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[SOLVED] ffmpeg decoder error: more than 5 seconds of late video -> dropping frame (computer too slow ?)

Error added: 2006-10-26T13:16:02Z

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Answer 578 (100.0% helpful)

It means that your computer does not operate fast enough to adequately process the video. Some videos are very detailed and have very high resolution. Think of it this way: if you are looking at a giant painting that only consists of one giant black dot, it doesn\'t take you very long to process all of the information and \"see\" the black dot. But if you\'re looking at a giant canvas that depicts in great detail, say, the storming of the beaches at Normandy, it\'s going to take you quite a long time to look at the painting and really \"see\" everything that\'s going on. In fact, you might stare at the painting for hours and suddenly notice that there\'s a dog in the lower left-hand corner that you hadn\'t seen before.

This is very, VERY roughly the problem that\'s going on here. Except it\'s your computer that\'s trying to \"look\" at the painting, not you. If your computer is trying to \"look\" at a very simple painting that doesn\'t have many colors and isn\'t very detailed, it won\'t take the computer long to \"see\" it and project it onto your computer screen. But if the video is very highly detailed and contains millions and millions of colors, the computer is going to take much, much longer to \"see\" everything and project it to you. 

Now, take into account that your computer has to \"see\" hundreds of these paintings every minute to process the video that you\'re watching. And at the same time, it also has to give you all of the audio portions of the video. That\'s a lot to do at once. So when it takes the computer a really long time to \"see\" any individual painting, it\'s going to miss a few along the way, simply because it\'s not fast enough. When this happens you get \"dropped\" frames (i.e. paintings)--the computer simply doesn\'t process as many paintings every second in an effort to keep up. So you might only get to see, say, twelve paintings per second, whereas a normal video has thirty. When this happens your video looks very jumpy and choppy.

Hope that helped.
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Answer 577 (50.0% helpful)

It means that your computer does not operate fast enough to adequately process the video. Some videos are very detailed and have very high resolution. Think of it this way: if you are looking at a giant painting that only consists of one giant black dot, it doesn\'t take you very long to process all of the information and \"see\" the black dot. But if you\'re looking at a giant canvas that depicts in great detail, say, the storming of the beaches at Normandy, it\'s going to take you quite a long time to look at the painting and really \"see\" everything that\'s going on. In fact, you might stare at the painting for hours and suddenly notice that there\'s a dog in the lower left-hand corner that you hadn\'t seen before.

This is very, VERY roughly the problem that\'s going on here. Except it\'s your computer that\'s trying to \"look\" at the painting, not you. If your computer is trying to \"look\" at a very simple painting that doesn\'t have many colors and isn\'t very detailed, it won\'t take the computer long to \"see\" it and project it onto your computer screen. But if the video is very highly detailed and contains millions and millions of colors, the computer is going to take much, much longer to \"see\" everything and project it to you. 

Now, take into account that your computer has to \"see\" hundreds of these paintings every minute to process the video that you\'re watching. And at the same time, it also has to give you all of the audio portions of the video. That\'s a lot to do at once. So when it takes the computer a really long time to \"see\" any individual painting, it\'s going to miss a few along the way, simply because it\'s not fast enough. When this happens you get \"dropped\" frames (i.e. paintings)--the computer simply doesn\'t process as many paintings every second in an effort to keep up. So you might only get to see, say, twelve paintings per second, whereas a normal video has thirty. When this happens your video looks very jumpy and choppy.

Hope that helped.
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Answer 1280 (50.0% helpful)

Computer too slow is very general term. It can also refer to the speed of your hard disk. If this is the case you can probably solve it by enlarging the VLC cache size used for playback. This can be done by: 
*go to Tools->Preferences
*show settings All
*double click Input / Codecs
*double click Access Modules 
*select File and increase the cache size. 
*save and restart vlc 
Success
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Answer 214 (0.0% helpful)

This means that u r teh ghey
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Answer 1055 (0.0% helpful)

You will probably need to begin by eating some ass.  Generally, extending your tongue up into the confines of the rectal orifice until you taste corn should suffice.
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Answer 1244 (0.0% helpful)

computer too slow ? That\'s an other way to say that your algorithm sucks
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Answer 737 (0.0% helpful)

I dont think that answer helped at all!!
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