When playing pretty much any HD h264 video VLC often stutters and ceases displaying frames with no interruption of the audio. CPU usage never goes above 50% percent of a single core (after setting process affinity to that core) and drops to background levels while the video is frozen. 0.8.6 has similar issues for me but it seems to be more willing to hard drop frames and have a messed up image rather than not show anything at all. If it was a case of the processor being maxed out I could understand but having issues like this with 50% or less processor usage seems rather odd. Disk activity is minimal to none as well.
The file I tested with is "Zero no Tsukaima: Princess no Rondo - 1 [SS-Eclipse] [9B3DBD00].mkv" and can be found at lolipower.org
Any help is much appreciated. System information follows.
Vista Ultimate SP1
VLC 0.9.2
Sager 9262 with:
Intel Core 2 Quad 9450 2.66
GeForce 9800M GT
Integrated Realtek HD Audio