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Hey guys, I'm currently running VLC 1.1.3 & 1.1.4

Intel Core i7-920 Bloomfield 2.66GHz
ASUS P6T Deluxe V2 LGA 1366 Intel X58 ATX
SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 5870 (Cross-Fire)
CORSAIR DOMINATOR 12GB (6 x 2GB)
Intel X25-M 80GB SATA II MLC
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty
Windows 7 64Bit

My problem is whenever bright white light comes into play when watchingt a movie, the audio and video stutters, and I get artifacts.

For example, if a large explosion was to take place in the movie and causes a bright white flash, the audio and video acts up. It doesn't do this with any other player I may happen to use, so I'm wonderign if there is a setting I'm missing or if its a issue with VLC.

Any help on this is greatly appreciated!

Thanks,

BC

Anyone have a solution to this?

Comment? Anything other than having my post ignored or acknowledged?

I've been using the VLC Media player for a while now. Within the last few months, I've noticed that the audio stutters (1-2 ms) when playing DVDs from the disk. It doesn't seem to do this with media files on the hard drive, and none of the other media players I use (Win Media Player, Real, Quick Time) does this.

I haven't noticed that this is linked with specific things in the video (re. white lights, explosions, etc). I mostly notice the issue when watching drumming DVDs; a single stick hit sounds like a flam, and I can hear the audio stutter 2-3 times.

I haven't seen anything about this on the forums, but I'll keep looking...

Beef, you aren't alone... I have the exact same problem.

My hardware is completely different (I don't have the specs on my machine handy, so I'll avoid guessing). I am running Win 7 64.

The issue has existed for a while, but has gotten noticably worse in the last version of vlc I installed... I was hoping there was a quick solution, but it looks like your request has gone answered for most of a year.

I'm pushing this machine pretty hard to watch video smoothly, HD video will sometimes stutter regardless of the brightness, but typically 1.5 megapixel-ish video has no trouble at all. UNLESS there is an intensely bright scene. Audio starts to pop when there are explosions or flashes.

For a while I thought it was extreme changes in volume... but I realized background music over otherwise soundless flashes also cut out.

My assumption is that processing for a lot of "white" is somehow more intense than dark scenes, and the audio is what takes the hit.

I was hoping the the processor would have a switch somewhere that would allow me to protect the audio instead... dropping the framerate while keeping the sound smooth would be a much nicer tradeoff.

Or... you know... not doing it at all would be cool too.

OB

You can try OpenGL video output module, it should work better with AOUTs.
http://wiki.videolan.org/WindowsFAQ-1.1 ... _output.3F