FF or RW seek makes play head jumpy?

pctechtv · Postby **pctechtv** » 21 Jul 2018 08:05

I have recently upgraded to the current release of VLC. I am using the Windows 64bit version (3.0.3 Vetinari). In previous versions of VLC when I would hold down the right of left arrow key while the video was playing the play head (CTI) would quickly move forward or backward to the desired location. Now when I do the same it does this weird jumping around I have never seen before. When the video is stopped it does not seem to do it. It only seems to happen with certain videos. I think it is ones that are downloaded from the web. Is there any way to stop this and return it to how the previous version worked? Thanks

Postby **chubinou** » 23 Jul 2018 09:43

Hi,
Can you try to enable/disable "fast seek" in tool > preference > input/codecs to see if it better suits your needs.

pctechtv · Postby **pctechtv** » 25 Jul 2018 04:52

It was unchecked. I checked it, then saved and closed VLC. At this point, no change happened in the playback. I went back to it and unchecked it. Now it does not jump around. I am pleased with the outcome, however, I am scratching my head... could this be a bug? Thanks

Postby **Jean-Baptiste Kempf** » 25 Jul 2018 10:09

What file format is that?

pctechtv · Postby **pctechtv** » 26 Jul 2018 06:11

Well... it was doing it with all type of files. I used *.mp4, *.avi, *.mov, and *.mkv. It was doing it with all of them.

pctechtv · Postby **pctechtv** » 05 Sep 2018 04:32

I realized later that it never changed. It just seemed like it did when I unchecked and checked it a few times. Now I have downloaded the newest VLC 3.0.4 and it still does this. Now it also does not update the picture when using the forward hotkey. Thanks

Stef_An · Postby **Stef_An** » 10 Sep 2018 23:35

Thank you very much. I had a similar problem and it was solved by activating this very “fast seek” option. So now I can use the VLC version 3.0

pctechtv · Postby **pctechtv** » 26 Sep 2018 23:26

Cool glad this info served you. As for me no change whether or not Fast Seek is on or off. I am back to using 2.2.8 Weatherwax version which works flawlessly. I hope the new versions can work this out. I will be willing to help out in any way they ask to get this fixed.

pctechtv · Postby **pctechtv** » 13 Nov 2018 09:36

I keep checking to see if Nvidia's driver make a difference when they release a new version. I have installed the latest again and nothing has changed.

pctechtv · Postby **pctechtv** » 12 Jan 2019 23:37

I installed vlc-4.0.0-20190111-0834-dev-win64.exe and the problem is not present. This is great I hope the development team makes it stick. Let me know if I can help. Thanks

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