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so why is the default -1 and thats not small?

it doesnt even appear to do anything if i decrease from -1 to -2 , 3 ,4 etc but it goes smaller if i increase the number beyond 0
so 1 ,2,3

its still a bit of guess work isnt it. because how wide is -1 ? what should i change it to so it fits the width of my monitor? wouldnt it just be easier if you could set a default resolution size.

Well I can only speculate what it should do because it doesn't work. but i beleive when your in one instance mode if you try to run another viceo (double click it) then it goes into the que. obviously choosing one instance mode then choosing enque when in one instance mode doesn't work for myself an...

sorted. fix the one instance enque thing too

you mean its a known bug? because it happens on two of three computers in my house. havent tried the third yet.

So i had one instance mode only checked. and then i checked "enque items when in one instance mode" but after saving and restarting video lan going back into preferences its unchecked again. and sure enough if i start another video it does not enque but plays it. also like to add that it j...

Whenever I open a video by default the viewing screen is small.. This isn't really a problem because I can just use my mouse to expand it. But when I put videos in a playlist I notice that the next video in the playlist will open up in a shrunk window. Then I have to get up and expand it again with ...

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When the next video in the playlist starts, the video screen changes from the size of the first one i had open. so in other words when i run a video and drag the viewing area to fill my monitor except for a bit at the bottom to use instant messengers, the next video comes on autmatically but the scr...

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Extremely laggy, same thing with windows media player, but i had hoped vlc would be quicker to fix.
what can i do to resolve this? i havent stopped googling all day but now ive given up so maybe someone better informed than me can help. thanks

I suppose there could be a 3 but it seems unlikely considering the way you describe the issue and that is that you are overclocking the CPU or video card. If you dont know what the issue is just refrain from replying with comments that imply I am stupid and i dont know what im doing, who do you thi...

Ok . so I turned of increase cpu priority in the options and selected direct X video output. Cpu usage fluctuates from 10 -22% for video lan and the video is still laggy. I understand perfectly the difference between the drivers. I have the up to date graphics card drivers NVIDIA 6800 gt PCI express...

I know its not the same as my graphics card drivers. im talking about the chipset drivers (for my motherboard) in this case the Nforce 4 chipset? isnt that what you mean? anyway, thats current and up to date. according to http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?SLanguage=en-us I even updated ...

No im not. i am using the nforce 4 drivers for my asus an8 sli-se currently 6.86 .

k it was on default for video output modules. and the cpu usage was comfortably at 15-25% i changed the codec to direct X video output but its the same difference. which one should i choose?

Yup video card drivers very new, only updated a few weeks ago. Ill check the cpu usage. but i cant see that being an issue on an amd 3200 64 bit processor.

BTW like i said it works on bsplayer and also media player classic, so surely it must be a video lan problem?

Whether from the disk or a folder. they are very laggy. updated to latest version today, cleared cache and preferences, why is this happening? bs player runs fine with the same video. although i hate bs player, unable to make the display brighter.

Big improvement.. definately watchable now. And the picture looks just as good as before? presumably ive just lowered the quality in favour of performance? but i dont notice it anyway so its all good

Where are the loop filter options? because its not under "FILTERS"

I turned an option on to increase cpu priority and that improved it, more than twice as good as it was before, but its still not very watchable.

nope same videos i downloaded them myself.
And he didnt say computers are a marginal factor in the performance of videos, he said MY computer was marginal implying it was sub standard for playing these videos, when that is not the case

i have an amd3200 64 bit processor and a nvidia 6800 gt pci. i highly doubt my pc is "maginal" besides, like I said my brothers computer has the exact same specs and it plays them almost flawlessly, actually my computer has 4 gig of ram and his has only 1. and my mother board is the SLI ve...

also video lan doesnt use the x264 codec. theres no option anywhere to choose what codec to run the video with. im convinced it doesnt use them.

theres nothing wrong with my computer. and my brothers is identical to A T and it runs them smoothly and fine.