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Hey everyone! I found a solution for myself. I just switched my subtitle encoding to UTF-8 From windows something something. And it works fine. No changes in the shape or look of subtitles too. Hope it helps someone!

I googled the error and I guess vlc can't handle mp4 and subtitles? And this has been true for years? People said converting mp4 to mkv ... Which is true. But converting mp4 to mkv using vlc causes the audio to stutter every 5 seconds. I think I'm just going to ditch VLC and use Windows ...

VLC stutters every time a new line of subtitle comes. When I play without subtitles the video does not stutter/laging.

How you delete the properties (lines Format: and Style:) of .ass file. I tried so many times and the subtitle is showing in a wierd way. One answer is in the post you quoted: I use and old program called "Subtitle Workshop 4" You can find recent versions of this ...

... Amazon Fire TV Lite with VLC 3.4.4 and have this frame drop on every subtitle change. What helped for me is set OpenGL ES2 to "force on" ... TV. I did restart the application after changing the setting but the stutter was still there when a new subtitle line appeared. I do think this ...

VLC stutters every time a new line of subtitle comes. extended srt file.
When I play without subtitles the video does not stutter/laging

Is there a solusion? Or will this be fixed in update

VLC stutters every time a new line of subtitle comes.
When I play without subtitles the video does not stutter.

... Amazon Fire TV Lite with VLC 3.4.4 and have this frame drop on every subtitle change. What helped for me is set OpenGL ES2 to "force on" ... TV. I did restart the application after changing the setting but the stutter was still there when a new subtitle line appeared. I do think this ...

... "Testerr" 's answer fixed my problem! I've been having this stutter problem in vlc player with subtitles for like a year or two, and that one little change fixed it. Wooohoooo! Thank you ...

I also have files with the same problem.

Those are mkv files of 720x574 with two VobSub streams.
Both streams make the video stutter at subtitle text start.
With subtitles off, the video plays fine.

So you can add another user which have this problem.

"Testerr" 's answer fixed my problem! I've been having this stutter problem in vlc player with subtitles for like a year or two, and that one little change fixed it. Wooohoooo! Thank you ...

EncryptedEggs.... that's just so funny.

... And also on other OSes: https://forum.videolan.org/search.php?keywords=subtitle+stutter This is going on for years, at this point I don't know what to do and what to say.

I've been watching MP4 files I downloaded using yt-dlp from HIDIVE and using vtt subtitles from the same site, and I find that whenever a new line of subtitle appears on screen there's a bit of a skip, like a brief freeze. Most easy to notice when camera is panning. ...

... Android TV KD-49XG9005. VLC app 3.4.4. I read videos files from an USB key connected on TV. Files are « standard » .mkv files (no 4K) with .srt subtitles inside. So, my configuration is very simple, nothing sophisticated ! Each time a subtitle appears, there is a jump on the video, skipping ...

My Solution: I have Amazon Fire TV Lite with VLC 3.4.4 and have this frame drop on every subtitle change. What helped for me is set OpenGL ES2 to "force on" in Advanced settings, and Close And Restart VLC. Founding this take me about 6 hour fighting with reading ...

Also noticed this problem at Appletv 4/4k gen1/4k gen2 with app IPTVX.

Whenever subtitles are active there a pile of stutter/judder as soon as the subtitle is shown.

Getting a headache of this. Very annoying.

Still getting this issue. VLC 3.4.3 on a Sony X90J running latest firmware. Very big obvious stutter every time a subtitle shows up. Seems to happen with PGS, but not SRT. Not sure about ASS.

... since my last post: Using the TV’s remote to invoke the settings banner breaks the subs in the way described in my and OP’s posts (fuzzy outlines, stutter-inducing). Using the TV’s remote to invoke the input selection banner breaks the subs. After pressing the remote’s home button, If the stars ...

Having the same problem streaming from Synology 218+ to Android TV Philips 55oled903/12.
Dropping frames when new subtitle line appears. Very annoying.

VLC for Android TV 3.3.1 so no fix has been done yet.

I'm still having this exact problem on my Mi box, whenever i remove the subtitle the video playback is fine. I hope you will find a solution for this soon

I have the same exact problem on my Android TV too. The video stutters badly every time a subtitle line comes up, when playing 4K HDR videos (I use Network Stream and stream from the Internet, I don't have enough storage to test if this happens for local files too but ...

Hello, I have the same issue.. 4K movie files hosted on Synology NAS, playing with AndroidTV on Philips 55OLED903/12 TV. If the subtitles are activated frames are dropped on many subtitle lines.

Saludos
Juan

... issues. I am watching the news and others and VLC stuffer when using subtitles. No, not subtitle files. A plugin like closed captioning when I enable it and it is stutter when I watch the news and any show on android tv BUT if I turn it off and video ...

I have exactly same issue. When playing video 4K HDR, the video stutters every time new subtitle line is displayed. Switching off subtitles resolve the issue.