Re: Alternative to VLC

2023-04-10 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 4/10/23 08:43, Go Canes wrote: On Mon, Apr 10, 2023 at 11:22 AM stan via users wrote: On Sat, 8 Apr 2023 21:17:37 -0700 ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 4/8/23 19:07, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 4/8/23 17:11, Go Canes wrote: I'm curious what bugs you are encountering. When I get

Re: Alternative to VLC

2023-04-10 Thread Go Canes
On Mon, Apr 10, 2023 at 11:22 AM stan via users wrote: > > On Sat, 8 Apr 2023 21:17:37 -0700 > ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > > > On 4/8/23 19:07, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > > > On 4/8/23 17:11, Go Canes wrote: > > >> I'm curious what bugs you are encountering. > > > > > > When I get a few

Re: Alternative to VLC

2023-04-10 Thread stan via users
On Sat, 8 Apr 2023 21:17:37 -0700 ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > On 4/8/23 19:07, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > > On 4/8/23 17:11, Go Canes wrote: > >> I'm curious what bugs you are encountering. > > > > When I get a few 20 minutes, I will list them > > > vlc-3.0.18-2.fc37.x86_64 [sni

Re: Alternative to VLC

2023-04-10 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 4/9/23 19:30, Tim via users wrote: Tim: It really bogs down the PC, I've got little chance to open a terminal. You could hammer away on VLC's close gadget and not get noticed. I nearly always have to kill X with CTRL ALT BACKSPACE as about the only way to deal with it. ToddAndMargo:

Re: Alternative to VLC

2023-04-09 Thread Tim via users
Tim: >> It really bogs down the PC, I've got little chance to open a terminal. >> You could hammer away on VLC's close gadget and not get noticed. I >> nearly always have to kill X with CTRL ALT BACKSPACE as about the only >> way to deal with it. ToddAndMargo: > Try > > do a ps and a kill -

Re: Alternative to VLC

2023-04-09 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 4/9/23 18:51, Slade Watkins via users wrote: On Apr 8, 2023, at 6:04 AM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: VLC can play a lot of stuff, but the player has so, so many bugs in it that I am thinking it is time to give up on VLC. Parole seems to work okay. You guys have a favorite sub for VLC

Re: Alternative to VLC

2023-04-09 Thread Slade Watkins via users
> On Apr 8, 2023, at 6:04 AM, ToddAndMargo via users > wrote: > > VLC can play a lot of stuff, but the player > has so, so many bugs in it that I am thinking > it is time to give up on VLC. Parole seems to > work okay. > > You guys have a favorite sub for VLC? I use Parole in place of VLC

Re: Alternative to VLC

2023-04-09 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 4/9/23 02:37, Tim via users wrote: Tim: I can only say I've noticed one bug with VLC: If you have repeat play on and try to play a broken file it'll deadloop with very heavy CPU use, and it's nearly impossible to make it quit. Joe Zeff: kill -9 should do it. It really bogs down the PC,

Re: Alternative to VLC

2023-04-09 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Sat, Apr 08, 2023 at 08:38:17PM -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: I installed SMPlayer. It is a GUI for MPlayer, but dnf download mvp and mot mplayer, so go figure. It works though. smplayer depends on mpv/mplayer. And mpv is based on mplayer. dnf -C repoquery --deplist smplayer vlc ha

Re: Alternative to VLC

2023-04-09 Thread Tim via users
Tim: >> I can only say I've noticed one bug with VLC: If you have repeat play >> on and try to play a broken file it'll deadloop with very heavy CPU >> use, and it's nearly impossible to make it quit. Joe Zeff: > kill -9 should do it. It really bogs down the PC, I've got little chance to open a

Re: Alternative to VLC

2023-04-08 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 4/8/23 20:00, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 4/8/23 19:06, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 4/8/23 15:46, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Sat, Apr 8, 2023 at 6:37 PM ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 4/8/23 07:41, stan via users wrote: Have you opened a bug report with their upstream, or even on Fedora,

Re: Alternative to VLC

2023-04-08 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 4/8/23 19:07, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 4/8/23 17:11, Go Canes wrote: I'm curious what bugs you are encountering. When I get a few 20 minutes, I will list them vlc-3.0.18-2.fc37.x86_64 Well I do have a ton on ogg and mp4's that range from 3 minutes to 10 minutes. I like to play

