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Re: video freezes, sound keeps going

Postby mcgon1979 » 11 Nov 2009 19:25

i upgraded my PC to Windows 7, and latest video driver. problem solved :)

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Re: video freezes, sound keeps going

Postby madailot » 12 Nov 2009 09:47

Same here. Seem that windows driver is the key.

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Re: video freezes, sound keeps going

Postby magdiel1975 » 22 Dec 2011 18:06

I have the latest version of VLC on Windows 7 and the video keeps freezing after a few minutes of play. I have a 30-35 second video that plays continuesly, but it freezes after a few mintues... so I guess Windows 7 has not solved the problem. Any other suggestions.

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Re: video freezes, sound keeps going

Postby ctw » 05 Jan 2012 13:10

Modifying the Caching Value from 300ms to 800ms got rid of the problem, thank you very much for the tip :-)
Hi there,
Is this the solution for the problem?
It happens also on Linux Ubuntu.
Or what are the settings for VLC (in Linux) to get rod of the problem?
Thank you in advance for the answer. :D

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Re: video freezes, sound keeps going

Postby Alizkat » 11 Feb 2012 23:54

Hi Guys,

I am not sure how many of you still have problems with this, but I found this site, and found it quite helpful, its not perfect but much much better

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows/ ... deo-files/

i signed up just to post this, so i hope it helps.

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Re: video freezes, sound keeps going

Postby brockhuffaker » 20 Mar 2012 05:59

I was having issues just like described with .3gp files. I really wan't trying any other files besides mp4 and mkv, but 3gp had the frozen video issue. I simply went into the preferences under the input&codecs tab and checked the box that says "use GPU accelerated decoding". This seemed to fix my issue. Also, I found if that doesn't work try downloaded the cccp (combined community codec pack) during the installation make sure you click the link to installed the latest something - x codec. I forget what it was called, but I remember reading that someone else tried that and it worked.

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Re: video freezes, sound keeps going

Postby kirstie89 » 15 May 2012 15:36

i am having the exact same problem but also when i try to play movies the ones that do play i cant actually watch because my screen is covered in white vertical lines ........... im finding this very frustrating as i have never had a problem with vlc before untill i installed that last update

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Re: video freezes, sound keeps going

Postby Lotesdelere » 15 May 2012 20:33

i cant actually watch because my screen is covered in white vertical lines
Try another video output module:
http://wiki.videolan.org/WindowsFAQ-2.0 ... _output.3F

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Re: video freezes, sound keeps going

Postby kirstie89 » 18 May 2012 01:21

thanks.... i tried it and it was still the same so i have given in and re downloaded vlc version 1.0.1 now its back to working perfect... think im just going to stick with this version from now on

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Re: video freezes, sound keeps going

Postby Blackcat13 » 20 May 2013 17:36

My problem is almost like this problem but different. For me the video will play along with the audio, then both just stop but the timer (the thing that shows you how far into the video you are) keeps on going, until it hits a section of the video were everything starts up again for a few minutes then audio and video freeze again and the timer keeps on going.

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Re: video freezes, sound keeps going

Postby soho1001 » 13 Sep 2013 07:23

Hi All,

even I use the version VLC 2.1.0-rc2.
I got the same problem when I try to play the live stream.
Is there any solution?

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Re: video freezes, sound keeps going

Postby goatherd » 02 Sep 2014 22:56

This happens with every video I shoot on my Samsung s3, which is recording in VLC format but until today I had the resulution set at 1280x 720. Just lowered it to 720x480 but that hardly seems a solution.

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Re: video freezes, sound keeps going

Postby shmerl » 13 May 2015 01:43

I have this problem with Android version of VLC (both regular and beta from the Google Play Store). Is there a filed bug for this? Here is a sample which demonstrates this bug: http://wikisend.com/download/361126/test.mp4

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Re: video freezes, sound keeps going

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 13 May 2015 10:56

What is your device?
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Re: video freezes, sound keeps going

Postby khpura » 13 May 2015 19:04

I am seeing this also with VLC 0.9.8 on Mac OSX 10.5.5.

The source material is ripped DVDs. If I just play the movie there is no freeze. But if I skip (shift-right) or use the keys for next/prev chapter then on some movies it might do the video-freezes-audio-plays-on thing. Other movies seem to never do it.

The location of a freeze is random - if I jump to a location and start skipping and get a freeze, trying again might skip right over that spot.

After a skip the playback may be jerky. If playback is smooth after a skip it will not freeze. If playback is jerky then it might freeze within 1-3 seconds, otherwise it continues jerky playback. If I skip again, start over - it might be smooth this time or jerky...

When video freezes it is has the appearance of demosiac junk, as though the decoder processed some garbage and some good data. The intended image can be recognized but it is badly smeared and blocky.

Whenever it freezes I can change the deinterlace setting and video starts playing again. I assume the video decoder resyncs correctly with input stream.

I was having the same problem, then i saw this thread and was able to fix it with some pointers mentioned here.

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Re: video freezes, sound keeps going

Postby KingRogue » 07 Sep 2015 07:17

I'm still having this issue. I have tried to all of the suggestions on this discussion, but nothing seems to fix it.

I am running Windows 8, with VLC version 2.2.1.
I am trying to watch an m4v, I am not sure if the issue occurs with other file types.

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Re: video freezes, sound keeps going

Postby kosme10 » 01 Mar 2017 22:06

Using VLC 2.2.4 on Windows 7.
I solved it using @Oleja's solution.
I increased Cache Values from 300 to 1000 using this: https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.ph ... 71#p445071
It's now working :D


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