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Redacted wrote: Fri Feb 19, 2021 8:17 am
Dedoimedo has a review that's rather negative.
"The video clips actually open in SEPARATE window! You get a borderless frame that plays the actual content, with no controls whatsoever. Mouse clicks don't pause the video, you need the space bar, or to switch context to the main interface."
Have to agree with him, that creates a horrendous workflow.
MX-19-KDE x64, on Ryzen 5, 16GB RAM, SSD. Nvidia graphics.
The point-and-click UI is good (Short-&-Simple) for initial learning, shifts+keystroke UI is good for efficiency and sophistication (aka complexity) - perhaps touch UI is better for some purposes/hardware. Best practice is to have all options available.
Kaffeine uses the VLC library and presents a simplified UI for recording or watching broadcast TV (or playing dvd,…).
Perhaps other overlay-apps will provide similar UI services?
(I know, adding layers ramps up complexity, and is not often best-practice.)
(slightly off-topic)
VLC can be useful for evaluating tracks on a plastic disc; what other app is good for this with DVDs?
I used to favor VLC, until an errant drag-and-drop instead of mouse-move put something in the filesystem that sends it into segfault (CPU over 60%, then RAM to 98%) - now it won't even work from most live distros.
[update: vlc-3.0.13 didn't break my kaffeine, nor did it fix my segfault.]
Last edited by Somewhat Reticent on Sun Jun 06, 2021 5:08 pm, edited 2 times in total.
