3.0.8 Dropping frames on one video....for now

[Necronomicon]

Recently I installed W10 (long story why I moved recently from W7 to W10) setted up everything as in my previous W7 and installed VLC 3.0.8.

For now I played mkv videos and everything is fine.

Yesterday I got myself a hold of one domestic movie in mp4 container and it started to drop frames (in settings I always disable frame dropping and late frames). Even audio is around 200ms faster than video. Checked with errors verbosity 2, and it was showing only that it was dropping frames.

Started same file in Windows player and it works fine.

Tested with hardware output option DX11, DX9, OpenGL, Automatic, nothing worked. Increased bufering and so on, but nothing.

I installed back 2.2.4 VLC (which I had in W7) and same file works normally.

This is file info from MediaInfo:

Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L5
Format settings : CABAC / 5 Ref Frames
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, Reference frames : 5 frames
Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration : 1 h 36 min
Bit rate : 2 589 kb/s
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 964 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 1.992
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 59.940 (59940/1000) FPS
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.023
Stream size : 1.75 GiB (94%)
Default : Yes
Forced : No
Color range : Limited
Color primaries : BT.601 NTSC
Transfer characteristics : BT.470 System M
Matrix coefficients : BT.601

Audio
ID : 2
Format : AAC LC
Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec Low Complexity
Codec ID : A_AAC-2
Duration : 1 h 36 min
Bit rate : 161 kb/s
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel layout : L R
Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz
Frame rate : 46.875 FPS (1024 SPF)
Compression mode : Lossy
Delay relative to video : -1 s 107 ms
Stream size : 111 MiB (6%)
Default : Yes
Forced : No

Text
ID : 3
Format : UTF-8
Codec ID : S_TEXT/UTF8
Codec ID/Info : UTF-8 Plain Text
Duration : 14 s 0 ms
Bit rate : 24 b/s
Count of elements : 1
Stream size : 43.0 Bytes (0%)
Title : SrbSubs
Language : Serbian
Default : Yes
Forced : No

[mightyglydd]

https://forum.videolan.org/

[Necronomicon]

Yep, totally forgot. F***, Whole day installing and setting up W10 can mess with your brain

Please delete topic.

[mightyglydd]

[LIMPET235]

Hi Necronomicon,
I had a similar problem with VLC v3.0.8.

Not too sure if it was down to the video content (which I've been D/L'ing for years from a security site) or that version of VLC.

I un-installed it & installed an older version that I always keep handy.

Seems to work a tad better but I suspect the new codecs that they installed with the new version.
Dunno.

[mightyglydd]

FIW, Media Player Classic - BE, nice player, got a vid link/file where this happens with VLC?

[LIMPET235]

Hi MG,
I should've added a tad more...
That security video (any TWiT.TV or Security Now video), plays just fine with the volume not going up 'n' down in any other player.
WMP/MPC etc...
It just does it in VLC v3.0.8.

(NB: It's not too bad but a few episodes ago, it actually crashed the VLC player. Stopped it dead as after nearly blowing the spks up...
I had to go into Realtek HD Audio Manager in Control panel & check/test things out. Got it functioning O.K.)

Here's 2 to check...
> https://twit.tv/shows/the-tech-guy/epis ... tart=false
> https://twit.tv/shows/security-now/epis ... tart=false

I only ever D/L the "SD Video Small" versions & never had any problems with them for years.

I thought it might have been the video content/type or maybe "they" changed the way or their equipment, recorded it.
Seems strange that it just suddenly started about 3 or 4 weeks ago.
"A virus attack" possibly?
Dunno.