Can VLC play 4k ultra HD video

[andylolly]

New to VLC & love its many options, however I am unable to play 4k video, doesn't start then very choppy. No problem with other players so nothing wrong with my system or CPU.
Would welcome any advice.
Thanks.

[Lotesdelere]

Make sure to enable GPU acceleration:
https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=79953

[andylolly]

Thanks but I have been right through that topic & cannot find this GPU thing. Don't know what I am doing wrong but I cannot get the page shown in the screenshot. So I still have to use other players for 4k video.

[andylolly]

Further to my above reply............I have now solved this to some extent by resetting preferences. However if I try to use the interactive zoom, a great feature of VLC, my favourite, then the picture just freezes. Can anyone help or advise on this?
Thanks.

[andylolly]

Was really hoping someone had an answer to this ??

[suppa]

Make sure to enable GPU acceleration:
https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=79953

GPU acceleration is broken since 2.2.x release. No GPU is used

[andylolly]

Six months on!
Is this problem sorted yet? VLC is the premier player that plays anything..........or is it??

[Nephele]

The 4K video playback with VLC has strict requirements on the computer's processor and graphics chip. Sometimes, even if your computer meets the requirements, you may find that 4K video plays back choppy. This is due to the immense processing power required to play 4K. You can fix this issue by enabling the GPU accelerated decoding feature in VLC, this feature in theory uses the processing power of the graphic card to lighten the load on the processor of the system.

However, according to VLC's GPU decoding page, this feature is only available for H.264 streams. In addition, as the data is decoded in the GPU at the decoding stage and then transferred back to the player so that the other stages, filtering and streaming for instance, can be processed, this process can under under circumstances be slower than without gpu acceleration enabled. What's more, the VLC GPU decoding is only available for select operating systems. While Windows Vista and newer versions of the Microsoft operating system are supported, Windows XP is not at this point in time. The majority of graphic cards should support hardware acceleration just fine. Make sure you have installed the latest drivers though.

[andylolly]

Thanks for the advice Nephele but I cannot find how to " enable GPU accelerated decoding ". When I go to preferences> input & codecs I do not get the page as shown in Lotesdelere screen shot so I cannot enable?
Help please. Thanks.

[Nephele]

Open VLC Media Player and click on Tools > Preferences or press Ctrl-P to open the settings window of the program. If you are using the simple settings interface, click on Input & Codecs on the left sidebar and check the Use GPU accelerated decoding box there.
If you are using the "all" interface select Input/Codecs > Video Codecs > FFmpeg > Hardware decoding instead to enable acceleration this way.
Click on the save button afterwards and restart the media player to work with the new setting. Try playing several video files to see if hardware acceleration makes a difference in terms of playback. If it does, keep the setting enabled. If it does not, just go back to the settings to uncheck the option again.

[andylolly]

Thanks Nephole. Following your instructions the only options I get are " Disable ", " Automatic " or " Direct X ".....................Enable is not a choice??

[TheVictor]

Thanks Nephole. Following your instructions the only options I get are " Disable ", " Automatic " or " Direct X ".....................Enable is not a choice??

"Automatic" & "DXVA" are both ways to enable acceleration. If it ain't disabled, it's enabled.
According to page https://wiki.videolan.org/VLC_GPU_Decoding/ of VideoLAN's Wiki, "In VLC version 2.1, you can select which acceleration method you wish to use among those available for your operating system (if any). In earlier versions, there was simply a check box."

[d-Raven-b]

I have the same problems with choppy, stuttering 4K videos from my drone.
I started with resetting my VLC to default settings. Then I went to "Input/Codecs" and set "Hardware Acceleration" to "Automatic".
This brings no speed benefit at all - the video is as choppy and stuttery as before.

Then I set the setting to "DirectX Video Acceleration (DXVA) 2.0" and VLC crashes whenever I want to start one of the videos.
(It wants to send a crash report but then it encounters "an error while connecting to the FTP server".)
I use an Intel 4400 with the latest drivers and the videos are fine! If I play them with Windows' own "Film & TV" App they run as smooth as butter..

