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Ok thanks. I increased the value in this line:

#define AVCODEC_MAX_VIDEO_FRAME_SIZE (3*1024*1024)

which appears in these two files:

modules\codec\ffmpeg\encoder.c
modules\stream_out\switcher.c

and now my PNG snapshots work fine. I don't know if these changes broke anything else.

I see the same behavior on my Win2k system, but it didn't surprise me. I assume VLC simply needs a moment to begin streaming each file. So, I use HDTVtoMPEG2 to combine the TS segments into one huge TS file. It's easy, and takes just a few minutes.

I'm playing 1920x1080 MPEG2 movies in VLC 0.8.5 on Win2k SP4. When I press Ctrl-Alt-s to save a snapshot, VLC truncates the PNG file to 3071 kilobytes, plus or minus approximately one kilobyte. That corrupts the PNG, unless the particular movie frame has low detail, in which case PNG naturally compr...

I have the AoD disk (cool movie!). That 19-minute extra feature is mastered weird. The DVD track is 16:9 anamorphic, but it contains 4:3 content, so the studio simply blacked out the side bars. The clip also contains some widescreen content, but the studio shrunk it to fit into the middle 4:3 area, ...

Maybe you have a weird web browser or firewall problem. I'm using Firefox. I go to this page: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-windows.html and click either of these links for vlc-0.8.2-win32.exe: Twente University (Netherlands) [http] Young Insurgents (Sweden) [ftp] and the download begins almo...

Yes, look at the news for VLC 0.8.0:
http://videolan.org/news.html

You disabled audio and video, and it's still chewing up 50% CPU? And your drive's DMA is really working? Ok, I'm stumped too! Maybe there's a clue in another one of your debug messages, but I don't know what most of them mean. I used the Ravisent player on my old Win95 box. I recall it was more effi...

Try shrinking your VLC movie window to postage stamp size. Does that significantly improve CPU utilization? If yes, then your graphics hardware acceleration isn't being used. Try Audio -> Audio Track -> Disable. Try Video -> Video Track -> Disable. What's their affect on CPU utilization? The develop...

I'm playing DVDs with VLC 0.8.2 on Win2k. When the movie reaches the layer change (for example "U-571" at 01:03:19), the move continues playing fine, but the time counter starts over at 00:00:00. Then when I press Alt-Right or Alt-Left to skip forward or backward a few seconds, the movies ...

Oops! It's too easy to accidentally post a message to this forum as "guest", and then I can't edit my post. My "wobble" technique is not 100% reliable. Another way to determine if video overlays are working is to take a simple Windows screen snapshot (press Print Screen) and past...

I'm running VLC 0.8.2 on Win2k. How do I read the list of command line options? When I type "vlc --longhelp --advanced", it opens another console window and scrolls the text by too fast to read, and there's no scroll bar. I tried piping the output to a file, but the text isn't going to std...

I don't know your answer but I have a related question.

Why does my CPU usage always read zero percent, even with kernel view enabled? This is a dual Athlon Win2k system with a GeForce 6800 card running VLC 0.8.2. When I use other DVD players such as WinDVD, I see somewhere around 20 or 30 percent.

It works great in Win2k too. I simply drag the VLC window to whichever display I want, and click full-screen. My second display is rotated 90 degrees, and VLC still behaves correctly, although it looks silly. I have nVidia GeForce 6800 card with two 1600x1200 LCD displays.

I added --fullscreen to the command line in my Windows shortcut that launches VLC.

Your English if perfectly clear.

Ouch! That's a BSOD, blue screen of death. That's Windows crashing, probably not VLC fault. I would suspect a graphics driver problem or hardware problem. Right click My Computer -> Properties -> Advanced -> Startup and Recovery -> uncheck automatically reboot. That will give you time to read the BS...

This doesn't answer your specific question, but it may be a better solution for you. I'm running Win2k with a GeForce 6800 card. I use my nVidia control panel to adjust the Overlay brightness and contrast. One adjustment, and all my movie players (that use video overlay) now have correct brightness ...

Maybe this will help. Ever since I installed my new GeForce 6800 and nVidia driver in Win2k, all my DVD players (including VLC 0.8.2) have wrong brightness/contrast. However, if I merely open my nVidia GeForce 6800 Properties window, the DVD player window suddenly snaps to the correct brightness! It...

Oops, I forgot to login.

That was me talking about Windows dual monitor.

Hello, I'm using 0.8.2 to play DVDs on my Win2k system. When the disk starts up, it usually begins at the title menu instead of playing the studio logo, previews, copyright warning, etc. That's actually a wonderful feature, but why does it happen? Can I change a setting somewhere to make the disk st...

Two months old, but I'll give it a shot...

Are you playing a commercial DVD?
What hardware and OS are you using?
Have you found a solution?

I think I'm having the same problem:
viewtopic.php?p=32293

Hi guest,

Is you hardware and operating system similar to mine, or different?

This user seems to have the same problem:
viewtopic.php?t=9278

Anyone - where can I learn what those various debug messages mean?

Thanks.

Hello, I just installed VLC 0.8.2 on my Win2k dual Athlon system to play DVDs. It works splendidly on many movies, but some movies have occasional hiccups where the audio and video hesitate for a second or so. The problem is repeatable, always happening at the same spots in the movie. All these movi...