VLC is not seeking XVID files

[blueox]

Hi all. I am watching this forum which helped me a lot solving many kinds of troubles with players or codecs or editing,
and I thank you all for that, so I had to subscribe as I believe I can help with my knowledge on various video stuff,
but right now I'm having a problem with of XVID file that VLC for Android or MX Player won't seek or jump to a specific time or resume from the last point.

The above software have not this issue when playing other file types.

I'm suspecting an index problem but maybe is just codecs?

[jagabo]

You need to rebuild the keyframe index. Try DivFix.

[blueox]

Thank you, it found out 1 error but hasn't solve the issue with VLC.
However MX Player seeks and resumes to last played second normally.

[jman98]

It may be an unfixed bug in VLC. They also have a longstanding bug in seeking in MPEG-1 files from VCD where it will crash VLC if you try to do that and it's been broken for years and never fixed.

[blueox]

Thank you all for your answers!

What I haven't tell you is that the VLC player is playing the video file from a media server over WiFi.
VLC is playing flawlessly with only problem the resume, seek to and jump to time.
MX Player is playing perfect with resume and seek to or jump to.

However if you happen to discover a solution for the VLC i.e. beta version,
please come back here, as it is really annoying.

[jagabo]

Copy the file to the computer running VLC and play it locally. Still no seek?

[blueox]

Playing files on VLC in PC is problem-free. Except of course the increase/decrease of speed of audio (even if stretching is disabled).
VLC for Android is the problem.

[jagabo]

Copy the file to the Android device and play it locally with VLC. Still no seek? That is, eliminate possible network or server problems. The Android version of VLC is still in beta so problems aren't unexpected.

Try remuxing with VirtualDub or AviDemux.

[blueox]

When playing the video from the SDcard, the following happen.
- Seek from the bar will work but sound is not synchronizing with picture (is lagging for 1-2 seconds. Sound is faster but picture lags).
- Resume is working perfectly.
- Jump to time is working perfectly without lags.
- The video is playing but picture looses frames.
- When hardware acceleration is selected, video is showing a green picture (no movie at all) but sound plays normally.

I'm wondering why those VLC guys are not fixing these issues, I'm sure it is a piece of cake for them to fix.
Will try to remux though and get back again.

[jagabo]

Try enabling Fast Seek. It's in the Input/Codecs settings.