Some FRAMES of some source files cause VLC to RESTART
I am hit by this same resizing bug and it's very annoying,
ricktu was actually very moderate compared to the damage. But I think my case can help finding the bug.
I saved ~1h10 from HD TV in a 2.3GB m2ts file and I am trying to make, out of it, about 20 smaller m2ts files that will be played, as tracks, by a couple playlists (e.g. one playlist for the whole show, one for the music parts only, one for the interview parts only, etc).
I use
SmartCutter 1.6.1 to cut track #1 (
New START Point,
New END Point,
Record), I rename it immediately, then back in SC, I click "
clear" and cut the next track, and so on. Then in VLC I create the playlist.
Now after creating the 7 first tracks, VLC plays them nicely, including almost seamless joins; excepted that when starting track #5, the join is not seamless at all: VLC suddenly displays its giant black screen with the VLC icon in the middle, for about 0.75s (this is actually very long when you suffer it), then starts track #5 in that giant resized screen, so I have to manually resize. During my creating the tracks, this happens systematically each time I start track #5, hence a dozen times an hour.
Whatever the way to reach a track (navigating forward or backwards the playlist in VLC, or dragging a track file from Windows Explorer onto VLC title bar), other tracks start immediately without resizing, but track #5 triggers the bug.
I opened the playlist in Notepad++, track #5 is no different there. I renamed the track files to make them simple and similar, recreated the playlist, no avail.
I recreated track #5 in SmartCutter, same START (frame 1 of the wanted final track) and END Points, no avail.
So I think that in the raw m2ts file I start from, there is something, in the frame on which I start track #5 I presume, that triggers this bug; this must cause VLC to restart instead of simply, as it does on the 6 other tracks, switch to the next track in the playlist.
For the resizing part,
Google "One file in VLC Playlist resizes the player" >
How to prevent VLC from automatically resizing its window according to viewed content resolution? gave me the solution: in "
VLC > Tools > Preferences > Show settings: All > Interface > Main interfaces > Qt", CLEAR (uncheck) the "
Resize interface to the native video size" checkbox.
Once this remedy applied (and VLC duly restarted), when track #5 starts, it doesn't resize VLC anymore; but it still shows its black screen with the VLC icon for ~0.75s, which disturbs the video experience and destroys its quality; this remains pretty annoying.
So apparently the problem is actually NOT with
resizing but with
RESTARTING VLC.
I tested re-cutting track #5:
- starting on frame 2 (of the wanted final track #5), fail.
- Starting on frame -5 of track #4 (I mean the 5th frame backwards starting from end track #4), OK.
- Starting on frame +5 of wanted track #5, the black screen and icon still shown, but just a blink, so I tried:
- Starting on frame +6 of wanted track #5, OK. And at that time the music hasn't started yet, so in this case I am solved. But the general problem remains.
Hope this detailed report helps debugging...
Versailles, Wed 21 Nov 2012 23:46:00 +0100