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This could be Windows-specific, since I only use VLC on Windows. If I'm playing an .mp4 file at a slowed down speed, using hotkeys to jump hangs for around five seconds before it starts playing again. This doesn't happen on all file formats. It's as though the speed factor causes it to miscalculate ...

This has been a problem for me for years. I'm running VLC on Windows, so I can't be sure it isn't Windows-specific, but it's been a problem on every Windows machine I've run it on, from WinXP to Win10, and it doesn't smell like it has anything to do with the OS. For MPEG2 videos, the hotkeys used fo...

This isn't working for me. Regardless of what I set "Fast seek" to, I get seemingly random jumping on lots of files, mostly DVD rips (.mpg files). In my experience, this hasn't always been the case. I don't recall having problems until about a year ago.

The fullscreen controller and cursor appear whenever the mouse moves. All it takes is bumping the table the mouse sits on, and the controller and cursor appear. This is REALLY irritating. It is especially bad since when the fullscreen controller is visible, the video rendering suddenly gets really s...

I'm trying to compress a Blu-ray rip, using VLC 3.0.6 on Win7. The .m2ts file plays fine in VLC, but it's data rate is too high for my old laptop, which I sometimes want to use for viewing. I set it to convert to H.264 at about 6Mb/s, keeping the original frame rate and FHD resolution. For audio, I ...

Where is the media library database saved, in Windows? I found a file called ml.xspf in my AppData\Roaming\vlc folder, but it doesn't appear to contain any options that are associated with video files. For instance, just to see if it would get saved, I used the extended settings to adjust the gamma ...