[GooseK]

While watching any video file, about every ten minutes or so the video will freeze for 1 to 2 seconds, and then do a fast-forward sort of catch-up action and go on playing. The audio plays perfectly smoothly and normally throughout, it's only video that freezes.

It's a minor glitch, but especially annoying because I don't understand it.

- Only happens in XBMC, not in VLC
- Asus F50S laptop, Win7-64, Nvidia GeForce GT 120M, driver ver. 9.18.13.2049, output via HDMI to TV
- Files streaming from a Samba server over 100baseT ethernet, through a Linksys WRT54Gv2 router with DD-WRT, also connected via ethernet (server is more than capable of keeping up with a single 100baseT line)
- Happens consistently with any video file, regardless of size or type

My guess is there's a setting in XBMC that will fix this - anyone have any ideas?

[GooseK]

Ah, I'm using fake fullscreen, or fullscreen in a window. (The TV, a slightly older Magnavox, doesn't allow any overscan settings - after trying lots of different configs and adjustments, the best option was to set a custom resolution for the fullscreen window that matches the desktop resolution. This way, minimizing XBMC to switch to the desktop or other applications is smooth.)

Looks like turning off "Vertical blank sync" resolves this issue.

[GooseK]

I spoke too soon - turning off vertical blank sync does NOT resolve this... hoping someone has some other ideas to try...

[hoopsdavis]

check your onscreen video settings (while watching video select the "ok" button on remote or "enter" key on keyboard) and be sure you have "Deinterlace Video" set to Auto and "Deinterlace Select" set to Auto Select and