issues with pauses in MP3 playback, volume change latency

[gernoth]

Dear all,
I recently migrated from latest VLC 1.x to VLC 2.0.1
I was very disappointed because simple MP3s which use hardly any CPU at all suddenly "stuttered" i.e. playback would halt like 0,5 seconds before continuing.
So I increased my "file buffer size" to 2000ms.
It seems I am not alonw with that, many people here in the forum complained. Plus, I have a WD raptor drive, how fast should it be? :/

with that new value and after a restart of VLC, I get a different behaviour:
it stutters less often, but each time it stutters, it will hang for 1,5 SECONDS

Plus, I seem to have another issue in addition
when I change the volume while playing an MP3, it takes a LOOOONG time until the volume is actually changed!

I am running latest nightly VLC as of today (hint: If I could copy/paste text from the about box it would be easier to give the actual version number)
"was compiled by buildslave may 1 2012 02:21:36"
running on WinXP SP2 on a Core2Duo E8400 @ 3GHz (no overclocking whatsoever)

if I can diagnose anything, pull traces or something, I'd be happy to do so. I love VLC and it makes me cry that the current release is unusable. Until then, I'll downgrade to 1.0 (again)

All the best from gernoth

[Lotesdelere]

Please can you try some of the options from this post:
viewtopic.php?p=339577#p339577

And report back what has worked for you.


The volume lag is another issue which might be fixed soon (see ticket 5654).

[gernoth]

it seems that graphic equalizer "on" improves the playback a lot
I still have issues after jumping around in a file.
will stick to nightly 2.0.2 now and see what I can reproduce

[gernoth]

OK now I have no pauses but still those cracks, as if there was a decompression error (the way you sometimes hear when the source file is bad - I know it isnt because I've heard that file often)
way to go :/