The "OpenGL" trick did not work for me, but disabling hardware acceleration solved the problem. https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=146042 Tools -> Preferences -> Input/Codecs -> Hardware acceleration decoding -> DISABLE The problem seems to be in the driver, because even i...
First solution worked for me. The problem seems to be in the driver, because even if vlc uses the hardware acceleration, the driver slow down the GPU frequency, causing the problem (tested with afterburner, gtx 980, drivers updated).