Media Player & VLC Player taking ages to seek??

lettuce · 24 Feb 2013 at 20:47

Have recently done a whole system format and install, i have recently started doing some gaming captures and video editing, before i did the system format when i used to watch my videos back in either WMP or VLC player i used to be able to skip to any part of the video clip and the video would resume playing from that point straight away. But now when i skip to a part in the video with either WMP or VLC it take absolutely ages to start resuming the video again, any ideas why im having this problem now, its obviously software related but im not sure what would cause it?

Philtor · 25 Feb 2013 at 01:20

Have you installed the latest drivers for your Chipset? I use DA player these days which is free and works a treat

lettuce · 25 Feb 2013 at 09:14

My mobo chipset you mean?

yashiro · 25 Feb 2013 at 09:37

It's more likely you've changed an encoding setting and are omitting keyframes (or leaving too large a gap between them) which allow you to seek more easily.

Test a video you haven't encoded yourself that used to seek correctly.

lettuce · 25 Feb 2013 at 09:47

Could be that, but I don't remember ever alerting the frequency of key frames before hand. Even VirtualDub seem to struggle playback of 1080p videos now and before was fine

bledd · 25 Feb 2013 at 14:04

Updated graphics card drivers?

lettuce · 10 Mar 2013 at 14:07

Im still getting this problem. If im watch a 1080p video on VLC and i jump to a section of the clip say 5-10 minutes on it takes a good 10-15 seconds to start playing again. An ideas if this could be to a codec issues or a setting to change within VLC. I never had this problem before i did a complete system format.

Philtor · 10 Mar 2013 at 16:29

Use DA Player

khodos · 11 Mar 2013 at 19:35

Same here, depending on the resolution of the file.