vlc on fit-pc2 odd coloring/flickering

[FiXion]

Hi.

I've installed Ubuntu 9.04 on my fit-pc2 and with mplayer-vaapi it works very well, and can even play a Birds 1080p mkv without loosing frames.

I have a DVD image - but mplayer skips through it and can't really play it (mplayer never was good at dvd's), so I tried vlc - but it has very odd coloring and much flickering so it's unwatchable

Anyone have a working vlc - or perhaps any other video player, that can play dvd images?

[Mylife]

Hi,

I think that mplayer-vaapi is able to handle video streams with hardware acceleration because it's got the "vaapi" stuff.

Standard VLC hasn't probably got this stuff.

It means that you'll have to wait for a later release of VLC, compile it yourself, or find a vaapi flag to set on somewhere ...

More info here :
http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php ... i&start=15

[FiXion]

I tried compiling from git - but the compile failed when vaapi was enabled

I then found that there was someone maintaing never version of vlc for ubuntu Jaunty - see here for details: http://tuxarena.blogspot.com/2009/07/ho ... u-ppa.html

And that version works with fit-pc2 - only I can't see the "select" cursor in the dvd menu - so I have to know where it is actually at.

[Mylife]

vaapi isn't already available with the last version of VLC, is it ?
Have you been able to compile VLC with vaapi ?

I can't see the "select" cursor in the dvd menu.

I'm afraid not to undestand.
What "select" cursor are you talking about ?
(Sorry don't use my fit-pc2 for multimedia purposes ).

If you drag and drop you dvd image on VLC, does it work ?

[FiXion]

Have you been able to compile VLC with vaapi ?

No as I said it spits out a compile error and stops compiling

It seems the v1.0.2 from the mentioned repo has vaapi support - it can play the dvd image without problems atleast.

I posted the details as to how I solved it, so that it could perhaps help someone else, who might have the same problem - as I consider the issue solved

I can't see the "select" cursor in the dvd menu.

I'm afraid not to undestand.
What "select" cursor are you talking about ?

The select cursor in the dvd menu (when playing the dvd).

If you drag and drop you dvd image on VLC, does it work ?

I don't drag and drop it - I just start it from cli, running: vlc -f <filename>

and it plays perfectly - the dvd menu not being drawn completely correct is just a detail

[Mylife]

Okkkkkkk !
You give more infos than I can give myself !

About the DVD menu (and this special "select" cursor ), is it a problem with only one single DVD image or does it happen with all DVD images you've tried ?

As an alternative, you may still use the VLC menu rather than the DVD menu (right click and choose a specific title and chapter).
It's not as easy to find what you want but, as you said, it's just a detail ...

[FiXion]

I currently only have two dvd images on the box, and they are both exactly alike (two kids dvds of same series - and they both have the problem.

[Mylife]

Maybe none image is perfect (twice unlucky ! ) ?

Is "md5sum" the same for each DVD and its respective image ?

It would be better to test a totally different series of DVDs, wouldn't it ?