Re: Video files conversions - was - Re: watching films full screen

2014-07-10 Thread Brian
On Wed 09 Jul 2014 at 13:46:02 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > On 09/07/2014, B wrote: > > > > > > > About MTS trouble, vlc doesn't claim to support it: > > http://www.videolan.org/vlc/features.php?cat=video > > a common troubleshooter is to convert it to AVI (or MOV, > > or whatever container

VLC limitations (was: Re: watching films full screen)

2014-07-09 Thread Joel Roth
B wrote: > On Tue, 8 Jul 2014 10:22:53 -1000 > Joel Roth wrote: > > > That's interesting to me to hear you say this. Dealing > > with a variety of video formats, I find mpv (based on > > mplayer) to be much more tolerant of video formats. > > > > Most recently, I observed the VLC won't handl

Re: watching films full screen

2014-07-09 Thread Bzzzz
On Wed, 09 Jul 2014 10:33:06 +0200 François Patte wrote: > that this feature does not exist in kaffeine and, while it exists > in vlc, it does not work! Not totally true: it works on a desktop, not on a laptop. -- If Christianity was morality, Socrates would be the Saviour. -- William Blake

Re: watching films full screen

2014-07-09 Thread François Patte
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 08/07/2014 20:02, Steve B a écrit : > On 07/07/2014 11:08 PM, François Patte wrote: >> >> 1- I would like to configure kaffeine for a "real full screen >> ie. without any visible xfce panels. There are only one option in >> the menu "configuration"

Re: Video files conversions - was - Re: watching films full screen

2014-07-08 Thread Bzzzz
On Wed, 9 Jul 2014 13:46:02 +0800 Bret Busby wrote: > Do you happen to know whether such a conversion, would work to > convert .qs files to .avi files, and, if so, whether that would > overcome the problems that I have experienced with some .qs files, > when being viewed using vlc? Nope, but if

Video files conversions - was - Re: watching films full screen

2014-07-08 Thread Bret Busby
On 09/07/2014, B wrote: > > About MTS trouble, vlc doesn't claim to support it: > http://www.videolan.org/vlc/features.php?cat=video > a common troubleshooter is to convert it to AVI (or MOV, > or whatever container supported by vlc) with avidemux > (use 'copy', don't transcode). > Do you

Re: watching films full screen

2014-07-08 Thread Bzzzz
On Tue, 8 Jul 2014 10:22:53 -1000 Joel Roth wrote: > That's interesting to me to hear you say this. Dealing > with a variety of video formats, I find mpv (based on > mplayer) to be much more tolerant of video formats. > > Most recently, I observed the VLC won't handle MTS format > videos copied

Re: watching films full screen

2014-07-08 Thread Joel Roth
On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 04:06:25PM +0200, B wrote: > On Tue, 8 Jul 2014 16:48:37 +0300 > Rares Aioanei wrote: > > > In my experience, indeed vlc has the option, but it fails to work > > most of the time, > > Sooo, you have plenty of failures you'd like to share > with us! As an every day us

Re: watching films full screen

2014-07-08 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 08 Jul 2014 12:26:55 +0200 Johann Klammer wrote: > open a terminal, and enter > xset -dpms s off For whatever reason, I've needed to put the preceding in a loop that fires every 30 minutes. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training *

Re: watching films full screen

2014-07-08 Thread Steve B
On 07/07/2014 11:08 PM, François Patte wrote: 1- I would like to configure kaffeine for a "real full screen ie. without any visible xfce panels. There are only one option in the menu "configuration": choosing the startup mode! I had a similar bug with XFCE and VLC causing a "partial" full scre

Re: watching films full screen

2014-07-08 Thread Bzzzz
On Tue, 8 Jul 2014 16:48:37 +0300 Rares Aioanei wrote: > In my experience, indeed vlc has the option, but it fails to work > most of the time, Sooo, you have plenty of failures you'd like to share with us! As an every day user on multiple machines and platforms, I'm dying to here from you - esp

Re: watching films full screen

2014-07-08 Thread Rares Aioanei
On Tue, 08 Jul 2014 12:26:55 +0200 Johann Klammer wrote: > On 07/07/2014 11:30 PM, B wrote: > > On Mon, 07 Jul 2014 23:08:05 +0200 > > François Patte wrote: > > > >> 1- I would like to configure kaffeine for a "real full screen ie. > >> without any visible xfce panels. There are only one opt

Re: watching films full screen

2014-07-08 Thread Johann Klammer
On 07/07/2014 11:30 PM, B wrote: On Mon, 07 Jul 2014 23:08:05 +0200 François Patte wrote: 1- I would like to configure kaffeine for a "real full screen ie. without any visible xfce panels. There are only one option in the menu "configuration": choosing the startup mode! AFAIK, kaffeine h

Re: watching films full screen

2014-07-07 Thread Brad Rogers
On Mon, 07 Jul 2014 23:08:05 +0200 François Patte wrote: Hello François, >2- How to prevent dpms action when on fullscreen mode? As B suggests; Go with vlc. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)radnever immediately apparent" Now I found you

Re: watching films full screen

2014-07-07 Thread Bzzzz
On Mon, 07 Jul 2014 23:08:05 +0200 François Patte wrote: > 1- I would like to configure kaffeine for a "real full screen ie. > without any visible xfce panels. There are only one option in the > menu "configuration": choosing the startup mode! AFAIK, kaffeine has a problem with the xfce taskbar;

watching films full screen

2014-07-07 Thread François Patte
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bonjour, I don't know how to configure apps for watching films full screen: 1- I would like to configure kaffeine for a "real full screen ie. without any visible xfce panels. There are only one option in the menu "configuration