G'day.

So, after upgrading to 8.10, I noticed that video was behaving extremely badly under VLC. I was just watching DX50 coded videos, that worked perfectly fine under 8.04.

I mucked around for a while, and made some headway to solving the problem from switching the VLC output to OpenGL, rather than XVideo (which I think is default). This was still not the best option, but it was much better than the video freezing every few seconds.

I tried many other things, for instance, increasing the cache from 300ms to 5000ms. I was initially playing the video off a DVD - so I decided to copy it to the disk and try. The problem still persisted. This told me that it wasn't a seek issue with my DVD, and it was something more fundamental.

I also noticed a CPU load burst at every position when the video froze. I was inclined to think that this was either an XOrg issue, or a kernel issue. I highly doubted the latter, but it was easier to test that than muck around with XOrg internals. So, I booted 2.6.24-21-generic. To my surprise, I was able to watch videos flawlessly using the XVideo extension as output.

Can other people also verify this for me?