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Author: Michael Havens
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Subject: Re: vlc
okay... I looked on ebay and I see one:

2GB Dell Dimension C521 9200c 5100c XPS 200 210 Low Profile Slim PC Video
Card
<http://www.ebay.com/itm/2GB-Dell-Dimension-C521-9200c-5100c-XPS-200-210-Low-Profile-Slim-PC-Video-Card-/160815335336?pt=PCC_Video_TV_Cards&hash=item25715747a8>

for over $60 and another:

NEW Dell Dimension C521 9200C 5100C XPS 210 Slim 256MB PCI-E DMS-59 Video
Card
<http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-Dell-Dimension-C521-9200C-5100C-XPS-210-Slim-256MB-PCI-E-DMS-59-Video-Card-/390862072279?pt=PCC_Video_TV_Cards&hash=item5b0131e9d7>

for under $25. As you can tell I'm not a gamerso I bet the cheaper one is
good enough.

the current videos inf (obtained with lspci) is00:00.0 RAM memory: NVIDIA
Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:00.1 RAM memory: NVIDIA Corporation C51 Memory Controller 0 (rev a2)
00:00.2 RAM memory: NVIDIA Corporation C51 Memory Controller 1 (rev a2)
00:00.3 RAM memory: NVIDIA Corporation C51 Memory Controller 5 (rev a2)
00:00.4 RAM memory: NVIDIA Corporation C51 Memory Controller 4 (rev a2)
00:00.5 RAM memory: NVIDIA Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:00.6 RAM memory: NVIDIA Corporation C51 Memory Controller 3 (rev a2)
00:00.7 RAM memory: NVIDIA Corporation C51 Memory Controller 2 (rev a2)
00:02.0 PCI bridge: NVIDIA Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:03.0 PCI bridge: NVIDIA Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:04.0 PCI bridge: NVIDIA Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:05.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation C51 [GeForce 6150 LE]
(rev a2)
00:09.0 RAM memory: NVIDIA Corporation MCP51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:0a.0 ISA bridge: NVIDIA Corporation MCP51 LPC Bridge (rev a3)
00:0a.1 SMBus: NVIDIA Corporation MCP51 SMBus (rev a3)
00:0a.2 RAM memory: NVIDIA Corporation MCP51 Memory Controller 0 (rev a3)
00:0b.0 USB controller: NVIDIA Corporation MCP51 USB Controller (rev a3)
00:0b.1 USB controller: NVIDIA Corporation MCP51 USB Controller (rev a3)
00:0e.0 IDE interface: NVIDIA Corporation MCP51 Serial ATA Controller (rev
a1)
00:0f.0 IDE interface: NVIDIA Corporation MCP51 Serial ATA Controller (rev
a1)
00:10.0 PCI bridge: NVIDIA Corporation MCP51 PCI Bridge (rev a2)
00:10.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation MCP51 High Definition Audio (rev
a2)

So is the cheaper product good enough?

:-)~MIKE~(-:

On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 11:15 PM, Michael Havens <> wrote:

