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Right for some odd reason VLC Media player keeps randomly freezing. It has been working great up until now though? Any idea what could be causing this problem of mine?

One reason I'm asking this is because when I play a game using my Displayport which is capable of using 240hz at 2k resolution it won't do that unless I set the desktop to that PLUS the game setting as an example itself. So for a game as an example i need it set to 240hz plus the desktop resolution ...

Okay I've done that. Thank you for the helpful replies. I assume it doesn't matter what 4K monitor I have as long as it says it can do that resolution in the dispay settings on the desktop. I know you can play 4K movies on a monitor/T.V. that can not support that high of a resolution so it simply &q...

On Windows 7 and above, you should use Direct3d11 video acceleration. Make sure to set VLC like that: Tools -> Preferences -> Video Output = Direct3D11 Tools -> Preferences -> Input/Codecs Hardware accelerated decoding = D3D11 Video Acceleration Save, exit and restart VLC for the changes to take ef...

As far as I know, it works only for the newest versions. I know this because my roommate and I wanted to host a movie night, and we needed to play around with it. So, you can go to 'Tools' > 'Preferences', then in the 'Input/Codecs' tab, find the 'Hardware-accelerated decoding' option and select 'D...

From what I understand a recent update not only helps all the settings but it seems optimized by default except the audio I had to set that for 7.1 surround sound headphones. I'm hoping someone here on the forums with experience using VLC media player with a 4K monitor and will be able and willing t...

Hi, calling volunteer people idiot because they don't work on what you'd like feels uncalled for. The vlc-winrt has no maintainers anymore, and there is a lot to do in order to make it working correctly: https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc-winrt Your hard work is appreciated I just wanted to let...