VLC 0.9.2 extremely choppy video compared to 0.8.6i

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VLC 0.9.2 extremely choppy video compared to 0.8.6i

Postby Adrian232 » 18 Sep 2008 08:34

Is it just me, or does anybody else experience extremely degraded video quality in the new 0.9.2 version? Just about every video I have tried to play does not play fluidly all the time, and kind of skips around a bit, sometimes even pausing for seconds on end while the audio still plays. When the video catches back up, it gives that "blend" pixelated appearance like some video does when you try to track ahead then remains choppy through the rest of the movie. Yet all of these movies work perfectly in 0.8.6i, without even that effect while tracking...

My computer is a Mac Mini 1.5Ghz PowerPC G4 with 1GB RAM running Mac OS X 10.4.11

Certain video encodings seem to have more of an effect on this degradation. Yet others of even bigger size appear to be having no problems...

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Re: VLC 0.9.2 extremely choppy video compared to 0.8.6i

Postby ffooky » 18 Sep 2008 14:36

I installed 0.9.2 on our 2.1GHz G5 iMac and playback is appreciably poorer. If I play a DVD from a VIDEO_TS folder it looks as though it is dropping frames left right and centre whereas it was fine in 0.8.6.

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Re: VLC 0.9.2 extremely choppy video compared to 0.8.6i

Postby Adrian232 » 18 Sep 2008 17:25

Hm. I wonder if this problem is limited to PowerPC Macs. Are the "new" codecs supposedly in VLC 0.9.2 optimized for x86 processors? Or is something else going on here?

I do know that I am noticing an increasing rate of CPU usage while a movie is playing. It seems the longer it has been playing the more it hogs down my CPU...

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Re: VLC 0.9.2 extremely choppy video compared to 0.8.6i

Postby hansi » 18 Sep 2008 17:43

Yeah, I got the same problem on an Intel based Mac(book). I want my old 0.8.6i back!

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Re: VLC 0.9.2 extremely choppy video compared to 0.8.6i

Postby JCB » 18 Sep 2008 18:25

I have got the same problem as well! VLC worked brilliantly - now it is really crappy! Dropping frames, the picture freezes while the sound continues. Does anyone know where i can "downgrade" (Did not get the archive version on the vlc site to work on OSX)

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Re: VLC 0.9.2 extremely choppy video compared to 0.8.6i

Postby guguss » 18 Sep 2008 19:51

yes same read here:

viewtopic.php?f=12&t=50194

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Re: VLC 0.9.2 extremely choppy video compared to 0.8.6i

Postby garri » 18 Sep 2008 20:43

Registered here only to report the same: 0.9.2 is terribly slow compared to 0.8.6i. Stuttering and all.

At first there was no picture at all, but that was solved by removing the cache. I went through the prefs (also the more hidden ones) to solve the slowdown as well (altering buffer/cache size and similar), but all in all unsuccessfully. Resetting prefs and removing cache again, same game - 0.9.2 plays every movie choppy and stuttering (even playing a DVD is highly problematic), but 0.8.6i has no problems with the same files. Oh yes, mplayer has no problems playing them smoothly as well. Or QuickTime (with the proper codecs installed) or the OS internal dvd player app. In short: 0.9.2 is unusable for me.

I have a PPC Mac, using Tiger with the latest updates/patches.

Edit: seeing now the problem of a few, to obtain the 0.8.6i release:
In
http://download.videolan.org/pub/videol ... 6i/macosx/
one finds
http://download.videolan.org/pub/videol ... owerpc.dmg
which does the trick for my Mac.

http://download.videolan.org/pub/videol ... -intel.dmg
should be fine for those Intels - but i cannot say for sure.

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Re: VLC 0.9.2 extremely choppy video compared to 0.8.6i

Postby Adrian232 » 18 Sep 2008 23:09

Yes. Those two links in the post above should work for downgrading VLC. But here is the Universal binary version you can grab:
http://download.videolan.org/pub/videol ... 0.8.6i.dmg

Keep in mind, though, that the playlist between versions are not compatible and you have to trash your prefs whenever switching between versions. (or deal with no visible playlist)

For now I'm just using the old version until they get a fix out. But this seems to be a serious problem, and needs to be addressed soon.

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Re: VLC 0.9.2 extremely choppy video compared to 0.8.6i

Postby madmax_2069 » 19 Sep 2008 05:59

yea i posted a topic about 0.9.2s slowness. in 0.8.6i everything plays great (except anything in a .mkv) on my G4.

it seems we have a regression going on here. instead of getting better things got allot worse. i will be staying with 0.8.6i until i see that it has improved.

