slow startup of VLC when playing .avi files

[bakdai]

For some reason lately, whenever I click on a .avi and have
VLC start up and run, there is a like a hesitation before anything plays. Then when the file does start playing, it's like 9 seconds already into the file. This doesn't happen if you close the file but keep VLC open and then click on the file again. Not that I can't live with doing that, it's just supremely annoying. Any ideas?

I'm running VLC .7.1.a on the latest version of mac os x on my powerbook G4 1 Ghz 17".

[Jack]

im getting the same exact problem, any solution?

[Tseug]

Anyone else has this problem on macintosh? i would love to solve it too.

[The DJ]

VLC does a lot of startup stuff. but it does this in different threads etc. So it starts playing while some other parts of VLC might not be ready/loaded. therefore you miss some secs. Personally i don't consider this to be a big problem. Just keep VLC open

Try resetiing your preferences, it looks like you have option set which aggrevates this behaviour, since this doesn't bother me much on my G4/400 unless i try to play really really really high res movies.

[Guest]

Hi DJ,

I tried reseting my preferences already, following another thread i've read on the same subject but it didnt change anything.

I'm a powerbook G4 1Ghz with 1GB of ram, so it shouldn't take 7 seconds before the movie starts playing. When i double click on my avi, VLC opens quickly, but everything freezes for 6-7 seconds, except for my mouse, then the movie starts playing.

[Jarde]

I posted earlier about month ago that I have same problem with winxp..
That problem only exist with my primary computer.. my second one (also with winxp) doesn`t have this problem.. I have tested vlc with longhorn with my primary computer and I have no problems with it.. I know that longhorn
in alpha stage but I like testing lot of software and then trowing it way.. Using latest vlc..

[Guest]

I'm a powerbook G4 1Ghz with 1GB of ram, so it shouldn't take 7 seconds before the movie starts playing. When i double click on my avi, VLC opens quickly, but everything freezes for 6-7 seconds, except for my mouse, then the movie starts playing.

Same here on a Titanium PowerBook G4 867MHz 1GB.
On the eMac 800MHz 768MB and the iBook G4 1GHz 768MB of my friends VLC runs perfectly.
All Macs are running OS X 10.3.4.

Does this problem only exist on PowerBooks?

shoRm

[Guest]

I'm a powerbook G4 1Ghz with 1GB of ram, so it shouldn't take 7 seconds before the movie starts playing. When i double click on my avi, VLC opens quickly, but everything freezes for 6-7 seconds, except for my mouse, then the movie starts playing.

Same here on a Titanium PowerBook G4 867MHz 1GB.
On the eMac 800MHz 768MB and the iBook G4 1GHz 768MB of my friends VLC runs perfectly.
All Macs are running OS X 10.3.4.

Does this problem only exist on PowerBooks?

shoRm

Yesterday the friend with the iBook updated his Final Cut Pro 4 to Final Cut Pro HD 4.5.
Now he has the same problems with VLC.

I've also Final Cut Pro HD 4.5 installed on my PowerBook.
Is Final Cut HD the reason of our problems?!

shoRm

[The DJ]

There is one thing of importance here.

when you start MPEG4 (divx) and you loose the first secs of playback (like often happens when the application isn't open yet) then it takes MPEG-4 again a couple of seconds to recover.