Choppy Video and Audio in v1.1.5 on XP sp3

[wannarock]

I have the same problems with choppy, stuttering audio and video I've seen with other users on Windows XP sp3 with VLC player 1.1.5. I am having this problem with DVDs and with multiple video files. I have a good video card.

The computer:

• WindowsXP sp3
  Intel Core2Duo 2.26 GHz
  2 GB RAM
  500 GB HD with 283 GB free.

I have:

• deleted the %appdata%\vlc.
  I have completely removed the application, cache, media library, settings, rebooted and reinstalled.
  I have set all of the Prefs>Input/codecs> for DVD (with and without menus) and File caching values to 20000 ms.
  I have set the Video output module to DirectX (XP recommended).

I have narrowed my testing to a couple of files For both of the files below, Codec Details Tab is blank.
First file info:
Stream 0

• Type: Video
  Codec: MPEG-4 Video (XVID)
  Resolution: 624x352
  Frame rate: 23.976023

Stream 1

• Type: Audio
  Codec: MPEG Audio layer 1/2/3/(mpga)
  Channels: 2
  Sample rate: 24000 Hz
  Bitrate: 56 kb/s

Second file info:
Stream 0

• Type: Video
  Codec: MPEG-4 Video (DIVX)
  Resolution: 640x464
  Frame rate: 23.976023

Stream 1

• Type: Audio
  Codec: MPEG Audio layer 1/2/3/(mpga)
  Channels: 2
  Sample rate: 48000 Hz
  Bitrate: 131 kb/s

[VLC_help]

Did you try OpenGL video output module?

[wannarock]

I had not. I just tried it and the results are the same with both test files. I went to preferences(all)>video>output and selected openGL. Saved. Restarted VLC for good measure.

Choppy, stuttering audio and video on both.

[Uplifting]

I also have this same problem with WinXp sp3, after updating from 1.1.4 to 1.1.5. First update was done without deleting preference and cache. Reinstal with deleting preference and cache had no effect. Trying other audio/video modules produced no change.

However, by chance I transferred an avi file to an USB key and check it with VLC. To my surprise it played perfectly. Then I found the avi files on the hard disk which previously had the stuttering problems also played ok. However, if the USB key is removed, the stuttering returned (for the files on the HDD). In fact, when play is paused, the audio stuttering continues. This seems to be a HDD access problem, which did not happen with previous releases. What has been changed?

[VLC_help]

Nothing file access related between 1.1.4 -> 1.1.5 AFAIK.

[wannarock]

I tried both of my test files on the local HD and on a USB drive. I still have the same problem. I did not have the problem on 1.0.5 on local drives nor on USB. I never installed 1.1.4. I don't really think that matters though.

[wannarock]

So, I gave up on 1.1.5. As I stated earlier I was previously on 1.0.5. I uninstalled 1.1.5 and installed 1.1.4. I figured I'd work my way back to the latest release my files worked with. 1.1.4 - clean install - ALL DEFAULT SETTINGS fixed it. All of my video files and DVDs are playing perfectly (included the test files I mentioned above) both on the local disk and on a USB drive.

The issue is some missing test case in 1.1.5.