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My device is an HTC Rezound running Gingerbread.

What I'm seeing is that when I hold the device vertically (Portrait orientation) all video playback is perfect, but when I switch to horizontal (Landscape) I see the following.

1. Pauses and skips in playback - like the video is skipping in order to keep in sync with the audio.

2. Picture quality de-generates into random, blocky display, then fixes itself a few seconds later.

If I rotate back to the vertical everything is fine again.

Please let me know if I can provide any further detail to assist in debugging. Thanks!

It would help us a lot if you could try and get a logcat log: http://wiki.videolan.org/Android_Report_bugs#Logcat_log

I looks like the logcat output is only left by an application crash or "force close" event. In this case the app stability is solid, just a few glitches in playback.

Am I missing something?

If you see further down to "Logcat log" you can also get debugging messages that will help us.

OK, how do I submit it to you?

Use any pastebin site e.g. http://pastebin.com/

looks like the cpu is at its limit, or another app is busy in the background, and sometimes vlc drops a few frames, causing some artefacts.

Seems to be missing the libvlc parts. Ensure that "Verbose" is enabled in VLC preferences.

Just to bring closure to this thread, I'm pretty diligent about killing background tasks and freezing non-essential apps. I've tried basically all the apps that have the ability to play flv's - VLC in portrait mode is the only one that doesn't skip or fall into slow playback / lose sync with the audio. I feel like it's "close" to being perfect. I see the same symptom with all file types (avi, mp4, flv, and webm) including files that the native player handles fine - except the native player only does mp4 and avi. I assume that the native (stock android) player is just a pass-through for native OS decoding (I'm still learning all this stuff).

Again, thanks for the help.

Hey, I just grabbed the 2012-07-25 build and the problem is gone! What was the fix?

Thanks so much, I've waited a long time for this - 100% smooth playback of arbitrary flv files at HD - no one else has this, including the paid apps.

And it does not work in 2012-07-24? Can you check?

If it is for flv, maybe this is the fix of the main VLC repo, but I doubt it.

No it's not just .flv, but that is what I test with most often because it has to be done in software.

Is there a way to get access to the nightly build history? I don't think I saved the .apk for 2012-07-24 so I can't do a real regression test. Or I guess in this case a "reverse" regression.