a high definition question about VLC 2.0

**andrew.46** · March 11th, 2012

In a completely subjective and non-scientific comparison I have found that SMPlayer/MPlayer + vdpau gives better playback than vlc + vaapi. I would be interested to hear what others think....

Edit: BTW shantiq if you want to confirm that your copy of vlc is using hardware acceleration try something like the following:

Code:

andrew@skamandros~/media/YouTube$ cvlc --ffmpeg-hw Cold_Chisel_Bow_River.mp4 
VLC media player 2.0.0 Twoflower (revision 2.0.0-0-g421a4fc)
[0x132c048] dummy interface: using the dummy interface module...
libva: libva version 0.32.0-sds2
Xlib:  extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
libva: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva: Trying to open /usr/lib64/va/drivers/nvidia_drv_video.so
libva: va_openDriver() returns 0
[0x714478] avcodec decoder: Using VA API version 0.32 for hardware decoding.

**shantiq** · March 11th, 2012

thank you for tip Andrew and it looks good i think

cvlc --ffmpeg-hw Sarah_Silverman.mkv
VLC media player 2.0.1 Twoflower (revision 2.0.0+git20120229+r120)
[0xc33098] dummy interface: using the dummy interface module...
libva: libva version 0.32.0
Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0".
libva: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva: Trying to open /usr/lib/dri/nvidia_drv_video.so
libva: va_openDriver() returns 0
[0xba2968] avcodec decoder: Using VA API version 0.32 for hardware decoding.

But for 1080p still SMplayer the only beast here on my setup

**andrew.46** · March 13th, 2012

Mind you, I picked up a decent high definition clip:

Code:

wget http://downloads.dvdloc8.com/trailers/divxdigest/star_wars_blu-ray-trailer.zip

and watched it a few times on vlc and SMPlayer and I have to confess I am no longer quite so sure.....

**krayzie906** · March 13th, 2012

Have you tried tinkering with video output settings? I have Nvidia card, and I personally use OpenGL output, but DirectX works well too.

(found image on web, not on my computer now)

**shantiq** · March 13th, 2012

thanx guys but still no dice these are my choices here

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**papibe** · March 14th, 2012

Originally Posted by shantiq

...stops and starts no flow

Is the file on the network, or is it local?

Could you confirm that for that particular file SMplayer has no problem, but VLC do?

Regards.

**shantiq** · March 14th, 2012

Originally Posted by papibe

Is the file on the network, or is it local?

Could you confirm that for that particular file SMplayer has no problem, but VLC do?

Regards.

well quite simply all 1920x1080p files play on SMplayer faultlessly and NONE on vlc on vlc they check and stutter

i thought 2.0 would have cured that but not

and clearly not a hardware issue as SMplayer is happy