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VLC 1.0.0rc4 Media player .pet for Puppy
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RetroTechGuy


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PostPosted: Fri 17 Jun 2011, 15:12    Post subject: Re: FLV  
Frank Cox wrote:
I was happy with 8.6 until I tried to play downloaded flv files. Is there a way to modify 8,6 to play them or I am better off to go with 9 .9 pet?

I tried installing the newest pet and it locks the computer completely.

Or would I be better off with a completely different player?

Thanks


What version of Puppy are you running? Running 5.20, I've just used the default Gnome Player, which seems to play everything I run across... Nearly flawless...!!
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Frank Cox

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PostPosted: Fri 17 Jun 2011, 16:08    Post subject: Re: FLV  
RetroTechGuy wrote:
Frank Cox wrote:
I was happy with 8.6 until I tried to play downloaded flv files. Is there a way to modify 8,6 to play them or I am better off to go with 9 .9 pet?

I tried installing the newest pet and it locks the computer completely.

Or would I be better off with a completely different player?

Thanks


What version of Puppy are you running? Running 5.20, I've just used the default Gnome Player, which seems to play everything I run across... Nearly flawless...!!


Hi Retro:

I guess I am more retro as I am running 431. The machine I need this for is an old p4 with 500 megs of ram. When I tried Lucid it was a nightmare. Probably would be ok now that there has been time to work the bugs out somewhat,
I imagine i could play the files with lucid as live cd.
Wonder if the Gnome player in Lucid will work in 431?

I considered booting the Billy Box , the mere thought made me ill. :}

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PostPosted: Fri 17 Jun 2011, 16:32    Post subject: Re: FLV  
Frank Cox wrote:
RetroTechGuy wrote:
Frank Cox wrote:
I was happy with 8.6 until I tried to play downloaded flv files. Is there a way to modify 8,6 to play them or I am better off to go with 9 .9 pet?

I tried installing the newest pet and it locks the computer completely.

Or would I be better off with a completely different player?

Thanks


What version of Puppy are you running? Running 5.20, I've just used the default Gnome Player, which seems to play everything I run across... Nearly flawless...!!


Hi Retro:

I guess I am more retro as I am running 431. The machine I need this for is an old p4 with 500 megs of ram. When I tried Lucid it was a nightmare. Probably would be ok now that there has been time to work the bugs out somewhat,
I imagine i could play the files with lucid as live cd.
Wonder if the Gnome player in Lucid will work in 431?

I considered booting the Billy Box , the mere thought made me ill. :}

Thanks


My experience was that 4.3.1 was actually more hardware intensive (and fussier) than 5.20. And I did find 1 version of VLC that worked, but there were about a dozen that didn't...so when I crashed, I had a hell of a time finding the working version again.

BTW, I didn't like 5.11... Which version did you try?

When I tried 5.20, I almost immediately dumped 4.3.1 and upgraded...

I even managed to get 5.20 running on a 300 MHz laptop, with 192MB RAM. I did make a large swap file (~500MB).
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PostPosted: Fri 17 Jun 2011, 23:58    Post subject: Re: FLV  
[quote="RetroTechGuy"[/quote]{quote}

My experience was that 4.3.1 was actually more hardware intensive (and fussier) than 5.20. And I did find 1 version of VLC that worked, but there were about a dozen that didn't...so when I crashed, I had a hell of a time finding the working version again.

BTW, I didn't like 5.11... Which version did you try?

When I tried 5.20, I almost immediately dumped 4.3.1 and upgraded...

I even managed to get 5.20 running on a 300 MHz laptop, with 192MB RAM. I did make a large swap file (~500MB).[/quote]

I found a windows program called Format Factory that runs well under wine and it converts very fast. I am going to try the 9 whatever pet and it that does not work go back to 8.6 and convert the files.
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playdayz


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PostPosted: Mon 20 Jun 2011, 14:35    Post subject:  
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Running 5.20, I've just used the default Gnome Player, which seems to play everything I run across... Nearly flawless...!!

Great. Thanks. Lotsa testing. You might be interested in knowing that 5.2.0 and 5.2.5 use the custom ffmpeg libraries from medibuntu. There was some cell phone video that wouldn't play in the standard libraries.

The latest VLC 1.1.10 is in the puppy-lucid repo of Puppy Package Manager. If it doesn't show up, then do this
Quickpet -> More Pets -> Update Lupu PPM

BTW, In my test suite of videos there is one mpg video that VLC doesn't play correctly, that gnome-mplayer (mplayer) does play.

Also, the Instant Update 001 for Lucid 5.2.5 contains a program called ffconvert that seems to do conversions well. ffconvert is also on these forums somewhere.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?search_id=982949462&t=54056
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PostPosted: Mon 20 Jun 2011, 22:08    Post subject:  
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Running 5.20, I've just used the default Gnome Player, which seems to play everything I run across... Nearly flawless...!!

Great. Thanks.


No, the thanks go to you and to your team, Playdayz.

5.20 is truly a great system!
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