Audio & Video out of Sync

[mh505]

I have just installed v0.9.4; upgraded from 0.8.6. The latter worked perfectly, and still does (I reinstalled it now).

However, when playing DVDs on 0.9.4, video and audio streams get severely out of sync. I wonder if I have to fiddle with the configuration, or if the hardware is not powerful enough or if this is a flaw with the new version

I am running Windows 2000 on a 1.6Ghz machine with 500MB memory

MH

[VLC_help]

If it is a normal DVD-Video disc, there shouldn't be any CPU time or RAM issues. And there shouldn't be any need to adjust sync on normal store bought DVDs. Tools -> Messages... (set Verbosity to 2) and then start the playback to figure out more.

[mh505]

Yes indeed; any standard DVD. One more thing: in most cases, after playing a DVD with 0.9.4, then closing the player, I get a Windows exception error which never happens under 0.8.6

MH

[VLC_help]

If you can find way that helps us to repeat that exception error, that would be nice.

[r4d-c0ck]

I too am having this issue. i am still researching and trying to figure it out.

[mh505]

Unfortunately, the W2K exception happens so fast that the DrWatson debugger does not pick up the error (I even get a msg to this effect).

However, I will now give it another try with 0.9.5 and see what happens. Will report back

[VLC_help]

DrWatson debugger won't help with VLC.

[mh505]

I k ow, but you were asking for more info (see your msg of 17.10.). Only DrWatson will give me information on the exception error
MH

[VLC_help]

I didn't mean actual crash messages (you can get those also using VLC debug builds and gdb). I meant some short file sample that always show the issue.

[mh505]

I have finally solved the problem, or so it seems.

2 actions:
1) I installed v0.9.8a (it also works under v1.0.0)
2) I took out "embedded video"

Although not guaranteed, I have a notion that it's item 2) that did the trick.

I still get the exception error though (but maybe somewhat less often). Here is what happens.

When closing the VLC player, sometimes a Windows (W2K) program error appears ("process has already exited"). Then DrWatson chimes in with "DrW was unable to attach to the process ... W2K returned error level = 87"

The VLC logfile reports nothing, even though verbose is at 2

I also have now a different problem; with playing DVDs "can't open DVDs 'No Menus' (dvdsimple)". But for this I will start a new thread

MH

[mh505]

Unfortunately my report of "mission accomplished" was a bit premature. It turns out that the matter is not solved at all, on the contrary; things are actually worse as other problems hitherto not apparent have now come to the fore.

Pls see my new thread "Problems of v0.9.x that were not extant under v0.8.x"

MH