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Sporadic video jumping

Postby brendanxx » 17 Oct 2021 15:02

Hi, I'm running Big Sur 11.6 on MacBook Air 2020. I'm using VLC 3.0.16. When playing both mp4 and mkv movies every 7 minutes or so (it varies) the movie jumps (something like missing a few frames). The movies are watchable but it's new and a little annoying. Any advice most appreciated.

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Re: Sporadic video jumping

Postby ePirat » 15 Nov 2021 20:31

Try to open the message window in the background when watching a video where this happens and after it happened, provide the log from the messages window please, else its impossible to know what might be going on as there are so many things that could cause this.

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Re: Sporadic video jumping

Postby brendanxx » 15 Nov 2021 22:30

Thanks - but what exactly is the message window?

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Re: Sporadic video jumping

Postby ePirat » 15 Nov 2021 22:35

You can open it via Window -> Messages. It shows detailed VLC log messages.

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Re: Sporadic video jumping

Postby brendanxx » 16 Nov 2021 09:33

I played a movie and the jerkiness is hardly noticeable, but still there from time to time - anyway here's the messages stuff - perhaps you can see something there.
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main debug: VLC media player - 3.0.16 Vetinari
main debug: Copyright © 1996-2021 the VideoLAN team
main debug: revision 3.0.16-0-g5e70837d8d
main debug: configured with /Users/d-fu/vlc-3.0/extras/package/macosx/../../../configure '--prefix=/Users/d-fu/vlc-3.0/build/vlc_install_dir' '--enable-macosx' '--enable-merge-ffmpeg' '--enable-osx-notifications' '--enable-faad' '--enable-flac' '--enable-theora' '--enable-shout' '--enable-ncurses' '--enable-twolame' '--enable-realrtsp' '--enable-libass' '--enable-macosx-avfoundation' '--disable-skins2' '--disable-xcb' '--disable-caca' '--disable-pulse' '--disable-sdl-image' '--disable-vnc' '--build=x86_64-apple-darwin17' '--host=x86_64-apple-darwin17' '--with-macosx-version-min=10.7' '--with-macosx-sdk=/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk' '--with-breakpad=https://mac.crashes.videolan.org' 'build_alias=x86_64-apple-darwin17' 'host_alias=x86_64-apple-darwin17' 'CC=/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/clang' 'CFLAGS=-g -arch x86_64' 'LDFLAGS=-arch x86_64' 'CXX=/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/clang++' 'CXXFLAGS=-g -arch x86_64' 'OBJC=/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/clang' 'OBJCFLAGS=-g -arch x86_64'


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