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

[Stefan Nicolin]

On Wed, 11 Jul 2001 02:09:09 -0500
nick lidakis <nick.lidakis at verizon.net> wrote:

> 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.
> 

I kept an eye on the cpu usage too and it does not ever go across 50%...
While pressing F nothing changes (according to the cpu usage). I'v noticed three vlc processes. Is that normal ?

Stefan