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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?

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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?

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.