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Dear all,
I recently migrated from latest VLC 1.x to VLC 2.0.1
I was very disappointed because simple MP3s which use hardly any CPU at all suddenly "stuttered" i.e. playback would halt like 0,5 seconds before continuing.
So I increased my "file buffer size" to 2000ms.
It seems I am not alonw with that, many people here in the forum complained. Plus, I have a WD raptor drive, how fast should it be? :/

with that new value and after a restart of VLC, I get a different behaviour:
it stutters less often, but each time it stutters, it will hang for 1,5 SECONDS

Plus, I seem to have another issue in addition
when I change the volume while playing an MP3, it takes a LOOOONG time until the volume is actually changed!

I am running latest nightly VLC as of today (hint: If I could copy/paste text from the about box it would be easier to give the actual version number)
"was compiled by buildslave may 1 2012 02:21:36"
running on WinXP SP2 on a Core2Duo E8400 @ 3GHz (no overclocking whatsoever)

if I can diagnose anything, pull traces or something, I'd be happy to do so. I love VLC and it makes me cry that the current release is unusable. Until then, I'll downgrade to 1.0 (again)

All the best from gernoth

Please can you try some of the options from this post:
viewtopic.php?p=339577#p339577

And report back what has worked for you.


The volume lag is another issue which might be fixed soon (see ticket 5654).

it seems that graphic equalizer "on" improves the playback a lot
I still have issues after jumping around in a file.
will stick to nightly 2.0.2 now and see what I can reproduce

OK now I have no pauses but still those cracks, as if there was a decompression error (the way you sometimes hear when the source file is bad - I know it isnt because I've heard that file often)
way to go :/