can't play higher bitrate 4k or 1080 video, even with new fast computer

[Glen_S]

I purchased a phantom 4 recently, and when I tried to watch the video files from it recorded in 4K 3840×2160 in VLC it was unwatchable. So I switched to 1080-60p and it was pretty well the same result. I would have to convert the files with pavtube to watch them. I could play gopro 1080-60 files no problems. At the time I had my older Dell i7 with 1GB graphics card which was getting long in the tooth so I blamed the hardware.

So I went out an bought a new system to meet my video editing and viewing needs, an i7 with 6 core processor and AMD graphics card with 8GB ram. I added a 500GB SSD to put the programs and OS (windows 10) on and put the working files on the HDD. I still can't play video files from the phantom, even 1080-60p files without bad choppiness and blocking, and 4K is even worse. The native player with windows 10 plays the files ok, but not VLC.

I've tried tweaking the settings as seen on various youtube videos, but have yet to find something that works. I'd really prefer to use VLC as my main viewer, any suggestions as to what to try? Possibly some non VLC settings I'm missing here with my graphics card? (AMD Radeon RX 480)

[Lotesdelere]

Try another video output module:
http://wiki.videolan.org/WindowsFAQ-2.0 ... _output.3F

And/or disable/enable GPU acceleration:
http://wiki.videolan.org/WindowsFAQ-2.0 ... age_errors

You can also try to enable or disable some video options such as Overlay and/or Hardware YUV -> RGB conversions.