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I am capturing mjpg stream from a network into our application. I have a problem with the caching - when I set the network caching to 0 in VLC media player, there is no delay and all is well. When I set the caching to 0 in our application(--network-caching=0) I still get a one second delay. However,...

OK, I think U have a solution - I am working in Windows 7, so changing vlc to use Direct2D (--vout=direct2d) lowered the GPU Load to around 20% while running 4 video windows, and the application is fully responsive now.
Is there any downside to using Direct2D (expect it being platform specific)?

I recommend you to use GPU-Z http://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/ When I run the 4 videos, I do see that the GPU is getting close to 100%: http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/1552/gpux.gif This is my card data: http://imageshack.us/a/img401/8028/cardn.gif My question is how can I control this... Thanks.

Of course, the hardware has limitations. I understand that there might be some limitations, is there any way that I can prioritize the update of the video window, and give the UI higher priority for example? The problem is that the UI becomes non-responsive - I would prefer to lower the frame-rate ...

Hello there, I need to open several windows playing videos in a c++ ms-windows application, allowing the user to control each of them (play/pause location etc...) As a simple test I created a window, created 4 media_player instances (libvlc_media_player_new), assigned each of them to a window (libvl...