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Hi all...

So lately I've been playing back some ripped DVDs, and have noticed that the video will run for about a second, then stop for a VERY short time (1/8 second or less) and then start again, and keep doing this through the whole viewing.

The audio is unaffected, but this stop/start thing is annoying.

This is playback on the machine itself, from the hard drive.

I have played with buffering settings, hardware acceleration settings, codec settings, etc. but to no avail.

Other playback software (MPC-HC, PowerDVD, etc) don't do this, but I prefer using VLC.

Anyone see this behavior before and know some likely causes?

- Tim

Open Tools -> Messages (set Verbosity to 2), it will complain.

Thanks for the suggestion - sadly, when I see the stop/start happening, I don't see any messages displayed. Some debug messages about changing to fullscreen, hiding the mouse, etc, but no errors or warnings.

I wonder if it could be some other component (hardware decoding gone wrong, for example).

- Tim

It should complain about audio sync etc. if the issue is VLC related. You can test it without Use GPU acceleration option, but I would guess it doesn't change anything.

do other players work on them?