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Re: VLC will lag when reading local videos, whatever the codec



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Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> writes:

> Does this happen if you play the videos with another media player (Totem, 
> Xine, MPlayer, etc...)?
Yes. Both take some time to go further in the video. I sometimes have
to wait ~5 secs. to get the video start at the asked time, whatever
the player: Totem, MPlayer.

>> It does not only happen with Матрёшка files (.mkv). (I here test if Gnus
>> supports cyrillic out-of-the-box.)
>
> Test for cyrilic characters has been passed successfully :-)
>
>> Is it normal? 
>
> No.

>
>> Does it happen often with videos? 
>
> No, but I guess it would depend on many factors, i.e., good hardware 
> (graphic card chipset) is required to avoid video jumps, lags or
> pauses.
It should not be the hardware, as my graphic card works perfectly
under other circumstances. The CPU is also ~0% when testing, so not
this too. Same for HDDs.

> Also, the transmission method is important. Playing HD video files over 
> the network (remotely by Internet or locally by means of samba or NFS) it 
> could also affect. Moreover, playing the video files "wirelessly", can 
> harden the situation.
Unfortunately, these are ~50 M videos, sometimes even without any
sound, and their quality is not HD, sure. They are read _locally_ so
from my local hdd to my screen: no network.

>> What would it be due to?
>
> Many causes. But if the file plays fine with another player, you can 
> blame VLC :-)
I suspect the codecs are problematic. But why would they be so?
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Merciadri Luca
See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/
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We are all geniuses up to the age of ten. (Aldous Huxley)
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