what principle?

My own principle.

for reference:

http://joppu.servut.us/HOW_TO_CCCP.htm

That rant, from what I can pick out from between the inside jokes and technical jargon, seems to be about bad encoding practices among video pirates. The player isn't to blame for the artifacts created by bad encoding.

It's about the fact that (earlier versions of, pre 0.9) VLC were incapable of showing styled subtitles and the codec support for MPEG-4 codecs like h.264 were horrid. Since a lot of foolish people used VLC instead of farly superior codecs or media players, encoders were forced to use inferior subtitling and older less efficient codecs with worse compression ratio that lead to lower bitrates and quality decrease. VLC is also noterious for laggy playback, pixelating artefacts when skipping frames and blurry postprocessing

I don't know if they have fixed any of this yet, but it seems that they have made some groundbreaking new features like instant pause in the latest 1.0 release, who could have dreamed of that!?

But I'm not touching VLC again anytime soon.

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Now I just have to figure out how to hook up my DVD without USB host mode.

For future reference...

This will display the N900 back camera's output on the screen:

Mplayer and VLC use the same decoders from ffmpeg, so which one is faster is the one that's newer usually, give or take a few weeks.

shadowjk: true enough, but there definitely seems to be some special ffmpeg optimization for the N900 being done by Rémi Denis-Courmont, the guy getting the VLC core ready for Maemo 5.

Talking about Rémi Denis-Courmont, he's released another version of VLC. Even more optimised and now the key presses work.

He's looking for people to build a Maemo UI for VLC, however....

GUI mockup:

(I'm gonna hate myself for this)

Edit:

Whoops, forgot the task switcher...

Does this Rémi Denis-Courmont have plans to put VLC in the extras?
Otherwise people wont find his port....