VLC

I no longer use it as my primary movie player, but still often use it when in a hurry. My primary objection to it is that when playing one of my encoded video files, that it always has moments when the picture becomes very distorted. This will clear very quickly, but is annoying none the less.

If I understand, VLC has it's own codec, which makes me suspect that is the source of the problem, but the distortion will occur, regardless of the format of the video files being played. Therefore, I'm less certain that this issue is rooted in the codec.

Does anyone understand exactly what the cause of this is, or how to fix it?

kado897 said:

This happens to me also but only on wmv files. mp4 and avi are fine. You can check "use system codecs" in preferences and see if that helps.

No, I just tested that twice, and both times it caused the entire system to freeze when selecting a movie.

karlsnooks said:

Is turning off your anti-virus software while using VLC an option?

Not really.

The problem is not caused by my firewall/AV. I shut it off and the problem continued.

Yes, I'm running 1.1.10. The only improvement that I can see so far, is that it doesn't cause the videos to stall momentarily at the very beginning, like 1.1.7 did.