Re: vlc media player

>>     figured out the installation (sh <file>) but now it is telling me
>>     to uninstall the previous installation of fglrx (which I am doing
>>     with apt-get remove). But to remove it it is installing a package
>>     called :

>>     The following NEW packages will be installed:
>>       fglrx-amdcccle-updates fglrx-updates

>>     SO should I continue with the installation of 13.12 after the
>>     updates are installed?

>>     :-)~MIKE~(-:

>>     On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 4:11 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com
>>     <mailto:bmike1@gmail.com>> wrote:

>>         okay....  is installed but they are up to version 13.12 .
>>         Time for an upgrade. I d/l the new driver butdon't know how
>>         to install it. The file is a .run file . './<file name> isn't
>>         working and the release notes don't give any indication.  So
>>         what do I do?

>>         :-)~MIKE~(-:

>>         On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 4:02 PM, Michael Butash
>>         <michael@butash.net <mailto:michael@butash.net>> wrote:

>>             mb@host:~$  sudo dpkg -l fglrx
>>             Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
>>             |
>>             Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
>>             |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
>>             ||/ Name           Version Architecture Description
>>             +++-==============-============-============-=================================
>>             ii  fglrx          2:13.200-0ub amd64        Video driver
>>             for the AMD graphics

>>             Compare that against the active driver sets from AMD's site.

>>             -mb

>>             On 12/26/2013 03:56 PM, Michael Havens wrote:
>>>             Hey Mike..... how do I see what the current version of
>>>             fglrx is? I tried locate and I think it is 9 or 10 as
>>>             there are a coupke of files.... one is:
>>>             /etc/X11/Xsession.d/10fglrx
>>>             and the other
>>>             /usr/lib/pxpress/lib/10fglrx
>>>             or
>>>             /usr/src/fglrx-9.000
>>>             and then a bunch of files built off of that directory.
>>>             .... then I just noticed:

>>>             /lib/modules/3.5.0-17-generic/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.ko

>>>             :-)~MIKE~(-:

>>>             On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Michael Butash
>>>             <michael@butash.net <mailto:michael@butash.net>> wrote:

>>>                 Ok, I think the problem is likely with the format of
>>>                 the video, it doesn't sound like they're being
>>>                 hardware decoded, as I don't even see a blip on the
>>>                 cpu when the gpu is doing the decode.  Basically you
>>>                 don't have enough processing that it's dragging your
>>>                 system down with it.  If VLC, Totem, or whatever all
>>>                 behave the same, it's a system resource issue.

>>>                 I'd make sure you upgrade your drivers from actual
>>>                 AMD/ATI site, as the ones in repo tend to be old,
>>>                 you might just have some rendering challenges. 
>>>                 They've also steadily added codecs over time for
>>>                 what they can decode, so it might be fixed.  Don't
>>>                 install the radeon driver, just upgrade the fglrx
>>>                 proprietary blob driver.

>>>                 The other option is change your recording format to
>>>                 something that doesn't kill your cpu.  You can also
>>>                 transcode or reencode the existing videos. I'd
>>>                 recommend just using straight h.264 as it's all but
>>>                 standard and supported by most gpu's for decode
>>>                 now.  Plenty of info and apps out there to do this,
>>>                 but not my forte to point you at any one.  I never
>>>                 make videos, I just download straight h.264 or xvid
>>>                 videos that give me no grief.

>>>                 What format *are* these in?  Not just the container
>>>                 (ie. mkv), but the actual codec in use.  VLC will
>>>                 tell you if you look under Tool menu, and Codec
>>>                 Properties when the file is loaded.

>>>                 Reply to all for the list too, might help someone
>>>                 else out here without me having readd them back in
>>>                 disjointed thread fashion.  :)

>>>                 -mb

>>>                 On 12/26/2013 12:13 PM, Michael Havens wrote:
>>>>                 I'm not sure if I need to say this but xbmc videos
>>>>                 play with no problem; the problem is with home
>>>>                 recorded videos. If I upload the videos to you tube
>>>>                 they will play fine. As for the output of: lsmod |
>>>>                 egrep 'fgl|rade'

>>>>                  fglrx 4325524  223 <tel:4325524%20%C2%A0223>

>>>>                  I do not seem to have a radeon driver. I did
>>>>                 apt-cache search to see I could figure out what to
>>>>                 install.... and out of the list that printed up of
>>>>                 interest (i think) is:
>>>>                  fglrx-updates - Video driver for the AMD graphics
>>>>                 accelerators
>>>>                 and
>>>>                  rovclock - utility to control frequency rates of
>>>>                 your Radeon card

>>>>                 htop just showed vlc at the top of the list when I
>>>>                 started it with cpu usage between 10% and 80%.

>>>>                 I also just tried it with totem (slow video and no
>>>>                 sound) and gnome-mplayer (slow video, normal sound
>>>>                 which rushes ahead)
>>>>                 :-)~MIKE~(-:

>>>>                 $ apt-cache search radeon
>>>>                 libdrm-radeon1 - Userspace interface to
>>>>                 radeon-specific kernel DRM services -- runtime
>>>>                 libdrm-radeon1-dbg - Userspace interface to
>>>>                 radeon-specific kernel DRM services -- debugging
>>>>                 symbols
>>>>                 radeontool - utility to control ATI Radeon
>>>>                 backlight functions on laptops
>>>>                 xserver-xorg-video-ati - X.Org X server -- AMD/ATI
>>>>                 display driver wrapper
>>>>                 xserver-xorg-video-ati-dbg - X.Org X server --
>>>>                 AMD/ATI display driver wrapper (debugging symbols)
>>>>                 xserver-xorg-video-radeon - X.Org X server --
>>>>                 AMD/ATI Radeon display driver
>>>>                 xserver-xorg-video-radeon-dbg - X.Org X server --
>>>>                 AMD/ATI Radeon display driver (debugging symbols)
>>>>                 xvba-va-driver - XvBA-based backend for VA API (AMD
>>>>                 fglrx implementation)
>>>>                 fglrx - Video driver for the AMD graphics accelerators
>>>>                 fglrx-amdcccle - Catalyst Control Center for the
>>>>                 AMD graphics accelerators
>>>>                 fglrx-amdcccle-updates - Catalyst Control Center
>>>>                 for the AMD graphics accelerators
>>>>                 fglrx-dev - Video driver for the AMD graphics
>>>>                 accelerators (devel files)
>>>>                 fglrx-updates - Video driver for the AMD graphics
>>>>                 accelerators
>>>>                 fglrx-updates-dev - Video driver for the AMD
>>>>                 graphics accelerators (devel files)
>>>>                 mplayer2 - next generation movie player for
>>>>                 Unix-like systems
>>>>                 rovclock - utility to control frequency rates of
>>>>                 your Radeon card
>>>>                 atitvout - ATI TV Out Support Program
>>>>                 gatos - ATI All-in-Wonder TV capture software