Video stops after pausing?

[2mg]

VLC 3.0.11 Vetinari, W7x64.

1. Pause a video
2. Continue playing a few minutes later
3. Video plays for a couple of frames and stops
4. Audio fully continues playing in background

**Simply pressing STOP button and then Continue playback properly resumes video playback.

I'm unsure when did this start occurring.
I haven't changed my hardware or software (and I'm playing files from the same HDD I played for ages now).
I've defragmented the disk, and also ran disk scans, everything is in order.

[Hitchhiker]

Possibly due to a corrupted file somewhere. To fix open vlc and hit Ctrl + P to open prefs and then click the big Reset Preferences at the bottom. Exit and restart vlc.

[2mg]

Possibly due to a corrupted file somewhere. To fix open vlc and hit Ctrl + P to open prefs and then click the big Reset Preferences at the bottom. Exit and restart vlc.

Ironically, I literary installed a copy of fresh Windows 7 yesterday on another disk, and the issue still persists.

[Hitchhiker]

Are you streaming from a site such as youtube for example, or are the files located locally?

[2mg]

Are you streaming from a site such as youtube for example, or are the files located locally?

(and I'm playing files from the same HDD I played for ages now).

I found these in Messages:

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main debug: toggling resume avcodec error: hardware acceleration picture allocation failed main debug: auto hiding mouse cursor main debug: auto hiding mouse cursor main debug: auto hiding mouse cursor main debug: auto hiding mouse cursor main debug: auto hiding mouse cursor main debug: auto hiding mouse cursor main debug: auto hiding mouse cursor main debug: auto hiding mouse cursor main debug: toggling pause main debug: toggling pause main debug: toggling pause mmdevice debug: state changed: 1 avcodec error: avcodec_send_packet critical error main debug: auto hiding mouse cursor main debug: auto hiding mouse cursor

I'm using GTX1060 and 3770k, never had an issue playing anything until recently, maybe NVidia's driver update changed something?

[Hitchhiker]

It's possible. What version are the Nvidia drivers?

Could you please download this analytical application and then post the info here.

[2mg]

It's possible. What version are the Nvidia drivers?

Could you please download this analytical application and then post the info here.

457.09 drivers. I can post MediaInfo info, but note that this happens not just on this video:

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General Unique ID : 218894992905525066002590917072943939004 (0xA4ADA464075EDF09E7DE7D4479917DBC) Complete name : C:\video.mkv Format : Matroska Format version : Version 4 File size : 302 MiB Duration : 58 min 56 s Overall bit rate : 717 kb/s Encoded date : UTC 2020-03-27 11:59:29 Writing application : mkvmerge v44.0.0 ('Domino') 64-bit Writing library : libebml v1.3.10 + libmatroska v1.5.2 Video ID : 1 Format : HEVC Format/Info : High Efficiency Video Coding Format profile : Main@L3.1@Main Codec ID : V_MPEGH/ISO/HEVC Duration : 58 min 55 s Bit rate : 651 kb/s Width : 1 280 pixels Height : 720 pixels Display aspect ratio : 16:9 Frame rate mode : Constant Frame rate : 23.976 (24000/1001) FPS Color space : YUV Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0 Bit depth : 8 bits Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.029 Stream size : 274 MiB (91%) Default : Yes Forced : No Color range : Limited Color primaries : BT.709 Transfer characteristics : BT.709 Matrix coefficients : BT.709 Audio ID : 2 Format : AAC LC SBR Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec Low Complexity with Spectral Band Replication Commercial name : HE-AAC Format settings : Explicit Codec ID : A_AAC-2 Duration : 58 min 56 s Bit rate : 64.0 kb/s Channel(s) : 2 channels Channel layout : L R Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz Frame rate : 23.438 FPS (2048 SPF) Compression mode : Lossy Delay relative to video : -4 ms Stream size : 27.0 MiB (9%) Default : Yes Forced : No Text #1 ID : 3 Format : UTF-8 Codec ID : S_TEXT/UTF8 Codec ID/Info : UTF-8 Plain Text Duration : 55 min 23 s Bit rate : 66 b/s Count of elements : 842 Stream size : 27.1 KiB (0%) Default : Yes Forced : No Text #2 ID : 4 Format : UTF-8 Codec ID : S_TEXT/UTF8 Codec ID/Info : UTF-8 Plain Text Duration : 57 min 23 s Bit rate : 97 b/s Count of elements : 815 Stream size : 40.9 KiB (0%) Default : No Forced : No

[Hitchhiker]

Try changing the output module. See this thread: https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=155421

[2mg]

Try changing the output module. See this thread: https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=155421

Output module or HW acceleration?

[Hitchhiker]

The latter.

[2mg]

The latter.

So far it seems that disabling acceleration works without issues. I'll try DXVA and D3D11 again, but this puzzles me, as I said, nothing hw/sw has changed here for a good few years except VLC updates and driver changes.

Oddly enough, I hoped a fresh Windows installation would help, but issue still persists.

[johnnysh]

Been having same issue with VLC playing DVD images

Pauses, skips stutters, VLC is dreadful

still haven't found a solution yet, just put it down to VLC being buggy

[2mg]

Been having same issue with VLC playing DVD images

Pauses, skips stutters, VLC is dreadful

still haven't found a solution yet, just put it down to VLC being buggy

I actually don't have stutters and pauses, I pause manually, and have no more video (just few frames and it stops) after resuming.

[Hitchhiker]

A note from the Nvidia site regarding Windows 7. I can't link to the page exactly, but here's a relevant screenshot.


(click to enlarge)

Here's the link to the release notes.

Before you installed those drivers did you uninstall the old ones first and if so, how did you perform that step?

Whenever I update Intel or Nvidia drivers I always use this uninstaller and run it in Safe Mode.

[2mg]

A note from the Nvidia site regarding Windows 7. I can't link to the page exactly, but here's a relevant screenshot.


(click to enlarge)

Here's the link to the release notes.

Before you installed those drivers did you uninstall the old ones first and if so, how did you perform that step?

Whenever I update Intel or Nvidia drivers I always use this uninstaller and run it in Safe Mode.

Yes I can get SHA-2 updates and drivers. I always upgraded but checked perform clean install with NVidia, used DDU in some extreme cases. But this is happening on fresh Windows, so... Trying a day or two with DXVA to see how it goes.

[Hitchhiker]

Where did the .mkv file come from? The reason I'm asking is because I don't have a video with that file type on my system and therefore can't test it to see if the same thing happens. Pausing an .mp4 file and then continuing after a couple of minutes works normally.

[2mg]

Where did the .mkv file come from? The reason I'm asking is because I don't have a video with that file type on my system and therefore can't test it to see if the same thing happens. Pausing an .mp4 file and then continuing after a couple of minutes works normally.

Thing is, it's not just that one file. Some seem to work (pause/resume) with HW acceleration properly. Some just have few pixelated/glitchy frames and resume. And a rare few like this one completely won't play video after resuming.

And not a single one has an issue without HW acceleration.

[truerock]

I'm having the exact same problem.