Video Loop Skips (Not Seamless)

[donthompson]

Hi, all.

New to the forum here, so I'll be brief. I've looked under the hood of VLC in every way I know how and cannot figure out what combination of settings will allow a short (in this case 30 second) video file loop seamlessly. In every configuration I've tried it either stutters a little (3-5 dropped frames at the end of the file), or a lot (10-15 frames, with black in between).

Microsoft's Movie's and TV app, poor through it is, loops the same file without any trouble at all.

I've seen this question asked on the forum in a couple different ways, but the question has either been ignored, or the answer not applicable.

Can anyone please help?

Thanks,
Don

[donthompson]

Problem still unsolved over here. Please jump in if you have any idea how to create a clean, seamless loop through VLC.

[donthompson]

I've added my comments to Trac ticket #549. Apparently this has been an open issue on VLC for 13 years.

https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/549

If someone knows different, please let me know.

[unidan]

Hi, it's currently work in progress, planned for the 4.0 release and almost working in every cases. You can follow this on the mailing list currently

[ali4s]

I am still experiencing this issue on VLC 4.0 (vlc/nightly-win64/20210506). The screen goes black inbetween each loop.

[blobert]

I managed to fix the micro-hang between playlist changes and looping all most entirely by reducing the value in File caching (ms)

• Preferences > All > Input / Codecs > Advanced > File caching (ms)
• The default value is 1000ms, I changed mine to 300ms.

Your mileage may vary, I found that the lower the number the less smooth the video would be, but the higher the number the longer the pause would be between loops. I also assume higher definition videos would need more caching.

Might not solve your issue, but hopefully this helps someone.

(VLC 3.0.14, Win10)