On 07/07/2014, Bob Proulx <b...@proulx.com> wrote: > Bret Busby wrote:
<snip> > >> And, I have found that vlc (running on Debian 6), has a problem with >> some of the files, in that the output for some of the files, as with >> the output for mplayer, is choppy (if that is the correct term), >> meaning that it will play a little bit, then stop, then play a little >> bit more, a bit like the reproduction from the movie projectors from >> the days of the silent movies, when output was also, not flowing. > > Different players use different codec libraries. And in Debian things > are more confused because of the fork between ffmpeg and libav. > Debian chose the libav fork. In hindsight that was probably a bad > choice and I think we would be better off with ffmpeg instead. > > In the end it means that every player is slightly different. It is > all related to the file encoding. Some work great and others don't > work so well. (shrug) > > Bob > The interesting thing, is that movies, with the same resolution (720x576) and same frame rate (50fps) and with Slaughterhouse Five having audio sample rate 48kHz and bitrate 256kb/s, and Prisoners Of The Lost Universe having the same data, except with bitrate 160kb/s, play okay; flowingly, but a movie (and, it is not the only one) such as The Beguiled, with the same data as Slaughterhouse Five, plays in a choppy way. So, in vlc, the Tools -> Codec Details for Streams 0 and 1 (Video and Audio), do not show a difference that easily shows to me, why the vlc is unable to play a movie such as The Beguiled, as flowingly as other movies such as Slaughterhouse Five. -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .............. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means." - Deep Thought, Chapter 28 of Book 1 of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy In Four Parts", written by Douglas Adams, published by Pan Books, 1992 .................................................... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CACX6j8Pnm4NRyGf=m_eh51WtTW=e6mDLQqX3jF+H=tcs5tb...@mail.gmail.com
