VLC Stutters on Manjaro?

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VLC Stutters on Manjaro?

Postby CompSciSarah » 13 Dec 2020 00:54

VLC Stutters When Seeking?

My VLC stutters (even for this humble 480p reading of Arthur C Clarke’s A Walk in the Dark).

This is surprising to me given my system specs (the file is local, not network) and is on my NVME hard drive.

I would not expect such seeking issues, which are only compounded when I view my 1080p school material.

Here is a video of it in action at various speeds: https://youtu.be/Gf0ixc14Ulw 1

How can I resolve this?

VLC Version: 3.0.11.1-6 (Installed from Manjaro official repository)

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System Specs:

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System: Host: MidnightStarSign Kernel: 5.9.11-3-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.0 Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.20.4 Distro: Manjaro Linux Machine: Type: Desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: PRIME X570-PRO v: Rev X.0x serial: <superuser/root required> UEFI: American Megatrends v: 1407 date: 04/02/2020 CPU: Info: 6-Core model: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen 2 L2 cache: 3072 KiB flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm bogomips: 94835 Speed: 3950 MHz min/max: 2200/3950 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz): 1: 3950 2: 3950 3: 3950 4: 3950 5: 3950 6: 3950 7: 3950 8: 3950 9: 3949 10: 3950 11: 3949 12: 3950 Graphics: Device-1: AMD Navi 10 [Radeon RX 5600 OEM/5600 XT / 5700/5700 XT] vendor: ASRock driver: amdgpu v: kernel bus ID: 0b:00.0 Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.10 driver: amdgpu,ati unloaded: modesetting,radeon resolution: 1: 1920x1080~60Hz 2: 1920x1080~60Hz 3: 1920x1080~60Hz OpenGL: renderer: AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT (NAVI10 DRM 3.39.0 5.9.11-3-MANJARO LLVM 11.0.0) v: 4.6 Mesa 20.2.3 direct render: Yes Audio: Device-1: AMD Navi 10 HDMI Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 0b:00.1 Device-2: AMD Starship/Matisse HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 0d:00.4 Device-3: Microdia USB 2.0 Camera type: USB driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo bus ID: 7-2:3 Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.9.11-3-MANJARO Network: Device-1: Intel I211 Gigabit Network vendor: ASUSTeK driver: igb v: kernel port: f000 bus ID: 05:00.0 IF: enp5s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: 24:4b:fe:5b:08:2a Drives: Local Storage: total: 4.62 TiB used: 1.82 TiB (39.4%) ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Western Digital model: WDS100T2B0C-00PXH0 size: 931.51 GiB ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST2000LM015-2E8174 size: 1.82 TiB ID-3: /dev/sdb vendor: Seagate model: ST380815AS size: 74.51 GiB ID-4: /dev/sdc vendor: Toshiba model: MQ01ABD100 size: 931.51 GiB ID-5: /dev/sdd vendor: Seagate model: ST1000LM035-1RK172 size: 931.51 GiB Partition: ID-1: / size: 767.00 GiB used: 316.91 GiB (41.3%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/dm-0 ID-2: /home size: 767.00 GiB used: 316.91 GiB (41.3%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/dm-0 Swap: ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 64.00 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) dev: /dev/dm-1 Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 52.6 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 43.0 C Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: amdgpu fan: 0 Info: Processes: 508 Uptime: 17m Memory: 31.33 GiB used: 8.35 GiB (26.7%) Init: systemd Compilers: gcc: 10.2.0 clang: 11.0.0 Packages: 1825 Shell: Bash v: 5.0.18 inxi: 3.1.08

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Re: VLC Stutters on Manjaro?

Postby acffilterece » 15 Dec 2020 18:46

Try using

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--input-fast-seek
to turn on fast seeking, which will cost seeking precision.
Is your problem exclusive to VLC?

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Re: VLC Stutters on Manjaro?

Postby Rémi Denis-Courmont » 15 Dec 2020 20:58

This can be caused by an unstable audio clock or unstable real-time clock (well, anything that makes both clock not correlate well).
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