[07:24] <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.
[19:20] <palasso> Hello I installed Ubuntu-MATE 16.04 on a Raspberry Pi 2. Is there a way to have smooth playback of video files?
[19:21] <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
[19:22] <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
[19:23] <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
[19:24] <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
[19:27] <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...
[19:28] <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
[19:29] <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
[19:30] <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
[19:32] <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."
[19:33] <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)
[19:34] <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
[19:35] <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...
[19:36] <alkisg> (intel-based tv boxes etc)
[20:16] <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?
[20:17] <palasso> Unfortunately that way I can't click on settings and such while the movie plays