VLC Stopping playbar (yellow loading? bar) pic incl.

[ROTN]

I seem to have this really annoying problem, where the video stops playing (with a stuttering gated sound) and resumes only after this yellow bar goes across the seek bar.



It makes it really hard to watch any video on the software.

I've used .avi and .mkv files and they stop playback a lot. At this stage, .mp4 is working mostly fine.

Any insight as to why this might happen, or how to fix it?

And it seems that the times are highlight/selected.

[TmvJosue]

It's weird. VLC and Windows' version?

[TypX]

This is the "buffering bar" this means that vlc decoded and played the video faster than it could actually read it, so it will buffer some time then resume playback. This could happen with remote files on a slow network or big files on a slow support like USB1.1-.
Of course you can try to increase the caching options (file-caching or network-caching) in the preferences or put this files on your computer hard drive.
If it is the case you should open Tools->Messages set verbosity to 2 then start playback and copy the logs here or the pastebin like of your choice.

[ROTN]

N.B
This video is on a local HDD.

This is the "buffering bar" this means that vlc decoded and played the video faster than it could actually read it, so it will buffer some time then resume playback. This could happen with remote files on a slow network or big files on a slow support like USB1.1-.
Of course you can try to increase the caching options (file-caching or network-caching) in the preferences or put this files on your computer hard drive.
If it is the case you should open Tools->Messages set verbosity to 2 then start playback and copy the logs here or the pastebin like of your choice.

Here are the logs

direct3d debug: Created 650x131 texture for OSD
direct3d debug: Created 1040x63 texture for OSD
direct3d debug: Created 748x131 texture for OSD
direct3d debug: Created 606x62 texture for OSD
direct3d debug: Created 730x130 texture for OSD
direct3d debug: Created 620x131 texture for OSD
direct3d debug: Created 885x63 texture for OSD
main debug: auto hiding mouse cursor
main debug: auto hiding mouse cursor
main debug: VoutDisplayEvent 'mouse button' 0 t=8
main debug: VoutDisplayEvent 'mouse button' 0 t=9
main debug: auto hiding mouse cursor
main error: ES_OUT_SET_(GROUP_)PCR is called too late (pts_delay increased to 5095 ms)
main error: ES_OUT_RESET_PCR called
main warning: early picture skipped
main debug: Buffering 0%
main debug: Buffering 6%
main debug: Buffering 16%
main debug: Buffering 22%
main debug: Buffering 31%
main debug: Buffering 38%
main debug: Buffering 46%
main debug: End of audio preroll
main debug: End of video preroll
main debug: Received first picture
main debug: Buffering 53%
main debug: Buffering 59%
main debug: Buffering 65%
main debug: Buffering 71%
main debug: Buffering 78%
main debug: Buffering 85%
main debug: Buffering 93%
main debug: Stream buffering done (5187 ms in 285 ms)
main debug: Decoder buffering done in 0 ms
main warning: PTS is out of range (-9981), dropping buffer
main warning: picture is too late to be displayed (missing 57 ms)
main debug: picture might be displayed late (missing 17 ms)
main debug: auto hiding mouse cursor
direct3d debug: Created 320x119 texture for OSD
main debug: auto hiding mouse cursor
main debug: auto hiding mouse cursor


How do I change cache size on the latest VLC, the preferences window has changed so much.

[ROTN]

More debug, .avi file

main warning: computed PTS is out of range (229419), clearing out
main warning: PTS is out of range (228753), dropping buffer
main error: ES_OUT_SET_(GROUP_)PCR is called too late (pts_delay increased to 300 ms)
main error: ES_OUT_RESET_PCR called
main warning: early picture skipped
main debug: Buffering 0%
main debug: End of audio preroll
main debug: Buffering 8%
main debug: Buffering 16%
main debug: Buffering 25%
main debug: Buffering 33%
main debug: Buffering 41%
main debug: Buffering 50%
main debug: Buffering 58%
main debug: Buffering 66%
main debug: Buffering 75%
main debug: Buffering 83%
main debug: Buffering 91%
main debug: Buffering 100%
main debug: Stream buffering done (325 ms in 0 ms)
main debug: End of video preroll
main debug: Received first picture
main debug: Decoder buffering done in 8 ms
main warning: PTS is out of range (33044), dropping buffer
main warning: PTS is out of range (9062), dropping buffer
main warning: PTS is out of range (-14928), dropping buffer
main warning: PTS is out of range (-38919), dropping buffer
main debug: picture might be displayed late (missing 15 ms)
main debug: auto hiding mouse cursor
main warning: computed PTS is out of range (8183581), clearing out
main warning: PTS is out of range (8183581), dropping buffer
main error: ES_OUT_SET_(GROUP_)PCR is called too late (pts_delay increased to 462 ms)
main error: ES_OUT_RESET_PCR called
main warning: early picture skipped
main debug: Buffering 0%
main debug: Buffering 5%
main debug: End of audio preroll
main debug: Buffering 10%
main debug: Buffering 16%
main debug: Buffering 21%
main debug: Buffering 27%
main debug: Buffering 32%
main debug: Buffering 37%
main debug: Buffering 43%
main debug: Buffering 48%
main debug: Buffering 54%
main debug: Buffering 59%
main debug: Buffering 64%
main debug: Buffering 70%
main debug: Buffering 75%
main debug: Buffering 81%
main debug: Buffering 86%
main debug: Buffering 91%
main debug: Buffering 97%
main debug: Stream buffering done (475 ms in 0 ms)
main debug: End of video preroll
main debug: Received first picture
main debug: Decoder buffering done in 7 ms
main warning: PTS is out of range (35014), dropping buffer
main warning: PTS is out of range (11030), dropping buffer
main warning: PTS is out of range (-12960), dropping buffer
main warning: PTS is out of range (-36949), dropping buffer
main debug: auto hiding mouse cursor
main warning: computed PTS is out of range (5609523), clearing out
main warning: PTS is out of range (5609523), dropping buffer
main error: ES_OUT_SET_(GROUP_)PCR is called too late (jitter of 5723 ms ignored)
main error: ES_OUT_RESET_PCR called
main warning: early picture skipped
main debug: Buffering 0%
main debug: Buffering 5%
main debug: End of audio preroll
main debug: Buffering 10%
main debug: Buffering 16%
main debug: Buffering 21%
main debug: Buffering 27%
main debug: Buffering 32%
main debug: Buffering 37%
main debug: Buffering 43%
main debug: Buffering 48%
main debug: Buffering 54%
main debug: Buffering 59%
main debug: Buffering 64%
main debug: Buffering 70%
main debug: Buffering 75%
main debug: Buffering 81%
main debug: Buffering 86%
main debug: Buffering 91%
main debug: Buffering 97%
main debug: Stream buffering done (475 ms in 0 ms)
main debug: End of video preroll
main debug: Received first picture
main debug: Decoder buffering done in 6 ms
main warning: PTS is out of range (16021), dropping buffer
main warning: PTS is out of range (-7961), dropping buffer
main warning: PTS is out of range (-31951), dropping buffer
main debug: auto hiding mouse cursor
main debug: VoutDisplayEvent 'mouse button' 0 t=8
main debug: VoutDisplayEvent 'mouse button' 0 t=9
direct3d debug: Created 83x83 texture for OSD
main debug: auto hiding mouse cursor
main debug: auto hiding mouse cursor
main debug: auto hiding mouse cursor
main debug: auto hiding mouse cursor