Alternative to VLC

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

Re: Alternative to VLC

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 ___

Re: Alternative to VLC

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

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

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: GNOME interface is too bulky

Tim: >> Too CPU intensive (I don't have a fancy graphics card). Samuel Sieb:> I would be very surprised if your graphics device didn't have enough > acceleration to run Gnome at a completely reasonable level. What CPU > usage do you think is involved? Sure, it can run it, but it's noticeably

Re: Alternative to VLC

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

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

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

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

UEFI Upgrade Fails

Discover, which I use for upgrades, reports problems with UEFI. There is an update, which Discover refuses to install. Discover reports this message: UEFI DBX : Version 217 : Released on 4/8/23 UEFI Secure Boot Forbidden Signature Database Insecure versions of software from Trend

Re: UEFI Upgrade Fails

On Sat, Apr 8, 2023 at 9:08 PM Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > Discover, which I use for upgrades, reports problems with UEFI. There is an > update, which Discover refuses to install. Discover reports this message: > > UEFI DBX : Version 217 : Released on 4/8/23 > > UEFI Secure Boot Forbidden Signatu

Re: Alternative to VLC

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

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: UEFI Upgrade Fails

On Sat, 2023-04-08 at 21:32 -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Sat, Apr 8, 2023 at 9:08 PM Jonathan Ryshpan > wrote: > > > > Discover, which I use for upgrades, reports problems with UEFI. > > There is an update, which Discover refuses to install. Discover > > reports this message: > > > > UEFI D

Re: Alternative to VLC

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: UEFI Upgrade Fails

On 4/8/23 19:09, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: On Sat, 2023-04-08 at 21:32 -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Sat, Apr 8, 2023 at 9:08 PM Jonathan Ryshpan > wrote: Discover, which I use for upgrades, reports problems with UEFI. There is an update, which Discover refuses to i

Re: UEFI Upgrade Fails

On Sat, 2023-04-08 at 20:03 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > > > It looks like there is a new version of the UEFI boot system, > > > > which > > > > can't be installed because of signature issues. Is this correct? > > > > Is > > > > it anything to worry about? Can anything be done to fix the > > > >

Re: Alternative to VLC

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

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

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: UEFI Upgrade Fails

On 4/8/23 20:29, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: On Sat, 2023-04-08 at 20:03 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: It looks like there is a new version of the UEFI boot system, which can't be installed because of signature issues. Is this correct? Is Now that I read back again, I see you misunderstood it. The me