[theora] Bad results, encoding keynote presentation videos

[Basil Mohamed Gohar]

 On 08/12/2010 10:55 AM, j at v2v.cc wrote:
> On 08/12/2010 02:57 PM, Orton AKINCI aka .-_-. wrote:
>> i had the same issue for my theora videos encoded with ffmpeg2theora
>> using libtheora 1.1 20090822 with still frames when playing with vlc...
>> still frames play only for one frame, no matter how long they are... but
>> i do not think that this is the problem with ffmpeg2theora or libtheora
>> it uses... even though i didn't check it with latest builds of
>> libtheora, i think  this is the problem with vlc, not with thora. my
>> videos do play well with firefox... however, when people download the
>> video and try to play it with vlc, the problem occurs...
> this was a bug in vlc not handling empty frames, those are used if
> nothing changes compared to the previous frame, only theora 1.1 started
> to make use of that feature. this should have been fixed in VLC by now.
> if it still exists, please file a bug with vlc and provide a sample.
>
> j
What version of VLC are you using, Michael?  If you're using something
before 1.1.0, try getting the most recent version and trying again.