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Hi Folks,

When I use VLC to go thru a short video (1 to 1 1/2 min. long) frame by frame at various spots in the video, in order to select frames to capture, it starts freezing the video after I've used it a bit in the video, especially towards the end of the video. Then I have to use the video time slider at the bottom to move the video position slightly, and start again. Only it's impossible to tell exactly where you were when it froze... Once it starts freezing, it does so very quickly again and again. So I wind up wasting a lot of time, and getting duplicate screen grabs too.

Is there some way to get it to stop doing this?

Also, is there any way to use VLC to automatically capture ALL frames in a video at once?

Thanks in advance for any help!

Try a different output module. Direct3D11 works best for me. Hit Ctrl + P to open preferences and click the Video button. You'll find the output modules in there. Save, exit and restart vlc every time you make a change otherwise the new setting will be lost.

I don't know the answer to the second part of your question I'm afraid.

Hello.
I used to be able to do this flawlessly about 2 weeks ago. As of 2 weeks now, I've been getting this freezing when playing a video from a network stream. No settings have changed. But I did try changing the settings from automatic to Direct3D11. (I personally think auto is the best)

I removed VLC player and re-installed from the newest downloaded version.

I installed VLC on another windows 10 machine. Same thing.

I don't think this is a "user-specific" issue anymore at this point.


But I posted on another thread as well......my baddy...

https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.ph ... 06#p521906

Thanks Hitchhiker, I'll give that a try. Fingers crossed, hope it works!! Very frustrating to try to go frame by frame and have it freeze the video instead rather than being able to continue forward a frame at a time1

Hi Bojones,

Are you talking about problems when you're going frame by frame, or just normal playback? I don't have any problems with playback, but I'm also not using a network stream, I'm using a video on my own harddrive. My problem is only when I pause the video, then use the "E" key to move forward a single frame at a time...

disable avcodec frame dropping/hurry up in prefs