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It will let me do around 5-6 frame by frames then it just stops working. any ideas what to do?

That is known issue. There isn't any easy workaround for that AFAIK.

I also would like to use the VLC Frame by Frame feature.

Have not tried VLC ver 2.0.1 so do not know if this problem has been corrected.

If this is still a problem, how do I volunteer to be a Beta Tester concerning this?

Thanks

Ken

2.0.1 should be better for that.

Providing info more than asking a question:

The freeze problem is very dependent on where I am in the video; the number of frame advances I get before lock-up may be proportional to the length of video remaining. I.e., if I am at the end of a video it is a few (3-4), near the end, several, but at the beginning, hundreds. I've been looking around to see if video is stored in a cache somewhere or frames go through some kind of intermediate state where they have a filename or tag that has length proportional to position, but have got nowhere with that.

The seriousness of the crash depends on how many steps I take after the first freeze before I shut down VLC. Shutdown is always obligatory; it never recovers. But if I try a bunch of things like trying to advance more frames, or hitting play, or play and then freeze again, the crash gets "deeper." Once I got to the point where I had to shut off the computer using the power button and restart Windows.

Situation is the same for both 2.0.1 and 2.0.5
Under Windows XP SP3.

Haven't tried earlier versions.

Seems to be source file type independent (no difference for wmv vs avi, for example.)

Thanks