Having a very strange problem seeking with mkv files

[phantomftr]

I'm using version .8.6d and playing H264 encoded .mkv files. They play fine on my windows XP box but I just built a new Vista PC and am having a strange problem. When I first start the PC I can only seek through about the first 5 minutes of the movie. If I try to go any farther than 5 minutes the sound and picture will cut out but the time will still move normally like the movie is still playing. If I go back to within the first five minutes the video and audio kick back in and all is fine. As time goes on, even if the VLC player is closed, I can seek through more and more of the movie without having it blank out. After the PC is on for about an hour I can seek through about 1 hour of a movie before it blanks out.

This is a very weird problem and I cant think of anything that would cause this to happen. I have tried everything I can think of to solve it from completely removing my sound card to installing different video card drivers and messing with pretty much every option there is in the player. If anyone has an idea please let me know because this is driving me nuts. Thanks!

[phantomftr]

I restarted my windows XP box and it does the same thing with that OS also. It only does it with H264 movies that I have encoded at 720p or higher. Its not a big deal because after the PC is running for a few hours you can seek through the whole movie no problem but its a bug you should be aware of.

[VLC_help]

Have you tried remux that MKV file? Does View -> Messages complain something?

[Turv]

I have the exact same problem you are experiencing,

When i try and skip through a movie, and i do View->Messages it displays:

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main debug: control type=5 mkv debug: seek request to -1 (0.345300%) mkv debug: seek got 2286413000 (34%) ffmpeg warning: cannot decode one frame (9679 bytes) ffmpeg warning: cannot decode one frame (11574 bytes) ffmpeg warning: cannot decode one frame (13497 bytes) ffmpeg warning: cannot decode one frame (13758 bytes) ffmpeg warning: cannot decode one frame (12134 bytes) ffmpeg warning: cannot decode one frame (13134 bytes) ffmpeg warning: cannot decode one frame (11716 bytes) ffmpeg warning: cannot decode one frame (6610 bytes) ffmpeg warning: cannot decode one frame (6895 bytes) ffmpeg warning: cannot decode one frame (5912 bytes) ffmpeg warning: cannot decode one frame (4959 bytes) ffmpeg warning: cannot decode one frame (4481 bytes) ffmpeg warning: cannot decode one frame (3885 bytes) ffmpeg warning: cannot decode one frame (4498 bytes) ffmpeg warning: cannot decode one frame (4239 bytes) ffmpeg warning: cannot decode one frame (3719 bytes) ffmpeg warning: cannot decode one frame (2994 bytes) ffmpeg warning: cannot decode one frame (1885 bytes) ffmpeg warning: cannot decode one frame (2745 bytes) ffmpeg warning: cannot decode one frame (2932 bytes) ffmpeg warning: cannot decode one frame (3149 bytes) ffmpeg warning: cannot decode one frame (3195 bytes) ffmpeg warning: cannot decode one frame (2953 bytes) ffmpeg warning: cannot decode one frame (2849 bytes) ffmpeg warning: cannot decode one frame (2522 bytes) ffmpeg warning: cannot decode one frame (2932 bytes) ffmpeg warning: cannot decode one frame (2844 bytes) ffmpeg warning: cannot decode one frame (2780 bytes) ffmpeg warning: cannot decode one frame (2757 bytes) ffmpeg warning: cannot decode one frame (2728 bytes) ffmpeg warning: cannot decode one frame (2395 bytes) ffmpeg warning: cannot decode one frame (2337 bytes) ffmpeg warning: cannot decode one frame (2144 bytes) ffmpeg warning: cannot decode one frame (1908 bytes) ffmpeg warning: cannot decode one frame (1965 bytes) ffmpeg warning: cannot decode one frame (1750 bytes) ffmpeg warning: cannot decode one frame (1770 bytes) ffmpeg warning: cannot decode one frame (1770 bytes) ffmpeg warning: cannot decode one frame (1990 bytes) ffmpeg warning: cannot decode one frame (1537 bytes) ffmpeg warning: cannot decode one frame (1752 bytes) ffmpeg warning: cannot decode one frame (1667 bytes) ffmpeg warning: cannot decode one frame (1528 bytes) ffmpeg warning: cannot decode one frame (1401 bytes)

I am running Vista Home, This has only started occuring today on .mkv files.

[phantomftr]

Yeap I get the same messages as Turv

[VLC_help]

Does it work better with nightly builds?
http://nightlies.videolan.org/

[ChuckNorris]

I have the same problem, with any .mp4 file (using the H264 codec) i tested. I will try the latest nightly release and give some feedback.

[phantomftr]

Does it work better with nightly builds?
http://nightlies.videolan.org/

I'm unable to run any of the nightly builds on either my XP or vista PC's. I've tried downloading and running like 6 different versions and they all just hang in the taskbar unresponsive when I run vlc.exe

[ChuckNorris]

I haven't tested 6 versions, and i only run XP, but i wasn't able to get anything to work either.

[vbElefant]

I have exactly the same problem as the ones above (actually I'm glad I haven't to describe the problem myself ). I use following Software:

VLC 0.8.6
Win XP Pro SP2 and Win2000 SP4, it's exactly the same in both of this

My videos are encoded this way:

MKV-Container
Vorbis Audio
XVid Video
Created with GordianKnot ==> muxed with VirtualDub

The funny thing is: With the version 0.7.2 of VLC everything works fine, I can seek in the videos without any problems, but with the actual version I have the same problem as the others. Furthermore I must say, that I tried this on five very different PCs, so it can't be a problem with the graphic adapter or something. It seems to me that VLC has a problem with certain filetypes...

PS: Sorry for my bad school english

[VLC_help]

Try to remux with some other tool than Virtualdubmod.

[vbElefant]

I just remuxed one of my files with AVI-Mux_GUI-1.17.7. In VLC 0.7.2 the file was not very nice to view - it is bucking (I looked up this word, no idea if it fits her ). In VLC 0.8.6 I could watch the file as before: It was playing normally, bit I still can't seek through the file. In the messages window I get messages like this:

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main debug: control type=5 mkv debug: seek request to -1 (0.621900%) mkv debug: seek got 3298263500 (64%) main error: decoder is leaking pictures, resetting the heap main error: picture 00D27318 refcount is -1 main error: decoder is leaking pictures, resetting the heap main error: picture 00D27318 refcount is -1 main error: decoder is leaking pictures, resetting the heap main error: picture 00D27318 refcount is -1 main error: decoder is leaking pictures, resetting the heap main error: picture 00D27318 refcount is -1 main error: decoder is leaking pictures, resetting the heap main error: picture 00D27318 refcount is -1 main error: decoder is leaking pictures, resetting the heap main error: picture 00D27318 refcount is -1 main error: decoder is leaking pictures, resetting the heap main error: picture 00D27318 refcount is -1 main error: decoder is leaking pictures, resetting the heap main error: picture 00D27318 refcount is -1

/e: The same thing with mkvtoolnix...

/e2: The nightly build from the 9th February plays and seeks fine in my mkv-Videos. I hope it'll be stable enough for daily use soon

[phantomftr]

This bug is still present in v0.8.6e