> hey.... I found the system monitor. you were correct; the cpu runs at
> about 50% until I start running a video. At that point usage spikes to
> 100%. I guess I will need to get a video card with gpu. Can anyone
> recommend a low-profile card (I think that is what I need).
>
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
> On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 7:18 PM, Michael Havens <> wrote:
>
>> yeah? I remember uploading a video that was jumpy to youtube and it
>> played normally. Does that bit of information narrow the problem?
>> what is the command to get the monitor up? 'apropos monitor' isn't much
>> help.
>>
>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 6:54 PM, Joseph Sinclair <
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> Mike,
>>> There are a few probable sources of the behavior you're experiencing:
>>> 1) You may have a video chip that doesn't have good support in Linux, or
>>> at least not good enough with respect to video display to handle AVCHD
>>> video.
>>> 2) Your computer main CPU may not be up to the task of decoding the
>>> video in realtime.
>>> 3) Your disk may not be able to read fast enough to keep the video
>>> buffer full.
>>>
>>> All three possibilities would cause frame drops and skips.
>>> The Audio playing clean suggests it's not a disk speed issue, rather the
>>> AVCHD decoder isn't able to keep up on your system. (or, as others have
>>> suggested, libavcodec might be buggy and need to be updated).
>>>
>>> The next thing you might check is that you're running the best available
>>> video driver for your hardware, as video playback is very heavily dependent
>>> on good support of the GPU hardware.
>>>
>>> You might also try running the system monitor while you play a video,
>>> and see what ends up taking the most CPU and/or RAM (and which of those
>>> resources is most heavily loaded).
>>> If VLC is maxing out your CPU, then it's probably the system unable to
>>> keep up or a buggy version of libavcodec. If X is maxing out the CPU, then
>>> it's probably inadequate support for the GPU (X is falling back to swrender
>>> too much), and looking for better drivers might help.
>>>
>>> Whatever the cause, you might be able to play the video on your current
>>> setup if you first transcode it to something easier for your system to
>>> handle, perhaps MPEG2 or MPEG4 at 720p. AVCHD is a pretty dense codec, so
>>> it can be difficult for older systems to play at full framerate.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 01/05/2015 06:21 PM, Michael Havens wrote:
>>> > vlc is playing audio just fine but the video plays a little, stops,
>>> jumps
>>> > ahead a few frames to catch up with the audio then plays a little
>>> more,
>>> > then repeats.
>>> >
>>> > To get the errors I ran vlc from the terminal:
>>> >
>>> > bmike1@c521 ~/Pictures/2013/Peru2013 $ vlc 00004.MTS
>>> > VLC media player 2.1.4 Rincewind (revision 2.1.4-0-g2a072be)
>>> > [0x1971118] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use
>>> 'cvlc'
>>> > to use vlc without interface.
>>> > "sni-qt/6719" WARN 18:17:00.958 void
>>> > StatusNotifierItemFactory::connectToSnw() Invalid interface to
>>> SNW_SERVICE
>>> > Fontconfig warning: FcPattern object size does not accept value "0"
>>> > Fontconfig warning: FcPattern object size does not accept value "0"
>>> > Fontconfig warning: FcPattern object size does not accept value "0"
>>> > Fontconfig warning: FcPattern object size does not accept value "0"
>>> > [0x7fbf14001248] main vout display error: Failed to resize display
>>> > [h264 @ 0x7fbf2cc97000] illegal short term buffer state detected
>>> > bmike1@c521 ~/Pictures/2013/Peru2013 $
>>> >
>>> > and I noticed the third line so I ran that as well.
>>> >
>>> > bmike1@c521 ~/Pictures/2013/Peru2013 $ vlc 00004.MTS
>>> > VLC media player 2.1.4 Rincewind (revision 2.1.4-0-g2a072be)
>>> > [0x165b118] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use
>>> 'cvlc'
>>> > to use vlc without interface.
>>> > "sni-qt/6649" WARN 18:09:38.641 void
>>> > StatusNotifierItemFactory::connectToSnw() Invalid interface to
>>> SNW_SERVICE
>>> > Fontconfig warning: FcPattern object size does not accept value "0"
>>> > Fontconfig warning: FcPattern object size does not accept value "0"
>>> > Fontconfig warning: FcPattern object size does not accept value "0"
>>> > Fontconfig warning: FcPattern object size does not accept value "0"
>>> > [0x7f1fc8001248] main vout display error: Failed to resize display
>>> > [h264 @ 0x7f1fdcc96e20] illegal short term buffer state detected
>>> > bmike1@c521 ~/Pictures/2013/Peru2013 $ cvlc 00004.MTS
>>> > VLC media player 2.1.4 Rincewind (revision 2.1.4-0-g2a072be)
>>> > [0x2398e18] dummy interface: using the dummy interface module...
>>> > Fontconfig warning: FcPattern object size does not accept value "0"
>>> > Fontconfig warning: FcPattern object size does not accept value "0"
>>> > Fontconfig warning: FcPattern object size does not accept value "0"
>>> > Fontconfig warning: FcPattern object size does not accept value "0"
>>> > [0x7fdb880020e8] main vout display error: Failed to resize display
>>> > [h264 @ 0x7fdb78c97fc0] illegal short term buffer state detected
>>> > Fontconfig warning: FcPattern object size does not accept value "0"
>>> > Fontconfig warning: FcPattern object size does not accept value "0"
>>> > Fontconfig warning: FcPattern object size does not accept value "0"
>>> > Fontconfig warning: FcPattern object size does not accept value "0"
>>> > [0x7fdb78c844b8] main vout display error: Failed to resize display
>>> > [h264 @ 0x7fdb88c28120] illegal short term buffer state detected
>>> > [0x7fdb88c277e8] avcodec decoder error: more than 5 seconds of late
>>> video
>>> > -> dropping frame (computer too slow ?)
>>> > [h264 @ 0x7fdb88c28120] reference picture missing during reorder
>>> > [h264 @ 0x7fdb88c28120] Missing reference picture
>>> > [h264 @ 0x7fdb88c28120] reference picture missing during reorder
>>> > [h264 @ 0x7fdb88c28120] Missing reference picture
>>> > [h264 @ 0x7fdb88c28120] reference picture missing during reorder
>>> > [h264 @ 0x7fdb88c28120] Missing reference picture
>>> >
>>> > and I see the eighth frame from the bottom. It seems my computer is too
>>> > slow?
>>> >
>>> > :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>> >
>>> > On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 6:04 PM, sean <> wrote:
>>> >
>>> >> How about you actually tell us what problem you are having? Errors?
>>> >> On Jan 5, 2015 6:00 PM, "Michael Havens" <> wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >>> My google search told me to:
>>> >>>
>>> >>>     sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras

>>> >>>
>>> >>> which I did. However immediately after pressing 'enter' remembered
>>> >>> (thinking I did) installing the extras after installing Mint so I
>>> >>> <cntrl-c>ed. What should I do? Should I run that command? Why didn't
>>> the
>>> >>> extras install after I first installed Mint?
>>> >>>
>>> >>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>> >>>
>>> >>> On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 5:28 PM, Michael Torres <
>>> >
>>> >>> wrote:
>>> >>>
>>> >>>> Make sure all the codec are installed
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> Do a search for your os and vlc codec and ypu should get the yum or
>>> >>>> get-apt install commands
>>> >>>> On Jan 5, 2015 5:20 PM, "Michael Havens" <> wrote:
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>>> I can't run video successfully with vlc. Would someone who knows
>>> >>>>> something about vlc take one of my home videos and help me set vlc
>>> up to
>>> >>>>> run correctly?
>>> >>>>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
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