Problem reading videos

[Mikkyo]

Hi buddies !

I'm new using Raspberry pi 2, and i was wondering if there is a way to properly watch a movie using my Raspberry pi 2.
I'm using Ubuntu Mate as operating system.
Everytime I try to watch a video on Youtube, there is no problem, i just get a 360p quality but it's ok.
But when i try .avi or .mp4 with VLC, there is like an image per 10seconds.

Is that normal ? Or did I make a wrong configuration ?

Thx in advance for your reply.

Newbily,
Mikkyo.

[fruitoftheloom]

Hi buddies !

I'm new using Raspberry pi 2, and i was wondering if there is a way to properly watch a movie using my Raspberry pi 2.
I'm using Ubuntu Mate as operating system.
Everytime I try to watch a video on Youtube, there is no problem, i just get a 360p quality but it's ok.
But when i try .avi or .mp4 with VLC, there is like an image per 10seconds.

Is that normal ? Or did I make a wrong configuration ?

Thx in advance for your reply.

Newbily,
Mikkyo.

Install Raspbian OS and kweb would be my recommendation

[Mikkyo]

Oh ! Thanks !
I will try it and will put an udpate if there is something new

Hi buddies !

I'm new using Raspberry pi 2, and i was wondering if there is a way to properly watch a movie using my Raspberry pi 2.
I'm using Ubuntu Mate as operating system.
Everytime I try to watch a video on Youtube, there is no problem, i just get a 360p quality but it's ok.
But when i try .avi or .mp4 with VLC, there is like an image per 10seconds.

Is that normal ? Or did I make a wrong configuration ?

Thx in advance for your reply.

Newbily,
Mikkyo.

Install Raspbian OS and kweb would be my recommendation

[Mikkyo]

Apparently that's work well :]
But the screen is not in the application, it's like the screen is outsite the application.
And i have trouble to read youtube video in Kweb.

I will make another try.

Thx :]

[allfox]

Well, I think OP means Youtube is acceptable, but local .mp4 files is slow? Is that you mean?

Could you try using omxplayer instead of VLC? I was told that default VLC installation is not hardware accelerated, so could be slow.

So try this:

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$  omxplayer [your .mp4 file]

Pi should handle 720p H.264 in .mp4 container fluently, I tried that before, with an old Pi 1 B.

There is a method to get VLC hardware accelerated, need some digging job into this forum.

[Mikkyo]

Well, I think OP means Youtube is acceptable, but local .mp4 files is slow? Is that you mean?

Could you try using omxplayer instead of VLC? I was told that default VLC installation is not hardware accelerated, so could be slow.

So try this:

Code: Select all

$  omxplayer [your .mp4 file]

Pi should handle 720p H.264 in .mp4 container fluently, I tried that before, with an old Pi 1 B.

There is a method to get VLC hardware accelerated, need some digging job into this forum.

Thanks for your answer.
When i use omxplayer, that works very good :]
But i can't play a video on youtube, i don't know how to force omxplayer to play the video for me.

Thx for everything