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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lcg" data-source="post: 836475" data-attributes="member: 29606">Thanks for your help.These are exactly my symptoms. If I stop playback and start it again immediately, the video starts right up, with no noticeable delay; if I play a different file and then start the first one again, it seems the cached information (whatever it is) is forgotten and video is delayed once again.I did, however, continue testing yesterday after I wrote this post. I uninstalled Haali and ffdshow and replaced them with LAVfilters (which didn't work too well as I could no longer switch audio tracks in WMP; but it was worth a try). The symptoms were exactly the same, so Haali and ffdshow aren't solely responsible. Also, the delay goes away if I use the Microsoft h.264 decoder, so ffdshow is at least part of the problem; but I really like ffdshow's postprocessing and upscaling, so I'd rather solve the problem and keep ffdshow.That actually pointed me in a good direction. There definitely seems to be a connection: I renamed MePo's MediaInfo.dll so MePo wouldn't find it anymore => no delay. I don't know what functionality I lose when taking the file away from MePo, so probably not a good solution. Replacing it with the latest version I have installed with MediaInfo GUI causes the same delays again. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown    :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" /> An older version (0.7.27 vs. 0.7.35 in MePo's default install) did not help, either.But the strange thing is that the delay only occurs in Moving Pictures and in the TV Series plugin, not in My Videos (which I don't really want to use). So these two must do something different than My Videos. Maybe I can find the time to install Visual Studio on my home computer and have a look at the sources.This might solve my problems in MePo, however I would lose the functionality I use from ffdshow (upscaling and postprocessing) as well as the ability to switch audio streams in WMP. It seems I am caught between a rock and a hard place.What I find curious, though, is that there aren't many reports of this problem. I would have thought that ffdshow is a common codec, since it provides so many things in an integrated package without the need for some codec packs, which break your system in horrible and unknown ways. And I also would have expected both Moving Pictures and TVseries to be popular plugins in MePo installations.Regards,lcg</blockquote>

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