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Also seeking in these movies causes this message, which never happened before. main: decoder is leaking pictures, resetting the heap main: picture 0x8e99340 refcount is -1 "Leaking pictures warnings with ffmpeg" is a known issue with the current ffmpeg used, see https://trac.videolan.org/...

Late input could point to a performance issue (system too slow?). You can try increasing the file cache for example to 5 seconds: --file-caching 5000. The PCR (Program Clock Reference value embedded in a stream used for timing mechanism) could be not ideal for the current bandwith. You can change to...

VLC to Windows Media Server only works for Win2000 not Win2003 yet (?), the server simply disconnects. DIV3 or any WMV1/2/3 for video should work and mp3 or wma for audio. The .nsc files are used for multicast streaming and generated on a Windows Media Server (and basically hold the announcement inf...

This is because VLC behaves different from WMP (Windows Media Player). VLC doesn't jump to the nearest so called keyframe (reference) but decodes what ever (raw) data it gets. So after a few seconds (you see some greyish discolored blocks most likely) the video "clears up" when it reaches ...

When I try to stream video from my capture device,VLAN restarts computer when it start streaming.In Open list in program is this line: dshow:// :dshow-vdev="WinFast TV2000 XP WDM Video Capture" :dshow-adev="C-Media Wave Device" :dshow-size="" :dshow-config :dshow-tuner...

This is a special IP adress for multicast networks. Make sure your ISP network supports multicast (that usually is not the case on public networks).

There is a reported issue of this in the TRAC database for windowed mode (so not fullscreen) under Windows: https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/426