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I have a similar problem. Windows 7 64-bit Pro, 2.0.2 installed and working. The upgrade, reached either through the automatic check on start, or manually from the "Check for updates" on the Help menu, downloads a file (to some unknown location), then VLC disappears. A message appears sayi...

1) It's the FFmpeg one. x264 is the encoder only. 2) You can't on Windows XP. But for the record check here: http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=79953 3) By default VLC will use all of the capabilities of your CPU. 4) Get a better and faster CPU :) Your P4@2.4 GHz is a bit weak for 1...

This is an update of a request for advice I made in Oct 2009. I have noticed others are having similar difficulties. I am attempting to play back files on a local disk. 400-line video plays back OK, but 720-line is choppy (jumps over missing frames). Where should I look for a problem? O/S is Windows...

Turning off "Enable OSD" and "Show media title on video" made a big improvement. It doesn't look like 720-line resolution, but the choppiness is almost gone. Anyone know why this matters?

Tnx to 'patch'. I never would have found this.

Interesting. MPC-HC shows the video without jerkiness, but in slow motion. Also, the audio is out of sync with the video.

Bitrate seems to be about 3200 kb/s, from the statistics. How can I decide what CPU would be required? Or is there additional hardware which can handle the decoding?

As you might see from my OP, I did that already, and although it made a small difference, the jerkiness is still present.

I am attempting to play back files on a local disk. 400-line video plays back OK, but 720-line is choppy (jumps over missing frames). Where should I look for a problem? O/S is Windows XP Pro SP3, CPU is Pentium 4 @ 2.4 GHz, 3 GB RAM, video card Radeon X1650 Pro driving dual monitors. Playback is on ...

A web site has a link to their player, which plays audio-only content. How can I use VLC to record this content in a file on my computer? The content is voice, so the fidelity is not particularly important. I'd prefer mp3 if there is a choice. I am using Windows XP Pro, VLC media player 1.0.1 Golden...

I am trying to determine which case I have found: 1) The file is valid MPEG-2 and VLC crashes due to a bug in VLC or 2) The file is not valid MPEG-2 and VLC crashes because the bad file format was not checked for, or the checking was so expensive that it was deliberately omitted. or 3) The file is v...

I have changed the target for the shortcut from "C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC86\vlc.exe" to "C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC86\vlc.exe" --codec ffmpeg and the crash still occurs immediately after starting to play the file. I also tried starting VLC from a DOS window, with "C:...

can you try to use --codec ffmpeg or remove the libmpeg2.dll from the built-in modules ? Can you tell me how to do this in the Windows version, which has GUI? I want to emphasize that the entire 4-hour (26 GB) file played properly one time, using the default settings (and possibly caching 300 sec).

Windows XP Pro; VLC 0.8.6d; videl card NVidia GeForce 6200 TurboCache, BIOS 5.44.02.45, 256MB memory, ForceWare 93.71 A particular .mpg file causes VLC to crash when I attempt to play it. The crash occurs almost always, but occasionally the file plays. When it does play, everything works correctly. ...

Have you looked at the developers section? Have you read ANY or the documentation? For the complexity of VLC I would say it's quite well documented and commented for an open source project. I have to apologize on this one. I downloaded the sources, but didn't find any documentation included there. ...

Considering you are becoming an authority on this why don't give a hand at programming? :P Because VLC seems to be a typical open-source product, which means to me - The code is virtually uncommented. - There are no overview documents. - The package uses a complex and undocumented directory structu...

Most generally it's missing PAT/PMT tables. A player has no way to reconstruct this. First, if VLC can play the video (forward) at 1X, 2X, 4X and 8X, which it can in this case, it can surely read the file at higher speeds, if it does not have to display anything. That would allow implementation of ...

Starting with VLC 0.8.5 MPEG times have been corrected and are almost proper. But I'm using 0.8.5. And that doesn't explain why I'm limited to 8X normal speed. Try cross checking this problem file with another player to see if it is the file (as I suspect it is) The file does't play with either Wind...

I am trying to play a video file with extension .ty, using VLC 0.8.5 running under WinXP. I can play the file (size about 9.5 GB), but I can't control it very well. View/Stream and Media Info shows stream 0 codec=mpgv, and stream 1=mpga. These are the difficulties: 1) The time indicator at the botto...