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Also, the main reason that MKV take a long time to load in Quicktime because there is a limitation since Quicktime does not natively support MKV format, but the load time is like 10-30 seconds, which isn't that bad unless you are impatient. I still use Quicktime and Perian as my main player... simply because it's more convenient. I still wouldn't recommend VLC as a main player for use for Anime as it still have issues... and it's still bloated... Even though it supports any file, 50 MB or let alone, 100mb is absurd amount of disk-space used for a media player.
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2009-03-09, 11:52 | Link #22 |
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I have never run into an issue with a recent version of VLC playing anime (and I almost exclusively use MKVs with sofstsubs). The only concrete example anyone has ever managed to give me of a recent VLC version doing something wrong with subtitles that Mplayer doesn't was mentioned in this thread, and that is only an issue if you want to use OpenGL video output (and even then I can't reproduce the issue, so I'm rather dubious as to whether the version of VLC on which this issue existed was recent...). And this bloat does not concern me in a world where even standard low-end laptop hard drive sizes are greater than 200GB. Also, I'm not sure where you're getting this 100MB size from. VLC is 50MB, even before getting Xslimmed.
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2009-03-10, 04:41 | Link #24 |
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You can download codec packs for alternative video files such as .mkv / .avi. Personally for those codec packs that didn't work on Windows Media Player for Windows 2000, I downloaded GOM player (Really good for those .mkv video files - good quality, and loads up fast without a terrible framerate at times). Realalternative works, and definently VLC media player for AVI files. I think some codec packs become installed once you download the Media Player for Vista.
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2009-03-13, 09:50 | Link #25 | |
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2009-04-05, 20:00 | Link #28 |
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VLC is ALMOST there; its main issue now is that it has some trouble with H.264 decoding on some releases. Once those are cleared, I can then put my own seal of approval on it. But then again, is there a way to verify that said encodes are actually encoded properly so I can then properly assign blame? ;)
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2009-04-05, 22:03 | Link #29 | |
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Also, to all mac users, I did not notice any improved playback with this version when compared to Perian 1.1.3; in fact, Perian still plays better than VLC, even though Perian requires MKVs to load before playing them. |
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2009-04-06, 15:54 | Link #31 | ||
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Also, Mplayer, at least in my experience, eats up a ridiculous amount of RAM, something which Perian does not do. And as this poster stated: Quote:
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2009-04-07, 15:49 | Link #33 | |
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Plus I have a few more reasons:
Well, those are my reasons for other players and against WMP for what they're worth. --Ian. |
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2009-04-07, 16:31 | Link #34 | |
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It looked as if mplayer is using less, but if you combine MPlayer OS X Extended with the mplayer window, it uses more memory than just using Quicktime to play the video. Too bad Perian doesn't have full support for ASS (such as special font effects like fading, etc.) After 21 minutes, I noticed that MPlayer Window memory usage skyrocketed to around 74 MB of memory. I guess Discerptor was right on mplayer having a big memory leak... but I wouldn't agree on using VLC though... Edit: Placed it in a graph so it's easier to interpret the results Spoiler for graph:
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2009-04-07, 20:27 | Link #35 | |
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Don't get me wrong though, I love anime_layer's Mplayer OSX Extended and I use Mplayer more than VLC (due to VLC's strange h264 reading problems on some releases), but because of the memory leak, I usually just use Perian. Last edited by Proudleaf; 2009-04-08 at 00:54. |
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