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Whaawmp vs. VLC 13.37 fluxbox
Posted: 2. Jul 2011, 11:43
by loukingjr
I found this a little surprising since I thought you choose Whaawmp because it used less resources but on my install at least, which is a guest in VirtualBox, Whaawmp is taking twice as much of my CPU as VLC and on some kinds of video, eventually uses 100% and starts to stutter etc. until I quit the program. The only problem I am having with VLC is it won't adopt the gtk theme I use even when set to do so.
any thoughts?
Re: Whaawmp vs. VLC 13.37 fluxbox
Posted: 2. Jul 2011, 16:23
by gapan
loukingjr wrote:I found this a little surprising since I thought you choose Whaawmp because it used less resources
Wrong. It is used because it doesn't require restricted codecs to work.
loukingjr wrote:on some kinds of video
You'll have to be more specific than that. It is quite possible that there is something broken about those files and vlc just doesn't choke that easily.
loukingjr wrote:The only problem I am having with VLC is it won't adopt the gtk theme I use even when set to do so.
That is probably something to bug the vlc devs about.
Re: Whaawmp vs. VLC 13.37 fluxbox
Posted: 2. Jul 2011, 17:24
by loukingjr
gapan wrote:loukingjr wrote:I found this a little surprising since I thought you choose Whaawmp because it used less resources
Wrong. It is used because it doesn't require restricted codecs to work.
loukingjr wrote:on some kinds of video
You'll have to be more specific than that. It is quite possible that there is something broken about those files and vlc just doesn't choke that easily.
loukingjr wrote:The only problem I am having with VLC is it won't adopt the gtk theme I use even when set to do so.
That is probably something to bug the vlc devs about.
first I was just hazarding a guess why the whaawmp choice...
on the other hand maybe the non-restrictive codecs aren't written as well and apparently some may have memory leaks. All formats took twice the CPU but the worst was the one playing a .mov file.
as far as bugging the VLC folks, I have used, I've lost track now, but over 50 different spins of various distros and really have only run into the GTK issue with Salix. But It's not that big a deal to me. I only brought it up now and previously because I thought someone might be interested.