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Any update on this?

Hello, It's not my PC. Totem Movie player has no problems with the same file. I just needed to download and install the proper codec to play the file with Totem. VLC still freezes though. After looking around this forum and online I'm pretty sure that this is a VLC issue. Even Windows and Mac users ...

Hello again,

Actually, I meant a "Pentium 4", not a Pentium D.

Cheers.

Hello, I ran VLC from the terminal and received the following messages when the video froze momentarily: QPainter::begin: Paint device returned engine == 0, type: 1 QPainter::begin: Paint device returned engine == 0, type: 1 [00000420] avcodec decoder error: more than 5 seconds of late video -> drop...

We don't have a crystal ball. Gives us some logs so that we can try to find the problem I'm not at my home PC right now. When I get home I will create a log. Now, how do I do this? Do I simply run VLC from the terminal window? Please give me a step-by-step of how to get the information that you nee...

Hello, The previous version of VLC media player worked just fine on my system, but the video on the latest version freezes intermittently while the audio continues just fine. After a few seconds the video image will unfreeze and pick up with the audio (there is no video/audio lag). I'm sure it's not...