video skips

[acornrevolution]

How would one go about fixing that? I fear it is a hardware problem, something that will be hard for me to fix since I have an American (Gateway) laptop, and I'm living in S. Korea.

[acornrevolution]

Oh, this problem, for me, and as far as I can remember, never happens with headphones. I tried a scene from a movie today with VLC and WMP. It skipped everytime. Then I tried it with headphones and speakers, and there was no problem. Internal audio was up all the way. Does this help narrow the diagnosis down??

[FireXtol]

I have this same problem when playing DIVX5.2.0/mp4a(8c).

Also I'ved noticed throughout this anime series, Get Backers ( http://www.mininova.org/tor/859947 ), that VLC spikes to ~619 MB of VM!

Oddly, there are h.264/mp4a(8c) files that playback fine, but still cause the VM of VLC to go upto ~619 MB.

Draw your own conclusions.

P.S. Had to use The Core Media Player, which other than odd functionality... played them fine. Weird thing would default with subtitles, so I managed to disable them.... Now I can't get them back! Oh bother.

[bbb_uk]

I also had this problem.

I constantly got errors like, "main warning: PTS is out of range (10000), dropping buffer", but my CPU usage was very little and the mpg files played fine using Media Player Classic.

I managed to solve this problem, by unticking the option, "Minimise number of threads" within the Advanced Preferences - under the heading of performance options (also ensure the Advanced options is ticked in bottom right hand corner).

[acornrevolution]

I will try this one more time. So far, i switched to laptop speakers and have no problems. Speakers are better anyway, since they're louder, but it sucks to have a part possibly broken in the computer. I will report back.

[DJ]

All digital video is sync to audio. When there is lots of late picture or rebuffering of the audio the picture will not sync. VLC uses sync because it is a packet based streaming video player. The problem area is your Audio card or drivers being able to sync and or maintain the sync.

[acornrevolution]

Minimize Number of Threads has been unticked the whole time for me!

DJ....what are the tweaks/troubleshooting ideas/ways to fix the sync problems then?