The VideoLAN Forums

This has been happening for years now. Several updates have occurred, but it's never fixed. It happened in XP and still happens in Windows 10, on two separate machines. I pause, and a few seconds after unpausing the video and audio stutters for a second or two, like the caching is badly, badly broke...

This has happened for a couple years now in Windows 10, with any kind of video file off of a hybrid disk (HD with small SSD cache). Video stuttering doesn't occur with other apps. Only VLC. I keep thinking it must going to be fixed any month now, but the years pass...

G'day. I'm having trouble finding with web searches how I can avoid stretching videos outside of their original ratio, yet still expand videos so either their width or height is scaled to the limit of the screen. I don't mind black bars on the top or bottom, but not both at once, if you know what I ...

You seem to be using the 64bit build of VLC (or the universal binary in 64bit mode) on Mac OS X 10.6.8, which shows the described behavior. This will be fixed in VLC 2.0.1, which will be out shortly. For the meantime, you can use the 32bit build targetting Mac OS X 10.5 available on videolan.org, w...

Are you on Lion? If so try disabling Lion's native Fullscreen mode in the preferences and restart VLC.

No, OS X 10.6.8 here. Lion takes OS X down a path I find less usable, so sadly I'm avoiding newer versions of OS X.

I have the same problems new with VLC 2 on the Mac and Windows. I tried deleting VLC's prefs in both OSes but that didn't solve these two issues. Previous versions of VLC did not exhibit this behaviour in either OS.

FYI - just tried deleting prefs and setting playback to start fullscreen. This is still ignored. Fullscreen is also still not exited once playback finishes. So it's not a bad prefs issue, though VLC obviously isn't respecting some of it's own preferences :-( I've also tried this on a couple differen...

VLC 2 seems to have some very strange and rather nonsensical new defaults - unlike previous versions, it begins playback of video at the native size instead of fullscreen (which I then have to manually change to), then after playback has ended it stays at fullscreen - which escape will not back out ...

Huh. Not happening here any more with media keys disabled in VLC Version 1.1.11 The Luggage (Intel 64bit) and OS X 10.6.8.

Cheers Garry for the download links! tiliv - good to know it's not just my machine, nor OS. I wonder what the common element is.

I wonder if our problems are related - https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=91043

*bump* Still happening, still would like the previous version of VLC please...

G'day. Still happening and I wondered if someone could tell me where I can download the previous release which didn't produce this error?

TIA

G'day again. I tried a fresh set of prefs - I still get "VLC[17407] Media key event tap was disabled by timeout" and the first mouseclick not recognised issue, with media key control on or off in the new VLC prefs. In case it's any help here is my System Profile in both XML and RTF formats...

I've always kept media key control in VLC disabled (and I just double checked - that setting remains unchecked in VLC's prefs), as they would control iTunes in the background as well as VLC. Or at least they did last time I investigated the feature. As for haxies and themes - nope. Only kernel exten...

"VLC[812] Media key event tap was disabled by timeout" <-I keep seeing that in Console every time I mouseclick and it fails to register the first time, which only happens when the new v1.1.10 of VLC is running. To be specific: 1) While VLC 1.1.10 is running, I click somewhere I haven't for...

G'day. On a series of three Mid-2007 24" 2.8GHz iMacs VLC has never been able to play video without periodic huge stutters unrelated to CPU usage (I'm keeping an eye on CPU usage history. However QT Player works fine. The reason I don't use QT Player is because it has always suffered from an an...

not sure what you mean by instant playback. if you start playing the video, why wouldn't you want it to start instantly? Because unfortunately none of the three 24" iMacs I've had can manage that. I'd like the video just to open as I can in QT Player, but not start playing. So I can wait a few...

Oh I get that it's not a VLC issue - that was just bitching on my part. Like I say what I really need is to be able to turn off instant playback.

Because Firefox uses a fair bit of CPU depending on the number of tabs and flash (ugg) content.

A problem with my video card? How do you figure that? I play games like WoW and Quake 3 ok. It's just that video takes a while to show in apps that try to play it back instantly.

Always happens on my mid-2007 24" 2.8GHz iMac with 4GB RAM and plenty of free HD space. Doesn't matter if I close Firefox and make sure .Mac syncing and no TM backup is occurring (boy are they a CPU drain and bad software). It is at least a few seconds before video appears all blocky and fuzzy ...

Already am. Thanks for the update - I'll wait for 1.0.1.

Has this been fixed in v1.0.0?

TIA,
Jamie Kahn Genet

G'day - 1.0.0-rc3 responds to the back, play/pause and forward buttons on my keyboard regardless of whether VLC is in focus :-( This causes huge problems if I leave a video halfway through and then use iTunes which I expect to be the only app that will ever respond to the KB media keys without being...