vlc

Mon Jan 5 23:15:35 MST 2015

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 <bmike1 at gmail.com> 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 <plug-discussion at stcaz.net
> > 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 at 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 at c521 ~/Pictures/2013/Peru2013 $
>> >
>> > and I noticed the third line so I ran that as well.
>> >
>> > bmike1 at 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 at 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 <sean.a.ritzler at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> How about you actually tell us what problem you are having? Errors?
>> >> On Jan 5, 2015 6:00 PM, "Michael Havens" <bmike1 at gmail.com> 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 <matorres124 at gmail.com
>> >
>> >>> 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" <bmike1 at gmail.com> 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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