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!