[Bug 1443856] Re: Very short videos won't play

2015-04-14 Thread Misaki
If it helps, the OpenH264 codec by Cisco provided with Firefox does even worse; it stops after frame 1 (2nd frame) and then causes 100% CPU, I have to restart -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/b

[Bug 1443856] Re: Very short videos won't play

2015-04-14 Thread Misaki
'Drop late frames' makes all frames other than the first one be dropped, because they're late, despite the video being only 1 fps and taking almost no CPU percent to play. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.la

[Bug 1443856] Re: Very short videos won't play

2015-04-14 Thread Misaki
This video demonstrates the problem. The video starts at 0, as demonstrated by looking at the frames such as with "ffprobe -select_streams 0 -show_frames timing.mp4 |less". But vlc starts video playback around 2, showing frame 0 at that time, and ends at the 6th frame (frame 5), not displaying the

[Bug 1443856] Re: Very short videos won't play

2015-04-14 Thread Misaki
** Description changed: A very short video, such as 1 frame long, won't play in VLC. Nothing will show up, even if the video is paused. A 1-frame video can be useful for things like testing the performance of different encoding settings. While it's possible that VLC (maybe depending o