Status of Kaffeine?

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 10:57 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Thursday 19 February 2009 09:23:07 Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 8:17 AM, Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com> 
> wrote:
> > > What is the status of kaffeine in relation to KDE4?  Does anyone know
> > > whether it is a porting work-in-progress, or whether the current KDE3
> > > version is the end of the line?  I no longer like amarok, and find
> > > kaffeine suits me well enough, but I'm concerned that KDE3 apps like this
> > > will just fade away.
> > >
> > > Any comfort in sight?
> > >
> > > Anne
> >
> > On the bright side, VLC is Qt now.
> 
> I know VLC is well regarded, but I never got on well with it :-(  Perhaps it 
> is time to try it again.

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.

poc