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Is MC genuinely usable for video on linux?
mwillems:
So FWIW, I use a Linux client for video playback, but I have a Linux server rather than a Windows server and use "play local file if available." In that configuration, client/server video playback works pretty robustly and I and my family have been using it daily for a year or two now. If I do a whole lot of fast seeking, I can sometimes provoke weird behavior, but I can't usually get MC to lock up at all.
That said, I had a similarly challenging experience when I had a mixture of OSs, which is why I eventually standardized on Linux.
mattkhan:
--- Quote from: mwillems on February 21, 2023, 04:05:16 pm ---So FWIW, I use a Linux client for video playback, but I have a Linux server rather than a Windows server and use "play local file if available." In that configuration, client/server video playback works pretty robustly and I and my family have been using it daily for a year or two now. If I do a whole lot of fast seeking, I can sometimes provoke weird behavior, but I can't usually get MC to lock up at all.
That said, I had a similarly challenging experience when I had a mixture of OSs, which is why I eventually standardized on Linux.
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unfortunately Linux MC has too many gaps to make that a viable option for my server but it's good to know that, if the cross platform gaps are ever closed, it improves the experience. Do you still have the UI oddities in MC itself though?
mwillems:
--- Quote from: mattkhan on February 21, 2023, 04:10:54 pm ---unfortunately Linux MC has too many gaps to make that a viable option for my server but it's good to know that, if the cross platform gaps are ever closed, it improves the experience. Do you still have the UI oddities in MC itself though?
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I don't see too many oddities, but I do have one UI oddity intermittently where I'm typing in the tagging pane and the tag window will lose focus as I'm typing and I'll have to click into the window again to finish typing, which is pretty irritating and sounds related to your search bar issue. It seems to trigger when the suggested text drop down appears with lots of choices, often when I'm typing in the genre tag.
But other than that I don't have any unusual UI experiences (at least that I recall). For example, I just tried and I can't reproduce your Open Media File or DSP studio issues on Debian Stable or Arch (both with Gnome). The open media file dialog spawns correctly on top for me, and DSP studio closes when I hit escape after opening it.
mattkhan:
--- Quote from: mwillems on February 21, 2023, 04:29:01 pm ---But other than that I don't have any unusual UI experiences (at least that I recall). For example, I just tried and I can't reproduce your Open Media File or DSP studio issues on Debian Stable or Arch (both with Gnome). The open media file dialog spawns correctly on top for me, and DSP studio closes when I hit escape after opening it.
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thanks, I'll put gnome on something here and compare
Hendrik:
For the next build I've switched converted streaming to a different mode that should be a bit more reliable (as long as you use one of the MPEG-TS formats), however the hang on seek remains. There will be another change coming down later to hopefully resolve that.
The format selection for converted streaming inside MC is also rather rigid (well, no matter how you stream converted, its the same rigidity), and I felt it would be good to have a "smart" mode that doesn't apply needless scaling. But on the other hand you probably shouldn't be using converted streaming in many cases, and we should rather work on fixing the actual reason why you use that instead.
Maybe a special streaming source that can specifically work with BDMV and just stream the right m2ts files to you without transcoding would be easy enough to create. I'll think on that part a bit.
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