If you try to seek around in the file by clicking the playback bar, it doesn't work properly.
It seeks to a weird point which is always further to the left than where you clicked.
After experiementation, I found my problem isn't related to the system load. It seems to be a problem with the h264 decoder. Here is a file which demonstrates the problems I am seeing: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=2AAF0PH4 Here's what I see with vlc-1.1.5: Numerous freezes for 1-4 seconds Weird arti...
Okay, I've gotten the glitching to happen a few times. I forced VLC to hiccup on a slow system by copying files in the background. The glitching seems to corrupt the chroma information for a key frame and it just looks like random garbage. It looks like subsequent differential frames contain only lu...
I'm seeing the artifacts where some blocks are corrupted for a few frames. The problem seems to occur more often when the system is slow, such as decompressing 720p video on an Atom-based laptop. From what I know of video compression, video frames are typically encoded as two types of frames: 1. key...