Re: Alternative to VLC

2023-04-08 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 4/8/23 03:04, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Hi All, VLC can play a lot of stuff, but the player has so, so many bugs in it that I am thinking it is time to give up on VLC.  Parole seems to work okay. You guys have a favorite sub for VLC? Many thanks, -T I installed SMPlayer. It is a GUI

Re: Alternative to VLC

2023-04-08 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 4/8/23 19:06, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 4/8/23 15:46, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Sat, Apr 8, 2023 at 6:37 PM ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 4/8/23 07:41, stan via users wrote: Have you opened a bug report with their upstream, or even on Fedora, for the issues you have?  Are the dev

Re: Alternative to VLC

2023-04-08 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 4/8/23 17:11, Go Canes wrote: I'm curious what bugs you are encountering. When I get a few 20 minutes, I will list them ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedo

Re: Alternative to VLC

2023-04-08 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 4/8/23 15:46, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Sat, Apr 8, 2023 at 6:37 PM ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 4/8/23 07:41, stan via users wrote: Have you opened a bug report with their upstream, or even on Fedora, for the issues you have? Are the devs aware of the problems, but not fixing them? A

Re: Alternative to VLC

2023-04-08 Thread Go Canes
On Sat, Apr 8, 2023 at 6:37 PM ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > The bugs [in vlc] drive me nuts. I'm curious what bugs you are encountering. I use vlc all the time and the only significant bug I run into is the one where it skips the first few seconds of the first track on startup. I have encoun

Re: Alternative to VLC

2023-04-08 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sat, Apr 8, 2023 at 6:37 PM ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > > On 4/8/23 07:41, stan via users wrote: > > Have you opened a bug report with their upstream, or even on Fedora, > > for the issues you have? Are the devs aware of the problems, but not > > fixing them? Are there lots of 'me too's i

Re: Alternative to VLC

2023-04-08 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 4/8/23 07:41, stan via users wrote: Have you opened a bug report with their upstream, or even on Fedora, for the issues you have? Are the devs aware of the problems, but not fixing them? Are there lots of 'me too's in the bugs? I'm just curious whether it is just your user experience, or the

Re: Alternative to VLC

2023-04-08 Thread Joe Zeff
On 04/08/2023 09:16 AM, Tim via users wrote: I can only say I've noticed one bug with VLC: If you have repeat play on and try to play a broken file it'll deadloop with very heavy CPU use, and it's nearly impossible to make it quit. kill -9 should do it.

Re: Alternative to VLC

2023-04-08 Thread Tim via users
On Sat, 2023-04-08 at 03:04 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > VLC can play a lot of stuff, but the player > has so, so many bugs in it that I am thinking > it is time to give up on VLC. I can only say I've noticed one bug with VLC: If you have repeat play on and try to play a broken file it'

Re: Alternative to VLC

2023-04-08 Thread stan via users
On Sat, 8 Apr 2023 03:04:38 -0700 ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > VLC can play a lot of stuff, but the player > has so, so many bugs in it that I am thinking Have you opened a bug report with their upstream, or even on Fedora, for the issues you have? Are the devs aware of the problems, but not

Re: Alternative to VLC

2023-04-08 Thread Luna Jernberg
mpv On 4/8/23, Andras Simon wrote: > 2023-04-08 12:04 UTC+02:00, ToddAndMargo via users > : >> Hi All, >> >> VLC can play a lot of stuff, but the player >> has so, so many bugs in it that I am thinking >> it is time to give up on VLC. Parole seems to >> work okay. >> >> You guys have a favorite

Re: Alternative to VLC

2023-04-08 Thread Andras Simon
2023-04-08 12:04 UTC+02:00, ToddAndMargo via users : > Hi All, > > VLC can play a lot of stuff, but the player > has so, so many bugs in it that I am thinking > it is time to give up on VLC. Parole seems to > work okay. > > You guys have a favorite sub for VLC? mplayer Andras ___

Alternative to VLC

2023-04-08 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
Hi All, VLC can play a lot of stuff, but the player has so, so many bugs in it that I am thinking it is time to give up on VLC. Parole seems to work okay. You guys have a favorite sub for VLC? Many thanks, -T ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fed