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Can anyone help me here, FLV files judder constantly when playing in VLC. all other file-types play fine. Windows media cannot play them so I downloaded FLV player to see if that did the same thing, it plays them perfectly.

Is there a setting I have to select, or de-select to make it play this file type smoothly. I would like to have VLC media player doing everything so please, if you can advise, I would be grateful.

I run Vista Ultimate on a Laptop, 2GB Ram, tons of room on the hard drive, SiS Mirage 3 Graphics, Intel Core 2 Duo CPU T5800 2x2.00GHz

Could you share us one problematic file?

I suspect he has the same problem as me: http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/2590

Please, replace the youtube.lua file in your VLC/lua/playlist folder with that one: http://kovezett.uw.hu/youtube.lua to make VLC capable parsing the URL of the the higher quality fmt files on YouTube. After that open these links: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTDEMSEOOZg&fmt=35
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zdf4SNG-VSU&fmt=35
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6g0aYzcTpY&fmt=35
or any videos transcoded to H264/FLV formats after cca February this year.

I mean open the links with the VLC player, of course

Please, replace the youtube.lua file in your VLC/lua/playlist folder with that one: http://kovezett.uw.hu/youtube.lua to make VLC capable parsing the URL of the the higher quality fmt files on YouTube.

Thanks for your help but unfortunately it doesn't change anything for me with VLC 1.0.0-rc1 on Windows XP. The videos are still very jerky

Please, replace the youtube.lua file in your VLC/lua/playlist folder with that one: http://kovezett.uw.hu/youtube.lua to make VLC capable parsing the URL of the the higher quality fmt files on YouTube.

Thanks for your help but unfortunately it doesn't change anything for me with VLC 1.0.0-rc1 on Windows XP. The videos are still very jerky

This is not the solution! I indicated that you probably have the same problem I reported here: viewtopic.php?p=188914#p188914

Have you downloaded your jerky FLV files from YouTube?

Please, replace the youtube.lua file in your VLC/lua/playlist folder with that one: http://kovezett.uw.hu/youtube.lua to make VLC capable parsing the URL of the the higher quality fmt files on YouTube.

Thanks for your help but unfortunately it doesn't change anything for me with VLC 1.0.0-rc1 on Windows XP. The videos are still very jerky

Open the URL without the &fmt=35: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTDEMSEOOZg. Is it still jerky?

I have problems only with the files using the new format with the &fmt=35 tag. Other FLV files are working fine. And yes, it's the problem described in ticket #2590 which I believe is a splitter issue.

I've just noticed you tried to help me 2 month ago
Well, it seems the developers don't have a priority for this bug

Hi, the file I noticed this on was dl'd from youtube here: http://buzznewsroom.com/entertainment/t ... x-edition/

The trailer for Transformers Two.

I had a look at the other post - seems an awful lot of trouble to go through to play one file type, I just came across another type today - f4v which VLC played perfectly, so I have decided to stick with FLV player just to play the flv files.

I tried to dl the file that was mentioned earlier in this thread, I couldn't get it or I would have tried the solution. I personally would prefer a programme that would play everything under the sun (apart from K-Lite), whether it be VLC, Media player or anything else - luckily I do not download a lot of video media. thanks though for the advice here - I appreciate it.