hdhomerun and vlc for Linux

[Scott Ehrlich]

On Sun, 16 Sep 2007, Kristian Erik Hermansen wrote:

> If vlc is crashing, generate a core dump and submit it to the
> developers.  If it is acting very strangely, the video may not have
> been encoded properly and/or vlc has not implemented the decoder
> properly.  I found something similar to be the case with gstreamer's
> AAC/MP4 support.  If I used gstreamer to make some non-standard files
> for my ipod, then they would not work correctly in the ipod and/or
> would be skippy in various media players.  When I actually encoded the
> files myself with faac, suddenly the ipod and all my media players
> were happy.  I assume this is because faac encoded the files properly,
> but gstreamer didn't.  I didn't analyze the files or do any
> binary-diffing, but this is what appears to be the case...
> -- 
> Kristian Erik Hermansen
>

Wow - what a difference enabling the right options does!

Check out: http://wiki.videolan.org/UnixCompile

Use their default compile options, then run vlc!

What a _heck_ of a difference.

Scott

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