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Re: VLC 1.1.13 problems anyone?

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Hi Pete!

On Mon, 26 Dec 2011 13:48:45 UTC, Peter Brown <losepeteSPAM-ME-NOT@ntlworld.com>
wrote:

> Hi Dariusz
> 
> 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. 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.
> >
> > 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?
> >
> 
> 
> 
> Do you have gcc446.dll somewhere on your libpath?
> 
> I installed it as it is required for the latest odin build and found vlc 
> now has a qt gui again.
> 
> If you do not have this dll file get it here 
> http://ignum.dl.sourceforge.net/project/ecsports/GCC%20Runtime%20DLLs/gcc446.zip


Yup, you were right on the money here...gcc446.dll was missing on my 
system...installing it allowed VLC to function correctly. 

I responded to KO's post, I'm very curious why the behaviour with the missing 
DLL...seems so awefully similar to my Firefox experience.

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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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