VLC perfomance
Posted: Sun Nov 27, 2011 11:36 am
I'm using fit-pc2 mainly as a media server. Recently I upgraded from Ubuntu 9.04 to Mint 9. I'm using VLC as a media player as it seems to be more tolerant to errors in ts files than mplayer. Also I need subtitle support.
Under Ubuntu 9.04 VLC performed reasonbly well. Only occasionally it started to eat all heap and swap memory and halted the whole system before crashing. During normal playback it was still smooth with non-HD tv recordings.
Mint 9 and VLC seems to much slower combination. The playback (even from fit-pc2 local disk) is much jerkier than under Ubuntu 9.04. It seems like VLC is dropping frames. I have tried to increase bufferings on VLC but that didn't help either.
Have someone succeeded using Mint 9 and VLC? Or are the better (subtitle supporting) media players available?
Under Ubuntu 9.04 VLC performed reasonbly well. Only occasionally it started to eat all heap and swap memory and halted the whole system before crashing. During normal playback it was still smooth with non-HD tv recordings.
Mint 9 and VLC seems to much slower combination. The playback (even from fit-pc2 local disk) is much jerkier than under Ubuntu 9.04. It seems like VLC is dropping frames. I have tried to increase bufferings on VLC but that didn't help either.
Have someone succeeded using Mint 9 and VLC? Or are the better (subtitle supporting) media players available?