VLC becomes less and less fault tolerant ?

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VLC becomes less and less fault tolerant ?

Postby Serville » 11 Jul 2009 17:38

I don't know whether I have to blame the video as problematic or VLC, but I currently have more & more problems playing most videos in VLC player than anything else.
I remember when I used VLC 0.86, everything worked as promised, but then I kept upgrading to later version and all I have is more problems.
Now, with version 0.94 or the latest v. 1.0 some videos I play will immediately get stuck after 3-4 seconds (both pictures & audio). Whenever I skip to certain part of the video, it also get stuck. The message (at verbosity level 2) shows intensive "PTS is out of range : dropping buffer".
But whenever I play the same videos with other players like Windows Media Player, Total Video Player, Winamp (you name it !) , the videos play without a problem even when I skip to certain parts. It also crashes sometimes when opening some videos
I have uninstalled & reinstalled and I still have the same problems. The frustation with VLC is almost endless, to the point I almost uninstalled VLC and use WMP or other players which seems much less problematic.

Even if the videos are the one to blame, then the next question is, how come other players can play these "supposedly problematic" videos without a hiccup when VLC fails completely ?
Frankly I have become very disappointed. Once my favorite player, now it becomes almost useless.

I have tried changing videos & audios output settings, but nothing helps either. I gave up.
Why is this happening ???

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Re: VLC becomes less and less fault tolerant ?

Postby Rémi Denis-Courmont » 11 Jul 2009 21:23

Because many people are whining and few people are actually keeping the code up in shape.
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Re: VLC becomes less and less fault tolerant ?

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 11 Jul 2009 22:32

Because vague accusations means nothing too...

No facts means nothing.
And VLC 1.0. plays way more files than any version before, based on the number of samples we test in our library.
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Re: VLC becomes less and less fault tolerant ?

Postby Serville » 12 Jul 2009 12:13

This is the verbosity message when playing the video file. I saved and opened it with Notepad :

main warning: PTS is out of range (1149954), dropping buffer
main warning: PTS is out of range (1117985), dropping buffer
main warning: PTS is out of range (1086004), dropping buffer
main warning: PTS is out of range (1054022), dropping buffer
main warning: PTS is out of range (1237197), dropping buffer
main warning: PTS is out of range (1205332), dropping buffer
main warning: PTS is out of range (1173352), dropping buffer
main warning: PTS is out of range (1141371), dropping buffer
main warning: late picture skipped (1391481)
main warning: PTS is out of range (1407138), dropping buffer
main warning: PTS is out of range (1375170), dropping buffer
main warning: PTS is out of range (1343190), dropping buffer
main warning: PTS is out of range (1311211), dropping buffer
main warning: PTS is out of range (1497492), dropping buffer
...... continues

Same problem playing the videos in Dell Inspiron 1501 & Toshiba and another desktop computer with VLC.
In all computers, WMP (& other players) plays it fine.

See the snapshot of my VLC here.
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Re: VLC becomes less and less fault tolerant ?

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 12 Jul 2009 15:09

First you are showing a 0.8.6 version of VLC.

Then you don't give the broken sample.

What do you want us to do with it?
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