Status of Kaffeine?

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Thu Feb 19 19:05:00 UTC 2009


On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 13:19 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
>  > VLC is my first-choice video player (I use Amarok for audio) but
> lately
> > it's been giving very choppy performance, especially at the start of
> > videos (both .avi and .iso). I'm using PulseAudio and everything
> else
> > seems to work. The same videos work fine in Mplayer.
> >
> I haven't tried it before for video, but for audio it is unbearably
> horrible, 
> stuttering all over the place.  DragonPlayer is so much better.   Out
> of 
> curiosity I just fed the sme VOB from a camcorder recording to each of
> the 
> apps I have installed.  DragonPlayer was the only one to play it
> without 
> stuttering.  VLC was the worst.

I haven't heard of DragonPlayer. I see it has a web page, but isn't in
the repos. Maybe I'll try it.

poc




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