VLC 1.1.0 Hiccups

[MaJoR]

I have a curious and annoying little issue with the latest VLC media player. Two things.

When running a DVD, VLC acts as though the video track is turned off for a second. So one moment it is playing fine, the next the window shrinks down and the video disappears, as though no video was being played, and then it comes back. Like the video track is hiccuping or something. Using video filters or not appears to have no affect on the issue. It also appears to happen more frequently if I switch video tracks via menus or pause/skip within a video track. If I just turn on the DVD and play the first video there is little problem, only one or two hiccups, but the second or third video will have increasing hiccups (watching television series on DVD). Also the error happens when it full screen or not without any apparent change.

When I run a MPEG-4 AVI file from my harddrive, the video track is fine, but the sound hiccups from time to time. Just a split second where there is no sound. Just, annoying. Note that MP3s do not have any problems. No audio filters are on.

VLC 1.0.3, my previous VLC version, did not have these issues. But VLC 1.1.0 has alot of improvements over VLC 1.0.3 so I don't really want to rollback. Perhaps there is a way to alter the buffers to compensate for problems or something?


Computer Specs
Windows 7 64bit
Core 2 Duo E6750 2.66Ghz
Geforce 9800GTX+ 512MB
4GB DDR2 System memory

VLC Specs
Version 1.1.0 32bit Windows
Deinterlacing - Automatic Yadif 2x

[VLC_help]

What does Tools -> Messages (set Verbosity to 2) complain when you play DVD and video disappears?

For audio problem, try different video or audio output modules.
http://wiki.videolan.org/WindowsFAQ-1.1 ... _output.3F
http://wiki.videolan.org/WindowsFAQ-1.1 ... _anomalies

[MaJoR]

Uh, this is WAY too much information. Whenever it hiccups it adds dozens of lines to the messages. I'll try to grab what I can.

Well, at first I thought an error correlated with it. And then I cleared the log and waited, it hiccuped, and no error was shown. So uh, I have no idea what's going on. The error I thought it was is below.

main error: ES_OUT_SET_(GROUP_)PCR is called too late (pts_delay increased to 300 ms)
main error: ES_OUT_RESET_PCR called

I have two logs to show. The first is one where I kept logging while changing settings and stuff, and the hiccup occur multiple times while doing this. This log has the error I listed above. The second "short" log is one where I cleared the log and didn't touch a thing, and then it did a sudden double hiccup, then I saved the log. It does not have any errors listed. Sorry they are links, can't attach files to this post apparently. Note that I am playing a DVD for all of this. Interlaced digital video and audio.


http://dl.dropbox.com/u/519564/VLC%20Log.log

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/519564/VLC%20Log%20Short.log

[Krempel]

I get them too with this new version. I listen to radio streams (http://killradio.org:8000/killradio64.mp3) and I get frequent dropouts.
On a dropout the messages were:

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main warning: audio drift is too big (-120341), clearing out main warning: timing screwed, stopping resampling main warning: buffer is 532367325122 late, triggering upsampling main warning: mixer start isn't output start (-51816) main debug: audio output is starving (248871), playing silence main warning: output date isn't PTS date, requesting resampling (-49871)

Also often I get this during playback:

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main warning: buffer is 520417890306 late, triggering upsampling main warning: timing screwed, stopping resampling main warning: buffer is 520417916428 late, triggering upsampling main warning: timing screwed, stopping resampling main warning: buffer is 520417942550 late, triggering upsampling main warning: timing screwed, stopping resampling main warning: buffer is 520417968673 late, triggering upsampling main warning: timing screwed, stopping resampling main warning: buffer is 520417994795 late, triggering upsampling main warning: timing screwed, stopping resampling main warning: buffer is 520418020918 late, triggering upsampling main warning: timing screwed, stopping resampling main warning: buffer is 520418047040 late, triggering upsampling main warning: timing screwed, stopping resampling main warning: buffer is 520418073163 late, triggering upsampling main warning: timing screwed, stopping resampling main warning: buffer is 520418099285 late, triggering upsampling main warning: timing screwed, stopping resampling main warning: buffer is 520418125408 late, triggering upsampling main warning: timing screwed, stopping resampling main warning: buffer is 520418151530 late, triggering upsampling main warning: timing screwed, stopping resampling main warning: buffer is 520418177652 late, triggering upsampling main warning: timing screwed, stopping resampling main warning: buffer is 520418203775 late, triggering upsampling main warning: timing screwed, stopping resampling main warning: buffer is 520418229897 late, triggering upsampling main warning: timing screwed, stopping resampling main warning: buffer is 520418256020 late, triggering upsampling main warning: timing screwed, stopping resampling main warning: buffer is 520418282142 late, triggering upsampling main warning: timing screwed, stopping resampling main warning: buffer is 520418308265 late, triggering upsampling main warning: timing screwed, stopping resampling main warning: buffer is 520418334387 late, triggering upsampling main warning: timing screwed, stopping resampling main warning: buffer is 520418360510 late, triggering upsampling main warning: timing screwed, stopping resampling

I use Win7 64bit with Realtek ALC888 (driver 2.49).