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Re: VLC 1.1.13 problems anyone?

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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' ?

> Indeed, strange enough, on 
> my 4 core AMD Phenom II machine the CPU monitor goes crazy and I see all cores 
> firing endlessly. This is the sort of behaviour I have seen with Firefox when 
> not using "SET NSPR_OS2_NO_HIRES_TIMER=1" setting to avoid problems with the 
> high-resolution timer.
> 

Hmm... Strange. VLC 1.1.x does not use high-resolution timer at all.

> In comparison to 1.1.11, the player behaved just fine, no issues found and the 
> CPU utilization was negligent...barely any spikes. My Phenom is running at 4 
> GHZ, all four cores...so that is plenty of processing power.
> 
> When installing 1.1.13 I completely wiped out the previous version, so no file 
> conflicts should exist. Once I encountered the problem I also rebooted to rule 
> this out. 
> 
> Has anyone seen this as well?
> 

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 ?

Finally, I read your e-mail. However for the others encountering this
problem, I reply to newsgroup.

-- 
KO Myung-Hun

Using Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.0.14
Under OS/2 Warp 4 for Korean with FixPak #15
On AMD ThunderBird 1GHz with 512 MB RAM

Korean OS/2 User Community : http://www.ecomstation.co.kr

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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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