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8 years since my original post and this is still a problem. VLC has moved on to 3.0.17 and I've moved on a couple of MAC OS's to Big Sur - but still I have to download DVDs from my NAS to my hard drive because even with the MAC hard-wired on Ethernet playback still pauses every minute or so while VL...

Is there a knack to making "Continue Playback" work? I've tried "Ask" and "Always" and neither works. If I open a mounted disc then it never works and always starts at the very beginning of the disc, no matter what the setting. If I open a file and set the option to &qu...

I've got the same problem with vlc 3.0.12 on a Mac:
https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=157202

No matter what the Continue Playback setting is the player always starts files, discs and disc images from the very beginning.

Problem for me too on 3.0.7.1 (Mac) and previous version. Problem with .iso files and also discs. Some files/discs start off OK then the lag starts to become progressively more apparent. The most annoying thing is that it's not fixable with the audio delay buttons. No matter which way the audio is a...

I tried but the message log is too big. Pastebin doesn't work. Mac OS 10.11.6 VLC Version 3.0.6 Vetinari (Intel 64bit) Disc is an iso image stored on Mac HD and mounted. I couldn't find or anywhere in the messages. No option to set verbosity in messages. I've pasted in all the errors below with a bi...

Same problem here, except that mine doesn't reset automatically. Also, oddly, I can't use the F and G keys to fix it. Whichever way I go with F/G ( audio advance, delay) it just gets more out of synch, with the video always lagging the audio. The only way I can get the audio to re-synch is to open t...

Still a problem for me. Over three years and counting since the first post. I'm now on El Cap. and VLC still stutters. It doesn't buffer. Other players work fine. Little Snitch shows the huge slug of data they take as they start up, but not VLC.

Interestingly I've tried giving VLC highest priority and either closing or demoting other processes in an attempt to improve its performance. It makes no difference. Even more interestingly is the speed of response from VLC staff on this thread when someone posts how great their product is but the c...

Hi dleedev. You've summed up the symptoms perfectly. I don't think that VLC does the downloading directly. When VLC is playing it hovers at the top of the CPU usage list. When VLC stops playing it drops way down the list and a kernel task hits the top when downloading starts in earnest. I guess (I'm...

BTW - instead of my speculating from a very weak technical position about what VLC is doing - here's what the log says when there's a freeze in VLC playback. The following is a cut and paste from the log immediately after three short freezes which all occurred within the space of a couple of minutes...

It should buffer so it doesn't run out of data, shouldn't it? The behaviour is that while it's playing the download rates are tiny - in the range of few bytes per second to (rarely) a kBPS. After a while playback freezes and then it downloads a chunk of data at rates between 3 and 8MBPS - available ...

It's a lot better, but it still freezes when it runs out of data. Same symptoms - while playing it loads bugger all data at a few BPS then, when it's frozen, it grabs a load at 3-6MBPS. The freezes are a lot further apart with his pre-release but it still needs work.

As of 25 Sep 2014 with VLC 2.1.5 on Mac OS-X 10.9.4 this is not fixed. I have the same behaviour as the OP when watching video over network from an SMB share; viz 10 Playback works fine - but no data downloaded while playback in progress. 20 Playback freezes for a while (few secs to a minute or so) ...

I have a problem with VLC periodically freezing. I turned off all apps and anything else that might access the net. I’ve got DVDs ripped to a NAS drive as either .vob or DVDMEDA files. The DVDMEDIA files play perfectly with Mac’s DVD player and they both play perfectly with VLC when they are on the ...