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by WorkLobster 1925 days ago
I use Whirligig, which works with a minor fix documented on ProtonDB.
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ad404b8a372f2b9 1925 days ago
Whirligig does not work for me with the recommended fix.
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WorkLobster 1925 days ago
Just to make sure we're talking about the same fix, do you mean running the LAV installer first (edit: followed by selecting DirectShow in the options)? That worked for me with Proton 5.13-6.
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ad404b8a372f2b9 1925 days ago
Welp I got curious whether I'd missed a step so I gave it a once over, took me 7 hours to get it working. Turns out Proton does not like to run from an NTFS partition so I reinstalled steam on ext4. Now it runs but I couldn't get Direct Show to work, only the VLC video-path. I assume the LAV installer failed somehow. I also had to mount bind my external drive in my home folder otherwise it wouldn't see it. And I also had to reset whirligig's settings manually in the prefix folder (steamapps/compatdata/451650/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/Application Data/Whirligig/production) because it randomly stops accepting inputs. Just writing it all out in case somehow comes across it.
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WorkLobster 1924 days ago
Oh yeah, that's a fair point, I have encountered the input lock issue before. Hopefully it will be fixed in future.

VLC also works for me from the start, but seems to lag at higher resolutions, hence fiddling to get DirectShow working.

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