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It seems VLC is tailored for HD resolution - my laptop has 4K screen and VLC seems to struggle with 4K and can't play video at all for 6k or 8k even though potplayer works fine for those resolutions. There is GPU that can handle higher resolutions and plays in several other protools (daVinci, etc) a...

The sound never syncs with video for h,264 or h.265 either HD or 4K although the video plays smoothly. It is not a constant delay and sometimes improves (but not 100%) if set to continuously loop the video. Windows media player it is sync'ed perfectly and in daVinci or other pro tools it is sync'ed ...

I have a relative powerful 4K laptop and can edit 8K files in daVinci etc., but VLC won't play any files over 4K - sound will be played only. However Virtual Dub (x64) will play 5k, 6k, 8k files. An example is here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/f1gbx4pz8ssqpm8/8kWatPhnomTest.mov?dl=0 This is file is fo...

VLC lists support for MXF but the reality seems to be partial support for the simplest form of MXF. I am willing to contribute, and I have seen other similar queries here and in ffmpeg forums. Can anyone use VLC to play real world MXF with external 'file packages' such as video and multi-channel aud...

Has anyone pursued this? If so please share. If not, can Jean-Baptiste or others provide a hint of which modules would need to be opened up? It would be a two step process - load the 'program' file and then later open the external reference itself (for each stream, etc.). I am interested in contribu...