have problems playing your mov file and certain mp4 videos of mine. That suggests
some process interferes or is missing by the decoding in FreeBSD 8.0 Release. As i
experienced in earlier versions of vlc (remembering that where on the 7.x Releases branch)
the play with my mp4 files in question was normal as it is on linux platforms now.

The next step i can think of is repeating the debug procedure with mplayer.
We should get some additional debug infos there.

If you are willing please do:

Code: 
cd /usr/ports/multimedia/mplayer
make config
DEBUG=on

I am not sure how the option for maximum verbosity is to be set (-v -vv ?).
Take a look at "mplayer -help" and choose the one for maximum output,
if present.

And could you please send your dmesg to? I would like to take a look of the cpu
capabilities ( MMX, MMXEXT, ...) seen by the kernel. If the GENERIC kernel has not turned on
certain multimedia capabilities of the CPU, that could also be a place to search.
 
Both have problems playing your mov file and certain mp4 videos of mine
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if i understand the problem right, i have had pretty same problem with .mp4-movies about a half-a-year ago. That was like if the movie is in mp4 container, it plays like crap with any resolution and bitrate.
The thing that helped me was just packing mp4-file into mkv-container with some tool from mkvtoolnix package.
 
nekoexmachina said:
...i have had pretty same problem with .mp4-movies about a half-a-year ago. That was like if the movie is in mp4 container, it plays like crap with any resolution and bitrate.The thing that helped me was just packing mp4-file into mkv-container with some tool from mkvtoolnix package.
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In case we can't reach to a solution to this problem, i was planing to recommend
'gpac-mp4box' to repack the .MOV file as an workaround. Earlier in this thread i
mentioned about reports that the problem might be due to the container.

But the problem remains why the .MOV file of sk8harddiefast and some of my .mp4's
are not playing on 8.0 Release but on linux platforms and in my case on the
7.x Release branch.

sk8harddiefast if you want to go the workaround way you can try the programs mentioned
or any other container creating program you know of.

/usr/ports/multimedia/mkvtoolnix http://www.bunkus.org/videotools/mkvtoolnix/


/usr/ports/multimedia/gpac-mp4box
http://gpac.sourceforge.net/packager.php http://gpac.sourceforge.net/doc_mp4box.php


The first program can put files in .mkv container only. mp4box supports many other
formats. That does not mean one program is better than the other. Just use the one
you see fit for your needs.


You can also go beside the 'workaround way' the 'seeking a solution to the problem' way too.

If you do so, then:

sk8harddiefast said:
My mplayer fails to be build with debug on
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In this case play the mov file with the installed package.
$ mplayer -v IMAG0076.MOV

and post the output.

Note
I should have read this earlier to comply to the readability of the posts.
http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=8816
Sorry DutchDaemon for not doing so.
 
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