VLC Slow in Full Screen only

[Jalba]

Hi, I have the latest version of VLC media player and when i try to play a video (Whether its .avi or .flv which are the two i have tried so far) in fullscreen mode.. the video starts skipping frames.. but the sound stays normal.
If i leave the video at the size it should be.. there is no problem.

When right click it takes a lot of tries to get the menu to come up but when it does and I hit "Full Screen" the screen turns black and a small video box appears on the lower left quickly filling up the entire page.. This all happens within like 2 seconds.. but the video still plays slow.

I've had this PC for about 5 years, and i know its slow.. yet i have not had a single problem like this.. since recently.
I even tried downloading the previous version and the problem still persists. I've also tried the same videos that had no issues a while back and they do now. Im not exactly sure what the problem could be.

Any Ideas?

[CloudStalker]

Update your video card drivers and DirectX drivers.

[trunkdog]

Hello,

One of my systems has VLC 0.9.9. If I allow a movie to run fullscreen it starts out OK. If I allow the small (undocked) navigation bar to disappear playback becomes choppy. I can simply move my mouse cursor around in the screen at I get full framerate playback.

A typical file is 4GB ISO.

My graphics are:

Number of GPUs_______2
Display Adapter_______Radeon X1300/X1550 Series
Video Processor_______ATI Radeon Graphics Processor AGP (0x7142)
Video memory size____256 MBytes
Adapter DAC Type_____Internal DAC(400MHz)
BIOS Date____________03/31/06
Display Drivers________atiumdag.dll,atiumdva.cap,atitmmxx.dll
Driver Version________7.01.01.871
Driver Date__________2009-02-04 07:29:03

I currently am testing on a 22" Dell Monitor at a max of 1600x1050 resolution.
The actually program is intended to be displayed @ 1080p on a Mitsubishi 65" DLP.

[VLC_help]

If I allow the small (undocked) navigation bar to disappear playback becomes choppy.

Some Intel display adapter owners have complained same issue. Does it help, if you change video output module?
http://wiki.videolan.org/WindowsFAQ-0.9 ... _output.3F

[trunkdog]

VLC_help;

Indeed, setting the Output Module to Windows GDI resolved the choppy playback.
I did methodically set and save:
1) Disable Overlay Video Output
Choppy Playback
2) Change the Output Module from "Default" to DirectX 3D
Choppy Playback
3) Change the Output Module from "Default" to DirectX
Choppy Playback
4) Change the Output Module from "Default" to Windows GDI
AcceptablePlayback

I then toggled Overlay Video Output back to Enable.
The playback is acceptable.

I truly value your prompt, competent and precise response.