X264 Playback Issues

[dave.p]

Hi,

I have been using VLC player for the past two years now without any issues. I have been recently using it to play 720p HD videos but playing them is not smooth. Video keeps freezing.

Here are my PC details,

Dell XPS Laptop
OS - Windows 7
RAM - 4GB
Video - NVIDIA GeForce 8700M GT

Here are the error messages from VLC Player(V1.0.5) with Verbosity level 2,

main warning: late picture skipped (4000 > -12918)
main warning: late picture skipped (61000 > -11891)
main warning: late picture skipped (80000 > -11668)
main warning: late picture skipped (121000 > -11501)
main warning: late picture skipped (150000 > -12125)
main warning: late picture skipped (-3708 > -9446)
main warning: late picture skipped (-5000 > -9334)
main warning: late picture skipped (65000 > -10687)
main warning: late picture skipped (125000 > -10515)
main warning: late picture skipped (168000 > -10386)
main warning: late picture skipped (195000 > -10289)
main warning: late picture skipped (250000 > -12474)
avcodec error: more than 5 seconds of late video -> dropping frame (computer too slow ?)
main warning: late picture skipped (293000 > -10788)
main warning: late picture skipped (35000 > -12971)
main warning: late picture skipped (77000 > -12978)

Any help on this will be greatly appreciated.

[ditroia]

Hi I have the same issue. I have been using VLC since version 8.0, [Currently 1.05 Golden Eye] on both Vista Ultimate 32 and now Win 7 Pro 64. My CPU is a Intel T7600 with 2X 2.33 Processors and 4MB cache, I have 4GB RAM, [3.25GB usable] With a 512MB 7950GTX.

I believe it's an issue with one of the newer builds of VLC, as my Laptop has been able to play 720p mkv rips fine for ages, until recently. I can still play QT 1080p trailers in QT so I doubt it's my PC. When I upgraded to Win 7 I thought it may help but it hasn't. Could it be a setting in VLC that I can try or should I revert back to a previous version?

I have the latest Drivers for everything and my Windows Experience index is 5.7.

XVID files run smoothly.

Cheers

Dave

EDIT: Note I also have a Dell XPS Laptop.

[dave.p]

Hi ditroia,

I remember it used to work before, not sure if it's certain version of VLC that worked. Because I have upgrade my PC from vista to windows 7 RC last year then Windows 7 RTM this year. so few things have changed along with VLC.

Few have recommended Skipping loop filter for X264 in video codecs of VLC settings. But that did not work for me either. I use Media Player Classic at the moment to play mkv files - MPC is the only one that works on my pc. VLC Player, KM Player, SM Player, BS Player - none of them work(one or the other problem, in some player no video, in some video and audio is out of sync, in some it's freezing)

It's very frustating, I am glad to know there is someone else having the same problem.

Hopefully someone from this forum can shed some light on this that will help to resolve the issue.

[VLC_help]

H.264 decoder used in VLC doesn't support multicore decoding. So it isn't very good for modern day computers. Media Player Classic Home Cinema has build-in decoder which supports multicore decoding and GPU acceleration. VLC 1.1.0 will also support GPU acceleration.

[dave.p]

Thanks for the update. MPC-HC is the one that I use now, the only one that seems to work.

Any idea when 1.1.0 will be releasing?

Does the latest nightly VLC build support multicore decoding by any chance?

[VLC_help]

Does the latest nightly VLC build support multicore decoding by any chance?

No.

[ditroia]

H.264 decoder used in VLC doesn't support multicore decoding. So it isn't very good for modern day computers. Media Player Classic Home Cinema has build-in decoder which supports multicore decoding and GPU acceleration. VLC 1.1.0 will also support GPU acceleration.

Thanks for the info. Any idea why playback may have degraded in 1.05? Also will the upcoming GPU acceleration support Nivida 7 series cards?

Which MPC should I get?

Cheers

Dave

[VLC_help]

Any idea why playback may have degraded in 1.05?

You have tried to remove %appdata%\vlc folder?

Also will the upcoming GPU acceleration support Nivida 7 series cards?

Tool called DxVAChecker will tell that (look at H264_VLD).

Which MPC should I get?

Latest MPCHC works fine in here.

[ditroia]

You have tried to remove %appdata%\vlc folder?

But I just recently installed Win 7, and the problem happened in Vista and now Win 7?

Tool called DxVAChecker will tell that (look at H264_VLD).

Ok Thanks.

Latest MPCHC works fine in here.

Cheers

Dave