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When I try to play videos with resolutions of around 720x576 the screen is gray and the audio doesn't play very well.

Low resolution videos (like 320x240) play fine.

I have a Pentium III 800.

Could it be a configuration problem?

Thanks in advance.

well, are both videos using the same codex/mux ?

could you please send us a log ? (view menu, message box)

You probably have a sucky video card. try setting your displays colors to thousands instead of millions

i had problems playing high-res videos too. i tried a small 640x480 mpeg2_ts file and it played ok, while the 1024x768 version gives a gray screen, and vlc eats up the cpu, i had to kill it. a friend of mine tried the file on a slightly lower spec machine using powerdvd and the file played, with some jerks. and vlc returned the same gray screen and 100% cpu usage on his machine too.

i lost my powerdvd player cd, so i cant try it on my machine right now. ill try to get my lazy butt moving and search for it.

but i do think that the fact vlc took 100% of the cpu when trying to play the file is a bug which should be looked at by the developers.

-G
celeron 2.2GHz 512MB PC2100 RAM (yeay) ati radeon 9000 pro windows xp pro vlc 0.6.2

The message box repeats the following like 50 times:

main warning: late picture skipped (1360640)
ffmpeg error: more than 5 seconds of late video -> dropping frame (computer too slow ?)
main warning: PTS is out of range (6426219), dropping buffer
main debug: audio output is starving (48857), playing silence

The problem is that I don't think my computer is too slow.
It's a Pentium III 800MHz with 256MB of memory.

Thanks.

Well, your CPU might be a bit slow indeed... Decoding high res MPEG is really a CPU intensive task...