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VLC instances don't really interact with one another. This is probably a bottleneck in the video decoding hardware or the network side.

Thank you Remi. I disabled hardware decoding (which I thought I had done a long time ago), and that fixed the issue.

Edit: disabled hardware decoding. that did the trick. disregard! Hello, VLC 3.0.18 Windows 10 22h2 Not a new problem just finally getting around to trying to figure it out. I have a problem when I have a RTSP network stream open in my first instance that playback of local media file, depending on th...