Talk:VideoLAN Player
video time seek crashing
Did you try with temporal audio stretching disabled in the audio preferences?
The problem appears to be a bug in the default demuxer.
The solution is to change the default demuxer to the Avformat demuxer.
Here's how:
Menu Tools -> Preferences >
... -> Click radio button to Show Settings = ALL instead of SIMPLE
... -> Input/Codecs > Demuxers >
at very bottom of drop down list:
... -> Avformat Demuxer > Save, exit and restart VLC
This should solve the problem.
Credit to Jean-Francois and Lotesdelere on the VideoLan forum. http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=98381&start=80 Unfortunately, their correct solution is buried at the bottom of 5 pages of responses that don't work... hopefully this archives the solution so that it is easier to find in future.
Turning on Debug Messages in VLC:
Go to: Tools > Messages > Increase verbosity from 0 to 2
Then play the video.
If there are problems, you should see error desc
(enabling fast seek in VLC doesn't help at all).
Run them through mkvmerge and select the video part in the top list, then down the bottom half click the "extra options" tab and make sure "compression" is set to none.
Re-merging through mkvmerge takes only a few minutes and removing the header compression can fix most errors like seek errors.
The solution is to enable 'Dummy Elements' in VLC's advanced settings for the Matroska demuxer. To temporarly enable that option, --mkv-use-dummy can be used on the VLC command line.
SOLUTION: http://tehparadox.com/forum/f28/mkv-time-seek-problems-4914856/
