walterav Posted February 19, 2007 Share Posted February 19, 2007 Hi anyone using VIDEOLAN 0.8.6a succesfully with the "s5 beta9 kernel of semthex sse2"? With both machines "agp-titan-fx5200" or "pciexpress-GMA900" it plays everything, but with a lot of errors. I can keep watching most of the time but I have to dismiss all the errors, if i open up a error message its a kernel-fault. I will post a errorlog soon. Anyone? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42875-videolan-086a-on-sse2-1048-alot-errors/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
mifki Posted February 19, 2007 Share Posted February 19, 2007 I get erros all the time, even on my core 2 duo imac, i think its just vlc's fault Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42875-videolan-086a-on-sse2-1048-alot-errors/#findComment-306576 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schwinn555 Posted February 19, 2007 Share Posted February 19, 2007 I found a fix for this almost by mistake. Open prefrences in VLC with no movie playing. Click on Advanced arrow so it opens and shows CPU features . You also need to check the advanced box at the bottom for anything to show up. Uncheck all the boxes except for SSE3 and click on save and close VLC. I was then able to play DivX & Xvids etc normally! I was shocked it was that easy. I've not tested enough to see which of the CPU features was causing the errors. I did find that it works with both SSE3 & MMC checked . I'm guessing this will vary from machine to machine. Clearly SSE2 machines will likely work with that checked . So this would seem to be one of our HackIntosh's quirks and likely not the fault of VLC. I'm hoping this works for others as well. It's been playing fine for a couple of weeks for me. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42875-videolan-086a-on-sse2-1048-alot-errors/#findComment-306594 Share on other sites More sharing options...
walterav Posted February 19, 2007 Author Share Posted February 19, 2007 Well there are more problems... from 2 parties. 1 The hackintosh emulates sse3, but my videolan only reports that it has sse2, so there might be problems. I can not even turn off SSE3 but I could try to turn off sse2... don't know how much slower it will get... 2 I checked the videolan forums and there are lots of people on real intel macs with same problems even kernel errors. And they found the solution for some errors... there are little bugs and you might not notice them if your are a simple user. The thing is vlc works, it can even work for hours with no problems, but as soon your moving up to a lot of video playing/skipping/loading / fullscreen/ internet video's etc, thats when the errors are generated, on the vlc forum there where some problems that were easiliy to replicate stating that its videolan its code thats not final yet... As soon as i'd stop skipping frames stopping pausing fullscreen etc, it did't crash today it just plays... Guess we'll have to wait for a 1.0 release ;-) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42875-videolan-086a-on-sse2-1048-alot-errors/#findComment-306684 Share on other sites More sharing options...
thunder.scripts Posted February 24, 2007 Share Posted February 24, 2007 Yeah, it happened to me too. No kernel panics, but it crashes if you skip or pause/play many times in a row. Not too stable if you ask :S I just found this, I'll try and see what happens: I use VLC all the time but i never tried mplayer.But to let it play almost evrythibg without errors, i had to do a few thing first. set video filter to deinterlace on. install flip4mac to let it play most of the mpg's. Set every video to open with vlc, didnt have to but i prefer 1 player for all files. And most important set output to opengl, without i ha to much crashes. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42875-videolan-086a-on-sse2-1048-alot-errors/#findComment-310064 Share on other sites More sharing options...
walterav Posted February 24, 2007 Author Share Posted February 24, 2007 I will try the opengl option soon, but installing flip4mac doesn't make any sense because videolan is using its own inte3grated decoders!!! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42875-videolan-086a-on-sse2-1048-alot-errors/#findComment-310238 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sg Posted February 24, 2007 Share Posted February 24, 2007 I get erros all the time, even on my core 2 duo imac, i think its just vlc's fault weird, never noticed any issues on my setup. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42875-videolan-086a-on-sse2-1048-alot-errors/#findComment-310298 Share on other sites More sharing options...
thunder.scripts Posted February 24, 2007 Share Posted February 24, 2007 I will try the opengl option soon, but installing flip4mac doesn't make any sense because videolan is using its own inte3grated decoders!!! Yeah, I quoted the entire parragraph but OpenGL was the only important thing. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42875-videolan-086a-on-sse2-1048-alot-errors/#findComment-310572 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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