I would appreciate any help or advice on a problem i experience with my system which i have been putting up with because its not really a major one.
I have a problem with video playback. The problem is that whenever i watch a film, tv program using VLC media player the video will stop once during playback. When it stops its as though the video is still playing and what is on screen has stopped briefly because when it starts again it misses a few seconds of video. This usually only happens once in maybe a film lasting 90 mins or tv program lasting 60 mins and so not a major problem but more of an annoyance.
Here is my main PC specs, there are other hard drives as well and a TV card:
Abit IP-35 Pro, iP35 Express, S 775, PCI-E (x16), DDR2 667/800, SATA II, SATA RAID, ATX Motherboard
Intel Core 2 Duo E6850, S775, 3.0 GHz, 1333MHz FSB, Conroe Core, 4MB Cache
4GB 2x(2x1GB) Corsair TwinX XMS2, DDR2 PC2-6400 (800), 240 Pins, Non-ECC Unbuffered, CAS 4-4-4-12, DHX
512MB Gainward 8800GT Bliss Golden Sample, PCI-E 2.0, 1900MHz, GDDR3, GPU 650MHz, 2x Dual Link DVI-I
500 GB Western Digital WD5000AAKS Caviar SE16, SATA II, 7200 rpm, 16MB Cache, 8.9 ms
It could be the codec, I don't use VLC media player so I don't know for sure, but you may be able to use a different codec for the type of video you're watching. Have you noticed if this happens with all types of video? Could also be a buffering issue in VLC, not sure if that can be set manually or not.
It does seem to point to a buffering problem somewhere but not sure if it is hardware or software that is causing it. I never had this problem on my previous machine that was lower spec. I will have a look on the VLC website and see if i can find anything. I guess i should also try playing some videos with Windows Media Player and some different file types as well.
