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Originally Posted by baobob
Nop: since VLC embeds all the codecs needed, I have not to install such a codec pack.
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OK, so you perked my curiousity. I flashed up my WinXP for the first time, in "I don't remember when". It was an incredible pain to boot, as the anti-virus definitions were horribly out of date, as was the firewall horribly out of date, ... and I had a reboot forced on me by the firewall
, and I had to wait an incredibly long time (in addition to the already slow WinXP boot time) for those to sort themselves.
Anyway, that WinXP boot/update stuff finally finished. I then played an flv video file and an mpeg video file with vlc under WinXP.
Frankly, quality in WinXP was very pixelated compared to what I get in openSUSE. My openSUSE vlc was far superior in video quality to that on WinXP. ... The audio quality was the same.
Why the difference? I suspect video drivers, but I'm not really that curious to waste time in WinXP to try tune. I proved a point to my satisfication, which is what ever OS one takes the time to tune, is likely to get that last bit of performance. Clearly in my case, since I use openSUSE 99.99% of the time, and I have done so for over 10 years now, it is kept tuned, and is significantly superior to Windows for me.
New Linux users (but old hand Windows users) will mostly likely have a different experience. It takes time to learn the "tricks of an OS". And that is true whether one's OS is Linux, MacIntosh, or Windoze.