Reduced frame-rate issue with VLDSVideoPlayer

[Ted Wagner]

I am experiencing an unusual issue using TVLDSVideoPlayer to play back .MTS files (ffdshow codec) that are 1920x1080, 29fps. (In VLC, the video codec indicated is "H264 - MPEG-4 AVC (part10) (h264)". I would very much like to know how to get both players to use the same decoder, but that question's in another thread already .)

In my primary application, my player's output is connected to three TVLImageDisplay instances. Each of these are on different forms, and each displayed on their own monitor, two of them full-screen. When I play the .MTS video (which I can make available to anyone who wants to experiment with it) in this application, it's as though the frame rate is reduced to ~18 per second. Some people don't notice it, but it's clear to the experienced eye.

I have another application that I use for testing VL with new codecs and it consists only of a TVLDSVideoPlayer and (one) TVLImageDisplay. When I play the same video with this application, it looks beautiful and flawless.

Has anyone else seen this kind of issue from connecting more than one output to a TVLDSVideoPlayer?