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andyle2k
1st February 2005, 12:46
i gotta say that after trying VLC nobody can deny thats it's the most powerful and verbose media player out there... only one problem. it screws up when playing AVCs with b frames. anybody got any luck with it working?
ivan_alias
1st February 2005, 12:49
Not me,same problem, it's frustating.

VLC is a very good tool, but full of bugs, I think it's suffering from trying to be too many things.
stephanV
1st February 2005, 12:51
its not a bug, but a missing feature :p
celtic_druid
1st February 2005, 13:15
Reason would be that libavcodec needs updating in it. You could try mplayer in the meantime.
iapir
1st February 2005, 13:16
Did you biuld VLC yourself or use a nightly build ? Maybe this build doesn't contain the latest FFMPEG as used in FFDShow ?
The Shemeta
1st February 2005, 13:18
i think latest version plays AVC fine with b-frames, give it a try:

http://vthr.via.ecp.fr/~videolan/build/win32/vlc-win32-200502010324.zip
gotaserena
1st February 2005, 13:26
libavcodec is parked at version 4738 for some weeks now. It must be a question of time before vlc and just about every free tool used for video encoding gets updated as well.
kurt
1st February 2005, 13:39
Originally posted by The Shemeta
i think latest version plays AVC fine with b-frames, give it a try:

http://vthr.via.ecp.fr/~videolan/build/win32/vlc-win32-200502010324.zip

not on my machine ... i tried this file (and others):
Originally posted by JohnV
Here's a clip with a bit newer filters using 3-bframes and fixed deblocking -2 with extra quality and all tools enabled.
http://morbo.org/nero/sp2tr_b3_deblock-2.mp4
bond
1st February 2005, 13:50
latest nightly handles avc b-frames in .mp4 fine here

Originally posted by andyle2k
only one problem. it screws up when playing AVCs with b frameswhat does "screw up" mean?

moved to player forum
andyle2k
2nd February 2005, 04:00
i have the latest nightly build 20050201 and the playback is fine now but then another problem arises... memory useage, vlc uses 340MB of my memory and that is definately overkill MPC uses >60MB for the same file!
Elias
2nd February 2005, 23:00
Originally posted by andyle2k
i have the latest nightly build 20050201 and the playback is fine now but then another problem arises... memory useage, vlc uses 340MB of my memory and that is definately overkill MPC uses >60MB for the same file! Checked for Virus or something like that? I seriously doubt that this is because of VLC.