VLC video halts for a few milliseconds every second or so...

[tbessie]

I don't know if you'd call this "choppy" or "hesitation" or what - I'm running VLC 2.1.0 on an i3 system, plenty of processor power, memory, and a good HTPC-focused ATI card running the latest x64 Catalyst drivers under WIndows 7 x64.

When watching a DVD ripped to disk (raw format, not ISO), if there's a scene with constant motion (like a bird's-eye view flying-through-the-air scene), the video flows for a half a second or so, then has a VERY minor stop (almost not noticible, but I notice it) for less than 1/10th of a second, then continues smoothly, then halts for that tiny bit of time, etc. There is no issue with the audio.

For playback of a standard DVD rip, what preferences might I modify to make this halting go away, and produce absolutely smooth video? I've tried enabling hardware acceleration but that doesn't help. There are a zillion caching and buffering settings, but I'm not sure which ones might help improve this particular situation.

These videos play perfectly and smoothly under MPC-HC x64.

Any ideas? And what would you call this specific kind of issue?

- Tim

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Can you share the logs?

[tbessie]

I will generate some and share them.

- Tim

[tbessie]

I've included here two logs - one from the "Add interface" menu at debug level, and one file log at debug level. (I looked for a way to attach the files, but I couldn't find a way to do that in this forum; I tried including both logs in the body of this posting, but was told the posting was too large - any attachment capability in this forum I've missed? In any case, I uploaded them elsewhere and have provided URLs).

The problem starts (or is more noticable) when I run at fullscreen. When run within the VLC window at a smaller size, it isn't noticable.

This is VLC for Windows 2.10 by the way.

http://www.timbessie.com/misc/text/vlc.file.log

http://www.timbessie.com/misc/text/vlc.interface.log

- Tim