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Well thats good! Pointing towards vlc specific issues ;)

those should be pretty well optimized at this point. that leaves basically the drivers if you have issues on a different player. do you have issues with audio on say youtube?

Try a different player. elisa is built on top of vlc’s codec library. see if the problem goes away. if the file’s format is rare i’d try to convert it to a new format and see if the problem is resolved.

im not too familiar with debian, so its hard to say. could be any number of issues: the type of encoding your media is in, the media player, the kernel, drivers.

what you’re running into is the system stalling usually due to unoptimized or pathological edge cases. the system load doesn’t necessarily matter. thats why it happens random and isnt repeatable.

as for your follow up question: many media players have builtin album art resolution. though not sure how to enable it.

I believe thats what apnews/reuters do and a lot of newpapers piggy back off them for national/international news but add their own spin to it.

EU was probably hoping the US would pull its head out of its ass.

Id upboat this but that might be used as evidence of libel.

That is a dynamic rate by definition, not saying its perfect. But its available to any dev whos game hits those numbers.

So is valves. Shrug. Simply using the publicly available information.

Thought i responded to this, but oh well will do it again.

Epic, EA, Microsoft, sony, ubisoft all have a long history of poor worker conditions or anti-consumer practices.

Valve and gog have 20+ years of decent but not perfect history of worker and pro gamer practices.

The contention in this thread is from people who think valve cant be trusted because capitalism and those who say as long as they continue good behavior they’re a better choice than any of the others in the space. While epic has never shown this procommunity behavior.

Basically gog is valves only real competitor and since they dont support linux or provide many of the game featurss valve does for developers its no contest.

Gog doesnt support linux or id look at them. But they also charge 30%

Thats because they have a reputational problem that makes them toxic to the gamer base. If they ever get market share that split will change willy nilly.

You go write that text book. Let me know when you publish your first game, you clearly have it all figured out! You know… minus the basics.

Your problem is you’re antivalve for reasons no one really gives a shit about. Your issues with valve are not the %age it charges for sales on its steam store, but with moral positions you have personally and it colors your viewpoints.

Facts: valve has charged a 30% commission since it made steam available for other studios to use.

Fact: no one complained for literally 15 years.

Fact: complaints about the split start after two things occurred. Massive inflation cutting into margins and steam dominating the distribution of games.

You’re arguments to date have been: Gabe/valve are bad people because they’re a monopoly! Here are issues from over a decade that are no longer even relevant.

Like if you want to argue that the percentage valve takes is too high, then sure we can discuss that. And hey, you wont even hear a peep from me in that case. Because its true imo.

But the problem is GOG also takes 30%. And every other distributor has reputational issues that make them non-starters.

unless you have a valid and active issue with valves practices that are unique to valve maybe its time to take the L, fuck off on this topic, and get a clue? Because no one is defending valve because they’re valve. We’re defending them because they’re the best company in the market for consumers.

No, I’m not. you’re assuming i am. game developers dont generally have the relationships with distributors. the whole point of a publisher is to handle that relationship + the relationship with marketing avenues.

with digital distribution the role of a publisher is greatly reduced. mostly down to just marketing.

smile the whole point of publishers back in the day before the internet was distribution and marketing. no I am not mistaking one for the other.

but no, steam has maintained its 30% cut since its inception do you know the rate publishers like EA demand? 50%. EA is just pissed valve is a better and more reasonable publisher than they are.

so long as EA and other publishers exist and are taking a bigger cut than valve. I’m happy to give valve a pass atm at the better option.

the issue at hand atm is gamers won’t tolerate price increases and inflation has cut into the original profit margin. and so publishers are running around screaming about valve’s 30% cut when they demand a larger cut.

in this case you can.

even if they do become pro-consumer you shouldn’t spend there. because it’d be a temporary affair and soon as they win market share from steam it’ll disappear.