Random video freeze when watching videos?

[nosebreaker]

Sound continues fine, but video freezes for about 5 seconds every 10min or so.  When I first hooked this up there was no problem.  Any ideas?  The system is plenty fast enough, it doesn't matter what bitrate the video is, even tiny videos have this problem.

[colinjones]

perhaps monitor the xine device log whilst playing. also confirm that the aren't a common codec

[cirion]

Are you running 32bit or 64bit?

If you have this problem on a md, change it to 32bit and rebuild.
I have the same problem on any MD running 64bit.

[nosebreaker]

This is 32-bit.

These are on videos that were working fine last week, and now they have this problem.  I wonder if it has something to do with the sound driver, as I noticed if the machine is left on for several days the sound sometimes will skip constantly, and I have to reboot the core.  When I first built the system it didn't have this problem (that I am aware of).

I'll check those logs, any other ideas if that doesn't bear fruit?

[colinjones]

If it wasn't happening before, my reaction would be to rebuild. Doesn't take long, less agonising.

[nosebreaker]

I found the problem, the answer was very simple.  I wasn't watching the same videos, and I thought I was.  Those video files have issues, others work fine.