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Post#1 by Testuser » 08 Dec 2021, 17:49

Hi Team,

Can anyone provide a working version of latest VLC player for Porteus 5.0 RC3 LXDE?

The one in RC1 is not working in RC3.

Tried a VLC appimage but it is consuming more system resources compared to normal version or MPV for a same video file.

Thanks.

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Post#2 by Ed_P » 08 Dec 2021, 18:44

In rc3 Celluloid plays mp4 files for me.
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Post#3 by Rava » 09 Dec 2021, 10:17

In 5.0rc3 I remove Celluloid from the module since it annoys me - taking even more resources than mpv.
When I want it slim and consuming less system resources I go for ffplay - thanks to a tip by donald :friends: - and it now is comfortable to use even for several files at once due to my make-ffplay-script and ffplay-hide_banner scripts combo. ;)

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Post#4 by Ed_P » 09 Dec 2021, 21:36

Rava wrote:
09 Dec 2021, 19:39
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Post#5 by donald » 10 Dec 2021, 17:50

@ Testuser
This one does not work?
VLC-3.0.14-Vetineri

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Post#6 by Testuser » 16 Dec 2021, 17:39

Hi Donald,

Thanks for mentioning this package.

This one is not working, I alread tried. Getting lots of plugin message. :(

Hi Rava,

Thanks for the slim version of Video player.

I will definitely give it a try once I am free.

:)

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Post#7 by Testuser » 16 Dec 2021, 18:10

Rava wrote:
09 Dec 2021, 19:39
In 5.0rc3 I remove Celluloid from the module since it annoys me - taking even more resources than mpv.
When I want it slim and consuming less system resources I go for ffplay - thanks to a tip by donald :friends: - and it now is comfortable to use even for several files at once due to my make-ffplay-script and ffplay-hide_banner scripts combo. ;)

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In that post you get the code of both scripts; and why I incorporated ffplay-hide_banner into my make-ffplay-script, and how all is to be set up and how it works.
Hi Rava,

I tried the script and this consumes more resources than mpv for same Video.

Thanks. :)

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Post#8 by Rava » 17 Dec 2021, 06:49

Testuser wrote:
16 Dec 2021, 18:10
I tried the script and this consumes more resources than mpv for same Video.
That is strange.

You can try it without my script, just use this in the xterm:

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/usr/bin/ffplay -autoexit -hide_banner -i PATH-TO-MEDIAFILE
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/usr/bin/ffplay -autoexit -hide_banner -i /mnt/sda2/video/What/Ever.mp4
if /mnt/sda2/video/What/Ever.mp4 is the valid multimedia file name for your test.

On all systems I tried mpv and ffplay so far, ffplay always used way less resources compared to mpv, same with what donald reports who initially gave me the tip of using ffplay instead of mpv…
Cheers!
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Post#9 by ncmprhnsbl » 17 Dec 2021, 08:40

Testuser wrote:
16 Dec 2021, 17:39
This one is not working, I alread tried. Getting lots of plugin message.
it won't work on it's own, it needs (for lxde):
qt5-base-5.15.2-x86_64_10-xfce-cinnamon-openbox-lxde-mate.xzm (can be got via the bundles command)
and
xcb-util-image
xcb-util-keysyms
xcb-util-renderutil
xcb-util-wm
which can be got with:

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getpkg xcb-util-image xcb-util-keysyms xcb-util-renderutil xcb-util-wm
(there's still a bunch of "stale plugin cache" errror messages, but they don't seem to affect operation..
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Post#10 by donald » 17 Dec 2021, 09:33

ncmprhnsbl wrote:
17 Dec 2021, 08:40
...there's still a bunch of "stale plugin cache" errror messages...

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/usr/lib64/vlc/vlc-cache-gen /usr/lib64/vlc/plugins/

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Post#11 by ncmprhnsbl » 17 Dec 2021, 13:03

donald wrote:
17 Dec 2021, 09:33
/usr/lib64/vlc/vlc-cache-gen /usr/lib64/vlc/plugins/
right, thanks donald
this is usually done on package installation by the doinst.sh script in the package, which i guess doesn't work properly when converting to it a module.. or the cache generated (usr/lib64/vlc/plugins.dat) is not universal..
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Post#12 by Testuser » 17 Dec 2021, 18:29

Rava wrote:
17 Dec 2021, 06:49
Testuser wrote:
16 Dec 2021, 18:10
I tried the script and this consumes more resources than mpv for same Video.
That is strange.

You can try it without my script, just use this in the xterm:

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/usr/bin/ffplay -autoexit -hide_banner -i PATH-TO-MEDIAFILE
e.g.

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/usr/bin/ffplay -autoexit -hide_banner -i /mnt/sda2/video/What/Ever.mp4
if /mnt/sda2/video/What/Ever.mp4 is the valid multimedia file name for your test.

On all systems I tried mpv and ffplay so far, ffplay always used way less resources compared to mpv, same with what donald reports who initially gave me the tip of using ffplay instead of mpv…
Hi Rava,

Thanks much for quick response.

still ffplay uses more resources for me. MPV stili uses less resource. Also I beleive my video drivers are loaded by the kernel, which is also a factor for resource usage while playing a video file.

Hi ncmprhnsbl

I will try vlc with the mentioned files as well.

Thanks much. :hi:

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Post#13 by Testuser » 17 Dec 2021, 18:49

Tried the vlc like you mentioned after instllation of all files as mentioned vlc started working.\

Just one bug, inbuild subtiles (subtitile hardcored to the videos) not working, getting below error.

Unidentified codec:
VLC could not identify the audio or video codec

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Post#14 by Rava » 18 Dec 2021, 07:01

Testuser wrote:
17 Dec 2021, 18:29
still ffplay uses more resources for me. MPV stili uses less resource. Also I beleive my video drivers are loaded by the kernel, which is also a factor for resource usage while playing a video file.
If your video drivers are indeed loaded by the kernel it could be mpv uses such drivers while ffplay relies on at least some own ones?
I have no clue how that technically works, but you are the first person to report ffplay using more resources than mpv.

I use the Nvidia own driver especially compiled for my kernel, so it could be different when one uses the hardware specific drivers. (module 010-nvidia-340.108-k.5.4.30-porteus-v5.0-x86_64_rava.xzm - and it has aside from the driver version (340.108) the kernel version included as part of its name in case you want to know my used kernel version)
Cheers!
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