Lines and stuttered playback

[liendale]

When playing .avi files in vlc the playback is fine when the window is smaller, but in full screen the video playback kind of stutters a bit, it's kind of jagged and when things move there are lines, as if parts of the video are moving in little segments. It works a little better in 16 bit, but of course the quality is just terrible. Any thoughts?

[CloudStalker]

Go to the “Preferences menu” > “Video tab”, and check to see if “Overlay video output” is enabled. This uses you’re video card’s hardware acceleration, which makes for smoother playback.

[jester805]

I think I have the same problem. I posted about it here, but haven't gotten any replies yet.

[liendale]

Yeah, that option is already clicked in VLC by default. Any other thoughts? My computer is P4 3ghz, 512mb, so I'm struggling to see what the issue is here.

[DJ]

AVI is a container. What are the formats in use?

Jitter is generally associated with you machines ability to sync audio and video and is sound card related. Try updating your sound card's drivers.

[liendale]

Sound card was just installed and all drivers are up to date (this is a new computer). This happens with divx and xvid.

[DJ]

Try playing a commercial DVD and open your Task Manager. If the CPU usage is more than 2 to 4% you are missing a AGP or PCIe driver.

[liendale]

Ah hah, at full screen it's using 40-50% cpu. That would explain it. What exactly do I need to configure/download to remedy this?

[liendale]

Never mind. All fixed. Went to the HP site and reinstalled the video drivers. Tip top in the CPU. For some reason when I installed XP, the graphics drivers weren't installed correctly. I guess I just assumed they were. I should have checked that out first.