Fix

Fix Choppy 4K Videos on VLC

Vincent Seow

Aug 27, 2019 • 1 min read

Just the other day, I tried playing some 2160p sample files and noticed occasional stuttering during playback. This was rather odd since the player is automatically GPU accelerated by default, so lack of computing problem wasn't the case.

It looks like depending on the encoding of the video file, you may need to allocate more resources to better facilitate this. You can fix this by going under:

Tools > Preferences
Toggle "Show settings" to "All" in the bottom left
Enter "ffmpeg" in the search on the top left
Select "FFmpeg" under "Input / Codecs" > "Video codecs"
On the right, under the "Decoding" section, increase "Threads" to an higher and available number (i.e. 4 - assuming you have a dual core CPU which should have two threads for each core)