VLC - Problem with Playback ...

[phunK]

I recently bought iMac 21'' and I am still in adaptation phase..
I am using VLC player for playing .avi and .mkv files. I never installed any codecs or something like that... I only DLed VLC player...
I have noticed that in some of the sequences (like scenes with a few colours - dark night / open sea, or credits in the beginning of the movie, especially when it comes to animations...) movie is always cutting during the playback.. It's never happening except in these situations.
I ignored this problem in the beginning but now I thought someone could help me with it ...
I hope someone will understand what I am trying to say.

Thanx in Advance.

 

[Eidorian]

I thought this was going to be a subtitle situation in VLC.

Have you given Perian for Quicktime a spin yet? It's strange that you're having playback issues issues in those situations. Can you give more information on the specifications of your Mac?

 

[arjen92]

library

You said you were new on the iMac. So was I, and I couldn't find the library to install the component. So if you've difficults installing the component "perian" here are some first instructions were to find the library (cause I couldn't find, maybe you did). Open finder, go to you local harddisk (with the os on it), so not a map but the hard disk, most likely called: macintosh HD. In there you'll find a map called library. The rest of the instructions will come with the download.

 

[phunK]

I have installed and updated Perian, but I still have the same problem...
I don't think my config has anything to do with this problem but here it is:
Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier: iMac8,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.66 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 6 MB
Memory: 2 GB
Bus Speed: 1.07 GHz

When I'm playing movie, for example - During the opening credits when you have only two colours (eg. black background and white letters), I get this "cutting" problems.. If the name of the movie or an actor should go slowly over the screen - It freezes in one moment and continue from the different point of screen, skipping less than a second..