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Can you try to reset the ffmpeg thread to 0 and increase the file-caching value? from 300 ms to something like 500/600 ms

HA! That also works! Threads to 0 and caching increased to 2000 (even 600 did the job) plays smoothly. Thank you!

Thank you! I very much appretiate it!

This is not normal.

Well, it certainly is not, since the previous 1.1.11 worked just fine without any lag. Then suddenly 2.0.0 fresh install, deleted preferences and caches, reinstalled codecs - lags like crazy.

Limiting to 4?

Yes, I set it to 4 as you suggested and now everything plays smoothly.

Thank you again!

Use the search box in preferences to search threads, so you find the FFmpeg module.

Thank you! That seems to have done the trick!

changed video output to OPENGL.

Unfortunately this doesn't help me.

Decrease your threads number to 4 in preferences.

Sorry, but where exactly do I find these settings?

Under advanced > CPU Features, there's only a blank pane. No settings to be tweaked.

Can you share the logs: tools->messages set verbosity to 2 then start playback.

Hi,

this is what I'm getting:

http://www.duber.cz/dump/playbackLog.txt

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