I am not shure about VLC here....I never used my Raspi together with any desktop environment. Well at least not anymore afterl I saw how slow the Raspi behaves when running LXDE. :oops:
The main reason I stick to omxplayer is simply that it works from the console and plays back perfectly your 1080p ...

I have not seen any working solution to play back Youtube stuff directly from their servers within a browser.

A feasibly way though is to grab their content, store it as local file and play back the local copy of the file with a player of your choice.

i am using Raspbian on my Raspi with youtube ...

Hi all,

it is quite a while that I have been using a bash script from here (https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/TV_Tuner) which combine szap and dd to record DVB streams for any supported device.
I like to use this script because it produces much lower CPU load then GnuTV for example. Unfortunately szap ...

I am sorry for the loss of your wife ! In regard to your questions it seems to me that you do not want to spent too many time editing those videos, right ?

Beside using a transfer service the monetary cheap way would be buying a used Haupauge hardware encoding device (like a PVR150 PCI card or a ...

keet,

re-encoding all your movies to make subtitles work sound like a real PITA to me. May be you should try to get another player which supports native VOBSUB subtitles inside an MKV and convert all your DVDs to MKV via a simple script and MakeMKV ?

There are a lot of hardware players. Even a ...

Warning: Possibly stupid ideas follow :)

1) Trying a completely different branch / version of WINE rather than trying different RCs of the same version.
2) Run WINE games inside a separate XServer
3) Start WINE plus game inside a script followed by a wineserver -k if you exit the game
4) Try ...

The question that remains for me is if you really gain any benefits from this.

Your shell script is more transparent and has less external dependencies.

makemkv sports both a GUI and a commandline version.

The commandline version is called makemkvcon

Have a look here:
http://www.makemkv.com/developers/usage.txt

Nice script!
But i think there might be problems with the subtitles in relation to the video-format: afaik mkv-files cannot contain subs in vobsub-format and if you dump a video-stream (as vob) with mplayer there is no way to (de)activate the subs in it.
I can only second it..nice script.

MKV ...

Yeah, true...but this not exactly how mkvmerge works :)

Its more likes either raw streams (vobsub files, DTS, AC3, h264) and source MKV in order to output to target MKV.

Once you have arranged with this approach the workflow is pretty nicely, e.g. MakeMKV for BD Shrinking plus ffmpeg plus mkvmerge ...

Niclas,

you should add solved to your first posting.


but it did require pulling the subtitles out of the vob and then pushing them back into the mkv. Seems clunky, but that is apparently the way it works.

I am not shure what it clunky about extracting the subtitles from the output vob you ...

256MB for the GPU should be sufficient since I run XBMC on an old 256 MB raspi with 128MB for the GPU. Unless I am completely wrong an basic X environment should be sufficient. What I do not know is if VLC is of any use on a Raspi since it does not support hardware decoding from the GPU. The Raspi ...

At least under Windows certain versions of VLC had severe issues with certain MKV files.
I found SMPlayer a better option for playing back HD MKVs under Linux than VLC. YMMV....

You could try another version of VLC or remux the MKV with the MKVMerge GUI.
May be this helps.

You need to use proprietary driver
A pretty general reply but so was the question of the TO.

A less general reply:
Similar to Noveau the 3D feature set provided by the free Radeon driver is sometimes / often not good enough to run more demanding games (be it WINE or native). YMMV...depending on ...

Glad it helped

Honestly even without problem I use a rather huge set of console tools, self-written scripts and GUI tools for my various burning work, since no tool incorporates all my needs.

Another may be stupid idea:
Why not try and burn your ISO with growisofs...
The is an example at the Backup to DVD Wiki entry on the syntax:
http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Backup_to_DVD

At least in commandline / bash you might get a speaking error message.

Hm, strange...
If you have an ISO you can usually burn it at every optical media (CD-R / DVD-R / BD-R) as long as the media is big enough for the ISO.
I have an external BD burner on which I burn HD MKVs files from time to time. Usually I master an ISO with UDF first by using ImgBurn under WINE and ...

The original soundtracks of Doom, Heretic and Hexen are MIDI songs and to my best knowledge thus are always depending on a working software MIDI synthesizer (e.g. Timidity). I haven't played any of them lately with MIDI songs though. For Doom I have used the available songs provided as add-on.

HTH ...

I just want to add that add-on packs for doomsday are available here:
http://www.dengine.net/addons

I would like to second the observation of musv.
I have an Liano system myself for daily use and after some experiments with fglrx and the integrated GPU, I switched to an external GPU (NVidia 9500GT). You should either consider buying an ION platform-based system (Intel Atom plus NVidia GPU) or use ...

Thanks a lot for your detailed informations. IMO Tears of Steel is not really representative for 1080p stuff. :)
While it is h264-encoded and has a width of 1920, it only has a height of 800 pix which requires a lot less CPU power than a full 1080p movie does.

I am still unshure how this stuff ...

schorsch_76,

That would be cool...also please include details on the radeon version you installed and how your xinellioutput is configured.

I am aware that xineliboutput is an output driver which allows to use plain framebuffer devices for video playback. I am also aware that you can choose ...

My E350 is really sleeping in full hd, only 20-25% CPU usage. All with open drivers xineliboutput and radeon and no fglrx.
This one got me interested.... :D

The last time I tried HD acceleration with my E350 and radeon it was plainly non-existent.
When you say HD are we talking about full HD ...

Hi,
I plan but some htpc maybe Zotac Nano XS AD11 (AMD E450). I thinking of install Openelec but since I'm gentoo user why not try it with xbmc. Do you have any performance opinion which can be faster more responsive vs. easy to install?

Openelec should working out of box, but gentto gives me wide ...

Hm, to my best knowledge omxplayer was done as proof-of-concept by the folks from the XBMC for Rasp project.