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output module to directx works better. But enabling or disabling, Use video buffers in system memory, has no effect. with Directx movie plays well. But i have to put video width & height to -1. If i use width 300 & height 200, the color of the video changes & movie plays in slight slow m...

You can tell VLC not to use Video memory or you can change output modules. But neither of these are good resolves.

How to do that & what to ?
I changed output module from default to directx output. is that ok.
But how to tell, not to use video memory.

this means MPC is better than vlc??
But how mpc outperforms vlc.
I don't understand.

But media player classic is able to play well.
This means vlc is memory hog.
I don't understand. Also any other player with less memmory usage.

Hi,
If i play vob files in vlc, it comes by frame by frame . also some avi's.
But it is fine in MPC.
I have p3 550 Mhz, with 4 Mb agp card.
What are the MAXIMUM performance increase for vlc.
i allready did for xp.

Hey guys whats happening????

Thanks guys.
Really helpful
350 & 250 suites me well.
Thanks for quick help, which solved long nuisance.

hi,
Anyone know how to disable auto zoom.
I want videos to be open without changing window size.
Zoom 1.000 preset doesn't help me.
i have videoswhich have diff screen size.
So is their anyway to open videos without automatically zooming, or changing the window size.

yes, reducing color to 16 bit solved the problem.
Thanks for all who helped.

Deleted preference file & directry, problem still continues.

Also is there any way to have the fullscreen view with the SEEK bar & auto hide as in MPC & WMP

Windows XP . I can't say its frame by frame, but its more like SLIDESHOW & video color changes. if i uncheck video overlay. My pc configuration P3 550Mhz, 192 MB RAM, sis 6326 4MB AGP card. WINXP I have no problem when i freshly installed XP, VLC was playing good. But it all started suddenly, wh...

If i turn off video overla, video turns to blue & moves frame bi frame.

If i minimise vlc, i get video on explorer window, not whole video but transparent video, in particular on ICON'S TEXT.
Anyone know how to rectify the problem.
I tried & tired on vlc 0.8.5 & 0.8.6, reset preference, but no result.