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I am trying to play a (1.07 GB) 720p x264 video file in MKV with VLC for the Mac. The audio loads OK, but the video will not advance. I keep getting error messages like the following:

main warning: late picture skipped (1264168)
main warning: late picture skipped (1305888)
main warning: late picture skipped (1305174)
main warning: late picture skipped (1303473)
main warning: late picture skipped (1321817)
main warning: late picture skipped (1300057)
main warning: late picture skipped (1319394)
main warning: late picture skipped (1358776)
ffmpeg error: more than 5 seconds of late video -> dropping frame (computer too slow ?)

I have a 1.8 Ghz PPC G5 with 1 GB DDR sdram. I am able to play H264 movies in Quicktime with no problem whatsoever.

I know that VLC's H264 codec is slower than QT's and requires a faster computer... but is my system really not fast enough, or is something else wrong?

Also, if my system is not fast enough to play this in VLC/mplayer, is there a way to convert t he video to play in Quicktime?

Thanks for any help.

It's not fast enough. the PPC optimizations for H264 are still very lousy compared to the Intel ones.

yeah, but I'm running a 2.33Ghz Intel Core2 Duo and I have the same problem as well (on a similar video as well). It's an HD(720p) video, encoded in H.264 with AC3(5.1) audio. I get it working for the first 5 seconds and then it spazes.

yeah, but I'm running a 2.33Ghz Intel Core2 Duo and I have the same problem as well (on a similar video as well). It's an HD(720p) video, encoded in H.264 with AC3(5.1) audio. I get it working for the first 5 seconds and then it spazes.

Then to me the file looks broken. But i can't see from here

hehe, nope, it actually runs all right on my friend's windows machine on regular MPC with the CCCP (dun dun duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuun). But actually all I had to do was upgrade to the 8.6 nightly builds and it seems to be running fine now. Thanks for the help tho! (Awesome job, it seems to be clearing up a lot of random other problems that I've been having with video too. Good Work!!!)