Re: DVD and *.flv playback is jerky on VLC
On Tue, 03 Apr 2012 16:19:35 +0100
AG <computing.account@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 28/03/12 13:25, Celejar wrote:
> > On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 21:43:19 +1100
> > Scott Ferguson<scott.ferguson.debian.user@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On 28/03/12 21:11, AG wrote:
> >>> Hi
> >>>
> >>> I've noticed, using Debian stable, that DVD and *.flv
> >> flv in unindexed, so can be a problem in itself.
> >>
> >>> playback tends to
> >>> be jerky. That is, the motion of the actors, etc., seems to jump in
> >>> short but noticeable ways, as if the playback is dropping several frames
> >>> and picking it up again. The sound track is fine, no jumps, but the
> >>> movement on screen does seem to be a little jerky. It doesn't seem to
> >>> happen on other media players, or at least isn't as noticeable.
...
> I've done a few tests now and this is what I've found:
>
> (1) As far as I can make out, only VLC seems to have this problem
> (2) Opening VLC and running ctrl+m as suggested yields the following
> output with verbosity level set at 2 (this is just a small sample):
>
> xcb_xvdebug: display is visible
>
> mainwarning: late picture skipped (27445 > -45)
...
> mainwarning: resampling stopped after 14417235 usec (drift: 37)
>
>
> (3) This problem seems to occur for all DVDs and downloaded *.flv videos
>
> So, does this help debug the issue? What settings am I looking at tweaking?
Don't know - here's a suggestion:
http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?t=33246
Celejar
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