VLC frozen for first ten seconds of video?

[Rekrul]

About half the time when I open a video with VLC, the window resizes itself and the sound starts playing but the display is just black and the entire window is frozen. I can't even close it. When the image finally appears, the time display jumps to 10 seconds, then it works normally.

It's seems to be hit or miss the first time I open a video, but if I close VLC and open another video right away, it happens 100% of the time.

When I open the same videos with Media Player Classic, there's a delay before the video starts, however the video and audio start at the same time and they both start from the beginning. Also, the window isn't frozen like VLC.

[DJ]

It sounds like DirectX is having trouble initializing the display. Try updating your Video drivers and DirectX runtime.

[Rekrul]

It sounds like DirectX is having trouble initializing the display. Try updating your Video drivers and DirectX runtime.

I have DirectX 9c installed. Also, my video card drivers are the latest ones you can possibly get for Windows 98SE. In fact, the Nvidia site only lists 81.98, but I have 82.16, downloaded directly off the XFXForce site before they reverted back to one of the 77.xx versions. They did this because I complained that none of the 8x.xx versions would uninstall properly under 98 without using third-party software.

Of course many old games, and at least one emulator don't work properly with this particular driver version, but I keep it installed just for occasions such as this where I'm told to install the latest driver.