2 Playback Issues

[gags730]

VLC Output issue - Windows 8.1 - VLC 2.2.4

PROBLEM 1- Grey / White Screen
Main issue and I am completely aggravated!

Okay, I need HELP from the VLC GODS…When watching movies, regardless of the type of movies I get an issue when the screen doesn’t necessarily pixilate but kind of shows the negative of the scene until that scene changes. It’s almost like having the whole screen kind of go whitish or grey. I found an example of what the screen looks like and have attached it ( see bottom of post ). I have had this issue as long as I care to remember….

This can last the entire scene, had it go as long as 20 seconds, or it can suddenly go back to normal in few seconds. It is very rare that it does not happen in some part of any the movie. It will happen completely random at any time in the movie.

If I rewind that part of the movie and watch it again the scene will play normal with no quality issues. This is why I believe it is a software issue. This grey screen does NOT happen with Windows Media Player at all (which I Hate) so I believe there is something I can do in the settings to remedy the issue.

I do not believe it is an issue with a lost frame playing…with the compression whacking out, frames corrupted ect., cause I stated earlier you CAN rewind and it plays fine.

Some observations that may not be fully true/ False either…
I believe it happens more with Action scenes.
I believe it happens more with larger file size videos such a 1080 BR rips vs 700 Meg AVI file.



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Problem 2- 1080 Playback VIDEO literally Skipping - Believe I solved the Issue
IF I DID THIS INCORRECT AND THERE IS A BETTER OR DIFFERENT WAY PLEASE LET ME KNOW!!!

Believe it’s remedied, as watched 3x 1080 movies With NO problems. Just want to make sure what I did will not cause any other issues down the road.
My Second Issue which now seems better due to an adjustment I made. When I download and watch files formatted in 1080 . The scenes would literally skip, audio was fine. I made an adjustment under:
TOOLS > INPUT and CODECS >VIDEO CODECS > FFmpeg
Now on the Right side menu I made a change to
‘Skip the loop filter for H.264 Decoding’ I Set this to ‘ALL’.
The 1080 skipping seems to be gone now and all seems well. Hopefully no other issues….
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MISC INFO
VLC Info : VER: 2.2.4 Weatherwax - June 2016: OS Windows
MY PC Info:
Windows 8 Stripped down—4g Nvidia Card – Drivers UTD w/ best performance, MEM: 4g RAM- … HDD’s- 1x Tera Drive & 500g alt partitioned for data. I use this ONLY for Media, I have nothing running on startup lagging me down so PC runs fine.... Seriously I run it streamlined SO I know I don’t have an issue on my end… But ya never know ...
and like stated earlier, other programs run it fine, VLC is my only issue and tired of dealing with it…. Reaching out for help because I cannot remedy myself…. Thanks So Much Everyone… I really Appreciate It !! This is my favorite player and refuse to use WMP garbage, please help !!!

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Example of PROBLEM 1--- Grey Screen- Output Playback Issue




THANK YOU !!!

[thesandvolcano]

Gonna paste in solution I just posted to here: https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.ph ... 9&start=60

"The previous poster who said this issue is not power management related is wrong. The problem is caused by the AHCI power management feature's, HIPM & DIPM. Specifically, your mechanical hard disk cannot handle these power states as well as your ssd. This is why watching a movie from the ssd works better than mechanical storage using AHCI over SATA. Another poster suggested increasing the file cache which will lessen the phenomena, but HIPM & DIPM will still cause problems. I have known this problem/solution for years and am frankly shocked that this is still an issue in 2016. So much so I have created this account for y'all.

Solution 1: Switch mechanical drive over to IDE mode, if you wish to retain HIPM & DIPM functionality for your ssd.
Solution 2: Use a RamDisk (ImDisk is free) to pre-cache media to RAM.
Solution 3: Download the *.reg files from this site: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/17 ... -dipm.html. Install into registry. The reg file makes HIPM & DIPM options available in Windows 7. Finally, open your advanced power management options and disable HIPM & DIPM under the 'hard disk' section.

I use 'Solution 3' and can confirm it works on my old AMD based rig, and my new x99 Intel - Nvidea rig. If I had known this problem would persist for so long, I would have created an account here years ago. In my opinion the VLC team have been very slow in addressing this issue as there must be a programatic solution, as not all media players are affected as bad by HIPM & DIPM."