Choppy dvd playback+xvideo gets better by pressing twice "F"

[nick lidakis]

Stefan Nicolin wrote:

> Hi
>
> Firt congratulation for vlc, it works great (almost :)
> I have a strange problem with vlc here. When playing DVD with xvideo output the playback gets jerky after
> some time. But wehn pressing the key F twice (switching from fullscreen back, and again to fullscreen) the
> playback is ok for the next minutes. First I thought it may be a drive speed problem (master udma 66
> hardisk and the dvd drive are on the same ide bus). As it happens all again, and the playback is very good
> after using the F trick, it might not be a speed problem.
> Vlc ist at 0.2.80
> Im running slackware 8.0 with Xfree86 4.1.0 and the nvidia binary driver 1-0.1251
>
> Any help would be apreciated
> Stefan

I had the same problem. With a Grellm monitor on the side I could see the cpu usage slowly start to creep up,
sometimes above 75%. Pressing F once to go into window mode, then F again to go fullscreen will drop the cpu
usage to about 2-3%. I posted a message here, but recieved no response.