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Re: VLC 1.1.13 problems anyone?

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Hi KO!

On Mon, 26 Dec 2011 13:14:32 UTC, KO Myung-Hun <komh@chollian.net> wrote:

> Hi/2.
> 
> Dariusz Piatkowski wrote:
> > The latest version of the OS/2 VLC player just got released...I downloaded 
> > 1.1.13, was previously using 1.1.11.
> > 
> > Here is the strange situation I'm seeing, I have the VLC frame running in a 
> > separate window then the video playback. With 1.1.13 the video window frame 
> > shows up fine and plays back fine, however the actual VLC window frame (where 
> > all program controls exist) is nowhere to be found. 
> 
> Do you mean you didn't check 'Preferences/Interface/Look and fee/Embed
> video in interface' ?


Actually, with this release, it appears that the previous INI file was either 
not-detected, or ignored. I had always set the 'Embed video in interface' to OFF
(meaning, no check mark there), so yes, the answer to your question is : YES, I 
did not have it checked. 

But...as Peter Brown posted in another response, including gcc446.dll all of a 
sudden makes VLC work just fine. This is how I discovered that the INI file I 
had previously used was no longer being honoured and that setting I mentioned 
above was now actually CHECKED...

12-16-11   4:01a    131447         124  gcc446.dll


> I'm sorry I cannot reproduce this problem at all.
> 
> But I want to confirm that this is a problem of a multi-core system. How
> about disabling other cores except 1 core ?

OK, shutting OFF the 3 of the 4 cores (using SETPROC utility) and renaming 
gcc446.dll to something else (thus making it inaccessible to the process) causes
the remaining single core to MAX out, running at 100% utilization. The video 
still plays, but if I chose to close the window the VLC program itself continues
to run, still maximizing the core at 100% utilization. I then kill the process, 
which does end it.

Now, as I mentioned above, Peter suggested adding gcc446.dll, sure enough, that 
allowed VLC to function correctly on my system again, with a single or multiple 
cores enabled. 

OK, so here is what I noticed: the HELP=>About screen shows the following : 
'...Compiler: gcc version 4.4.6 (GCC)...', so it certainly appears to me that 
gcc446.dll is a requirement to run 1.1.13 successfully, and as best as I could 
tell this was not listed in the README...so maybe just a missing piece of info, 
no biggie really.

But I'm curious now, why does the missing DLL (gcc446.dll) cause such a 
behaviour? The VLC control window is not displayed...and that makes sense, but 
the weird core utilization spike is just so extremely similar behaviour to the 
Firefox high-res timer issue...to the point that I'm curious what the do have to
do with each other. Is there anything I can do to help debug this? Could we 
pursue this even though this is not a real VLC problem?

Thanks KO for the great work, as always!

-Dariuss

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VLC 1.1.13 problems anyone? "Dariusz Piatkowski" <dariusz@_NO-SPAM_mnsi.net> - 2011-12-26 00:05 +0000
  Re: VLC 1.1.13 problems anyone? Peter Brown <losepeteSPAM-ME-NOT@ntlworld.com> - 2011-12-26 01:04 +0000
    Re: VLC 1.1.13 problems anyone? "Dariusz Piatkowski" <dariusz@_NO-SPAM_mnsi.net> - 2011-12-26 04:21 +0000
      Re: VLC 1.1.13 problems anyone? Peter Brown <losepeteSPAM-ME-NOT@ntlworld.com> - 2011-12-26 12:28 +0000
        Re: VLC 1.1.13 problems anyone? "Dariusz Piatkowski" <dariusz@_NO-SPAM_mnsi.net> - 2011-12-26 14:29 +0000
  Re: VLC 1.1.13 problems anyone? "John Varela" <newlamps@verizon.net> - 2011-12-26 02:06 +0000
  Re: VLC 1.1.13 problems anyone? KO Myung-Hun <komh@chollian.net> - 2011-12-26 22:14 +0900
    Re: VLC 1.1.13 problems anyone? "Dariusz Piatkowski" <dariusz@_NO-SPAM_mnsi.net> - 2011-12-27 04:02 +0000
      Re: VLC 1.1.13 problems anyone? KO Myung-Hun <komh@chollian.net> - 2011-12-31 20:45 +0900
        Re: VLC 1.1.13 problems anyone? "John Small" <jsmall@os2world.net> - 2011-12-31 11:54 +0000
          Re: VLC 1.1.13 problems anyone? KO Myung-Hun <komh@chollian.net> - 2011-12-31 21:00 +0900
        Re: VLC 1.1.13 problems anyone? "Dariusz Piatkowski" <dariusz@_NO-SPAM_mnsi.net> - 2011-12-31 14:16 +0000
      Re: VLC 1.1.13 problems anyone? KO Myung-Hun <komh@chollian.net> - 2011-12-31 20:45 +0900
  Re: VLC 1.1.13 problems anyone? Peter Brown <losepeteSPAM-ME-NOT@ntlworld.com> - 2011-12-26 13:48 +0000
    Re: VLC 1.1.13 problems anyone? "Dariusz Piatkowski" <dariusz@_NO-SPAM_mnsi.net> - 2011-12-27 04:04 +0000
      Re: VLC 1.1.13 problems anyone? Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> - 2011-12-26 22:30 -0800
        Re: VLC 1.1.13 problems anyone? "Dariusz Piatkowski" <dariusz@_NO-SPAM_mnsi.net> - 2011-12-27 14:16 +0000
          Re: VLC 1.1.13 problems anyone? Steve Wendt <spamsux@forgetit.org> - 2011-12-27 19:41 -0800
            Re: VLC 1.1.13 problems anyone? "Mat Nieuwenhoven" <mnieuw@dontincludethis.zap.a2000.nl> - 2011-12-28 16:28 +0100
              Re: VLC 1.1.13 problems anyone? "Dariusz Piatkowski" <dariusz@_NO-SPAM_mnsi.net> - 2011-12-28 18:27 +0000
              Re: VLC 1.1.13 problems anyone? Steve Wendt <spamsux@forgetit.org> - 2011-12-28 22:52 -0800
                Re: VLC 1.1.13 problems anyone? Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> - 2011-12-28 23:10 -0800
                Re: VLC 1.1.13 problems anyone? "Ruediger Ihle" <NO_SPAM_R.Ihle@S-t.De> - 2011-12-29 07:31 +0000
                Re: VLC 1.1.13 problems anyone? Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> - 2011-12-28 23:57 -0800
                Re: VLC 1.1.13 problems anyone? Steve Wendt <spamsux@forgetit.org> - 2011-12-29 21:20 -0800
                Re: VLC 1.1.13 problems anyone? Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> - 2011-12-30 00:24 -0800
              Re: VLC 1.1.13 problems anyone? KO Myung-Hun <komh@chollian.net> - 2011-12-31 20:53 +0900
            Re: VLC 1.1.13 problems anyone? Paul Ratcliffe <abuse@orac12.clara34.co56.uk78> - 2011-12-28 17:38 +0000

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