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Re: VLC 0.9.2 extremely choppy video compared to 0.8.6i

Postby pdherbemont » 19 Sep 2008 22:25

This is interesting and noted. Unfortunately we would need some additional info, such as a movie sample to try to reproduce the problem.

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Re: VLC 0.9.2 extremely choppy video compared to 0.8.6i

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 20 Sep 2008 00:39

This should be fixed in 0.9.3.
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Re: VLC 0.9.2 extremely choppy video compared to 0.8.6i

Postby JPhilipson » 26 Sep 2008 20:52

I'm having this problem on my Macbook Pro., 3 gigs of Ram, intel processor, nice video card, etc. It's not the hardware, vlc before this version was way smoother. please fix!!!! :-)

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Re: VLC 0.9.2 extremely choppy video compared to 0.8.6i

Postby The DJ » 29 Sep 2008 15:49

I'm having this problem on my Macbook Pro., 3 gigs of Ram, intel processor, nice video card, etc. It's not the hardware, vlc before this version was way smoother. please fix!!!! :-)
^^^^ Fixed in 0.9.3 ^^^^^
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Re: VLC 0.9.2 extremely choppy video compared to 0.8.6i

Postby garri » 29 Sep 2008 22:20

yeah, sort of fixed in 0.9.3. Still slower than 0.8.6i. And overall, "new" vlc isn't worth the speed decrease. In case QT plus Perian doesn't do the trick, pure MPlayer (via MacPorts) will do in the future - more stable than vlc 0.8.6i anyway, as far as i have noticed.

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Re: VLC 0.9.2 extremely choppy video compared to 0.8.6i

Postby conner » 30 Sep 2008 20:18

Didn't notice any change in performance w/ 0.9.3... still just as choppy as 0.9.2

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Re: VLC 0.9.2 extremely choppy video compared to 0.8.6i

Postby gbenrus25 » 30 Sep 2008 20:26

yep; still very choppy

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Re: VLC 0.9.2 extremely choppy video compared to 0.8.6i

Postby Anuga » 08 Oct 2008 17:46

Yupz, still choppy's.

You can jump in the progress bar, but only between 0 - 10 minutes each time, otherwise, it's either jumps back to 0 or fails and crashes.
Seems like there's a problem with the matroska library in my case, but then again, since it seems to happen to everyone, on different file formats, it might be a problem with the video handling processing.

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Re: VLC 0.9.2 extremely choppy video compared to 0.8.6i

Postby nosecohn » 11 Oct 2008 03:20

Choppy for me too in 0.9.3 and 0.9.4. Playing from a folder on the desktop of my internal drive. I've downgraded to 0.8.6.

PowerBook G4, 1.5 GHz, 1 GB RAM.

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Re: VLC 0.9.2 extremely choppy video compared to 0.8.6i

Postby ezar » 12 Oct 2008 17:05

Choppy for me too in 0.9.3 and 0.9.4.
Any news?

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Re: VLC 0.9.2 extremely choppy video compared to 0.8.6i

Postby The DJ » 12 Oct 2008 20:21

Yes.
Preferences->All

Then choose in the left column: Input/Codecs -> Access modules -> MMap

Now deselect; "Use file memory mapping" and Save.
This will be fixed in 0.9.5 and later.
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Re: VLC 0.9.2 extremely choppy video compared to 0.8.6i

Postby pearofducks » 13 Oct 2008 23:14

This fix didn't change the occasional video stutter at all for me. Still having problems.

SD and HD content, core2duo.

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Re: VLC 0.9.2 extremely choppy video compared to 0.8.6i

Postby The DJ » 14 Oct 2008 15:56

This fix didn't change the occasional video stutter at all for me. Still having problems.

SD and HD content, core2duo.
"this"......

Please specify what you are talking about.
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Re: VLC 0.9.2 extremely choppy video compared to 0.8.6i

Postby macona » 14 Oct 2008 22:20

Even with the newest releases video plays with dropped frames, especially .mkv files. This is on a Core2Duo and the processor is hardly hit.

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HELP GUYS!. EXTRANGE VIDEO FORMAT...I THINK

Postby josemariacm » 14 Oct 2008 22:30

Hi everybody!.
First congratulations VLC Team for this incredible job!!

Now the question:
How can I download this video that appear in this Channel TV page??

http://www.buenafuente.lasexta.com/secc ... dos/231001

Thanks for your help! THX :D

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STRANGE VIDEO FORMAT... I THINK!

Postby josemariacm » 14 Oct 2008 22:33

Hi everybody!.
First congratulations VLC Team for this incredible job!!

Now the question:
How can I download this video that appear in this Channel TV page??

http://www.buenafuente.lasexta.com/secc ... dos/231001

Thanks for your help! THX :D


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