Postby craigwf » 23 Mar 2009 03:20
I have the same comment, though my video lag (once VLC appears) is usually only about 2 or 3 seconds. Also, when I advance the video several minutes by moving the slider, the video sometimes appears badly pixellated for a couple seconds. This behavior did not appear in any of the prior versions I have used in the past six years, and prior versions would start the video almost immediately instead of after a loading time of 3 or 4 seconds that the current version takes before appearing at all. I haven't mentioned this before as I imagined that the "security update" of 0.9.8a required some additional time and processing to assure the file opened was safe and would not permit anyone to take control of my pc.
N.B. Deleting the %appdata%\vlc folder does appear to have improved things substantially, though the pixellated video seen for a few seconds after advancing the movie several minutes still remains when viewing some H.264 videos.