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| jethroemmanuel | How can I make PulseAudio Volume Control the default sound controller? With an icon in the panel to make adjusting the sound faster and easily. | 07:24 |
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| palasso | Hello I installed Ubuntu-MATE 16.04 on a Raspberry Pi 2. Is there a way to have smooth playback of video files? | 19:20 |
| ouroumov_ | hello palasso | 19:21 |
| ouroumov_ | palasso, have you checked our forums? | 19:21 |
| palasso | Yeah I have | 19:21 |
| palasso | I did all the updates and configured VLC to use OpenMax IL | 19:21 |
| palasso | I'm not sure if OpenMax IL works on a RPi 2 or it requires a RPi 3 | 19:22 |
| palasso | I also used ovxplayer through the terminal which seems to work | 19:22 |
| palasso | While VLC doesn't produce smooth playback | 19:23 |
| * alkisg did manage smooth playback with vlc on an rpi2 a few months ago... and then threw the pi2 away because it's such lame hardware :) | 19:23 | |
| alkisg | Good for a weather station, but certainly not for a desktop | 19:23 |
| palasso | alkisg: is there any configuration you did? | 19:24 |
| alkisg | If I remember correctly, it only involved installing a few packages and selecting the correct output device on vlc | 19:24 |
| palasso | I also tried ffplay -vcodec h264_mmal video.mp4 but it also wasn't able to produce smooth playback | 19:27 |
| palasso | Only thing that worked was ovxplayer | 19:27 |
| alkisg | Yeah, lame hardware with special considerations and special programs just to play a video... | 19:27 |
| palasso | alkisg: do you remember what was the correct output device? I selected OpenMax IL as suggested on the release notes | 19:28 |
| alkisg | I think that was the one, yeah | 19:28 |
| palasso | I didn't install any additional packages, do you remember which ones were they? Were they drivers? additional software for vlc? (didn't know this kind of thing exists for vlc) | 19:29 |
| alkisg | I might have used a ppa with a special build for vlc, but it's been a long time | 19:29 |
| alkisg | But since you're seeing that output device, it's probably in stock ubuntu by now | 19:30 |
| palasso | On the release notes of 16.04 it says that VLC contains OpenMax IL and it is available as an option in the settings | 19:30 |
| alkisg | I think I was trying around this time last year... 16.04 would have been alpha then | 19:30 |
| palasso | I think it's not part of stock ubuntu, it's pre-installed in Ubuntu-MATE 16.04 via some PPA that flexiondotorg maintains | 19:30 |
| palasso | Unless I'm wrong | 19:30 |
| palasso | alkisg: yeah back then vlc didn't have this feature in ubuntu-mate | 19:32 |
| palasso | https://ubuntu-mate.org/blog/ubuntu-mate-xenial-raspberry-pi/ | 19:32 |
| palasso | "Added OpemMAX IL hardware accelerated video playback to VLC." | 19:32 |
| palasso | "Added MMAL hardware accelerated video playback to ffmpeg." | 19:32 |
| alkisg | I had video acceleration running with that special player, omxplayer or whatever, with kodi (which uses that player as well), and with vlc | 19:33 |
| palasso | omxplayer works | 19:33 |
| alkisg | In all of those cases it was just an overlayed window, and the focus needed to be in the background window for the keys to work | 19:33 |
| alkisg | (like space for pause etc) | 19:33 |
| palasso | Also openELEC had smooth playback as well which is a Kodi distro and I believe Kodi uses omxplayer in the back-end for RPi | 19:34 |
| alkisg | I couldn't find any good way to watch youtube videos (kodi was terrible at that), and at some time I got bored with playing with such slow hardware since there are quad core/2gb ram atom pcs out there with just 60 euros... | 19:35 |
| alkisg | (intel-based tv boxes etc) | 19:36 |
| palasso | alkisg: I think I found how to make it work. I disabled window decorations and when it opens it opens in full screen mode without any GUI controls and works. Is this how it worked for you as well? | 20:16 |
| palasso | Unfortunately that way I can't click on settings and such while the movie plays | 20:17 |
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