VLC media player crashes

[dazzafact]

Hi all. Hope you can help. My films keeps freezing on me whilst the ausio keeps running, can't for the life of me figure out why. It used to just happen a couple of times during a film but it now is too many to cope with. Im running Xp, and firefox; I have windows media player 10, and I cant install real player (not sure whether thats connected????) Any help please as I cant watch any bloody films!! Oh, and be gentle, its my first time

[nonamevlc]

Looks like your processor isnt able to do the video work.
How powerful is your PC & were you able to play fine before ?

[DJ]

You can try opening your Task Manager and looking at CPU usage while playing the video to see if this is a problem for you. You can also open a Messages window within VLC to see what kind of errors are being generated when problems are encountered. These things will point to some kind of resolve. Well, beside posting your machine specs and stating the formats and container that is giving you problems.

[dazzafact]

I've a 3.1 pentium 4, 1256 of ram and a load of crap on it. I think I may have sorted it by changing output to gdi; it seems to be fine, and a lot cleener with the cpu usage. Will keep you posted. Thanks anyway.

[DJ]

Shutting down DirectX puts allot of weight on your CPU. While you may not notice this for many things you will notice it when it comes to High Def stuff in particular MPEG HD. So it would probably be best on this one to correct the problem at the source which is your video cards drivers. Updating DirectX runtime wouldn't hurt while you are at it.