Hey BS-player wizards,
I am also finding this issue with the latest release. I haven't yet tried the downgrade to 2.5.6 but have found that if I stretch the movie window to the same size that the full-screen takes, I don't see the issue.
For me, it behaves somewhat along the lines that the movie stutters, repeating approx. the last second for maybe 10-20 seconds at a time. The player"catches up" and plays well for a period of time and then may do this again.
Movie specs:
X264 MKV
System specs:
Windows 7 64bit
Intel Core 2 Duo (E6850)
XFX Geforce GT 8800
I've read somewhere that it may be an issue with the MKV specification, but I don't want to throw buzz words about stuff that I don't fully know how it works. The indication was to read:
Compressed Headers | Matroska
and download an mkv clean package.
HTH.
>>> Quick update, full specs for a movie that has the same problems. Apologies for the unnecessary parts.
General
Unique ID : ...
Complete name : ...mkv
Format : Matroska
File size : 1.09 GiB
Duration : 42mn 59s
Overall bit rate : 3 638 Kbps
Encoded date : UTC 2011-04-19 xx:xx:xx
Writing application : mkvmerge v3.0.0 (...) built on Apr 19 2010 11:58:49
Writing library : libebml v0.7.7 + libmatroska v0.8.1
Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L4.1
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 8 frames
Format settings, GOP : M=6, N=25
Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration : 42mn 59s
Bit rate : 3 188 Kbps
Width : 1 280 pixels
Height : 720 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.144
Stream size : 959 MiB (86%)
Writing library : x264 core 104 r1688 0b36c6d
Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=8 / deblock=1:-2:-2 / analyse=0x3:0x113 / me=umh / subme=9 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.00:0.00 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=1 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=0 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=12 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / interlaced=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=5 / b_pyramid=2 / b_adapt=1 / b_bias=0 / direct=3 / weightb=1 / open_gop=0 / weightp=2 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=23 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc_lookahead=40 / rc=2pass / mbtree=1 / bitrate=3188 / ratetol=1.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=10 / qpmax=51 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / ip_ratio=1.40 / aq=1:1.00
Language : English
Audio
ID : 2
Format : AC-3
Format/Info : Audio Coding 3
Mode extension : CM (complete main)
Codec ID : A_AC3
Duration : 42mn 59s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 448 Kbps
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 138 MiB (12%)