VLC cannot play MKV files?

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Tue Jan 26 09:12:33 PST 2016


On 2016-1-27 04:04 , Daniel J. Luke wrote:
> On Jan 26, 2016, at 11:55 AM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
>> There were performance concerns earlier in the discussion but I'm not sure if the latest version of the patch attached there resolves them.
> 
> the latest comment that mentions it says it's a 2x slowdown (better than the original 10x slowdown).
> 
> As mentioned in the ticket - this is really something that needs to be configurable if it's added (I can see how one might want this on a small SSD, but I  don't want it set on my large disk array...)

Not really thrilled by the inline hex file and shelling out to run a
command pipeline before every extract either. Seems like this could be a
configure check for the system bsdtar supporting the feature instead.

- Josh


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