Audio dropouts, video not smooth

[parisology]

This is from another thread this week:
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Re: HD Playback Stutter - Windows 8 - Media Player OK

Unread postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » Fri Jan 18, 2013 8:37 am

parisology wrote:Any VLC version > 1.x stutters for me on windows when playing DVDs (but Media Player is fine). I tried all the settings and suggestions but no solution. I use VLC 0.9.6 and it's great.

0.9.6 is way too old and dangerous!
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Okay, I installed 2.0.5 today and it is not usable for playing DVDs on Win7-64. It will play them, but the quality is not acceptable.

1. The video playback is still not smooth. It was smooth in 0.9.6. You did something that degrades the playback starting with 1.x.
2. There is now an audio dropout every couple of seconds. I tried wav and directx.

It's not a system problem, it's in vlc.

[PocketFrog]

I'm having the same problem in 2.0.5 - tried a de/re-installation and it did seem to ease the problem for a minute or so but the problem is back.

Windows: Windows 7 Ultimate Edition (64-bit) Service Pack 1 (Build 7601)
Internet Explorer: 9.0.8112.16421
Memory (RAM): 8151 MB
CPU Info: Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-2100 CPU @ 3.10GHz
CPU Speed: 3089.6 MHz
Sound Card: Speakers (VIA High Definition A | SPDIF Interface (TX1) (VIA High | SPDIF Interface (TX0) (VIA High |
Display Adapters: NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS | NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS | RDPDD Chained DD | RDP Encoder Mirror Driver | RDP Reflector Display Driver

Any help would be appreciated.

[tnguy9696]

i have the lastest version of VLC on a windows xp intel machine. voice breaks every
Complete name : C:\d drive\Music Video's and Movies\Movies\DVDRip.XviD.avi
Format : AVI
Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
File size : 697 MiB
Duration : 1h 14mn
Overall bit rate : 1 300 Kbps
Writing application : VirtualDubMod 1.5.10.2 (build 2540/release)
Writing library : VirtualDubMod build 2540/release

Video
ID : 0
Format : MPEG-4 Visual
Format profile : Advanced Simple@L5
Format settings, BVOP : Yes
Format settings, QPel : No
Format settings, GMC : No warppoints
Format settings, Matrix : Default (H.263)
Muxing mode : Packed bitstream
Codec ID : XVID
Codec ID/Hint : XviD
Duration : 1h 14mn
Bit rate : 844 Kbps
Width : 640 pixels
Height : 272 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 2.35:1
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.202
Stream size : 452 MiB (65%)
Writing library : XviD 61

Audio
ID : 1
Format : AC-3
Format/Info : Audio Coding 3
Mode extension : CM (complete main)
Codec ID : 2000
Duration : 1h 14mn
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 448 Kbps
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Video delay : 4ms
Stream size : 240 MiB (34%)
Alignment : Split accross interleaves
Interleave, duration : 42 ms (1.00 video frame)
Interleave, preload duration : 500 ms

couple of seconds on any .264 files. enclosed is media info.