Any advice?

[Lotesdelere]

Then I set the setting to "DirectX Video Acceleration (DXVA) 2.0" and VLC crashes whenever I want to start one of the videos.
(It wants to send a crash report but then it encounters "an error while connecting to the FTP server".)
I use an Intel 4400 with the latest drivers and the videos are fine! If I play them with Windows' own "Film & TV" App they run as smooth as butter..

Please open Tools -> Messages (set Verbosity to 2) before you start the playback, and then paste the full resulting log here or on Pastebin.com if it's too long.

Also upload a short sample of a problematic file to either Zippyshare.com (200 MB max) or to EmbedUpload.com, the latter will upload the file for you to several other hosts (use the default ones) and then post the link to the file here.

If needed cut it with DGsplit and read here about how to do it:
viewtopic.php?f=14&t=57724&p=193335#p193335
50 MB max should be enough.

[d-Raven-b]

Whenever I set the Log to 2 and start playing a file with DXVA enabled the player crashes. However, if I then want to open the log to export it it's empty and set to 0 again. So I can't help you why VLC is crashing..
However, I can post a log of a stuttery video:

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core debug: adding item `DJI_0032.MP4' ( file:///F:/DCIM/100MEDIA/DJI_0032.MP4 ) core debug: processing request item: DJI_0032.MP4, node: null, skip: 0 core debug: rebuilding array of current - root Wiedergabeliste core debug: rebuild done - 1 items, index 0 core debug: starting playback of the new playlist item core debug: resyncing on DJI_0032.MP4 core debug: DJI_0032.MP4 is at 0 core debug: creating new input thread core debug: Creating an input for 'DJI_0032.MP4' core debug: Creating an input for 'DJI_0032.MP4' core debug: requesting art for DJI_0032.MP4 core debug: using timeshift granularity of 50 MiB, in path 'C:\Users\Raven\AppData\Local\Temp' core debug: `file:///F:/DCIM/100MEDIA/DJI_0032.MP4' gives access `file' demux `' path `/F:/DCIM/100MEDIA/DJI_0032.MP4' core debug: specified demux `any' core debug: looking for meta fetcher module matching "any": 1 candidates core debug: creating demux: access='file' demux='any' location='/F:/DCIM/100MEDIA/DJI_0032.MP4' file='F:\DCIM\100MEDIA\DJI_0032.MP4' core debug: looking for access_demux module matching "file": 12 candidates lua debug: Trying Lua scripts in C:\Users\Raven\AppData\Roaming\vlc\lua\meta\fetcher core debug: no access_demux modules matched core debug: creating access 'file' location='/F:/DCIM/100MEDIA/DJI_0032.MP4', path='F:\DCIM\100MEDIA\DJI_0032.MP4' lua debug: Trying Lua scripts in C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\fetcher core debug: looking for access module matching "file": 21 candidates filesystem debug: opening file `F:\DCIM\100MEDIA\DJI_0032.MP4' core debug: using access module "filesystem" lua debug: Trying Lua playlist script C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\fetcher\tvrage.luac core debug: Using stream method for AStream* core debug: starting pre-buffering core debug: received first data after 0 ms core debug: pre-buffering done 1024 bytes in 0s - 1000000 KiB/s core debug: looking for stream_filter module matching "any": 6 candidates core debug: no stream_filter modules matched core debug: looking for stream_filter module matching "record": 6 candidates core debug: using stream_filter module "record" core debug: creating demux: access='file' demux='any' location='/F:/DCIM/100MEDIA/DJI_0032.MP4' file='F:\DCIM\100MEDIA\DJI_0032.MP4' core debug: looking for demux module matching "mp4": 66 candidates mp4 warning: unknown box type cxsp (incompletely loaded) mp4 warning: unknown box type cysp (incompletely loaded) mp4 warning: unknown box type czsp (incompletely loaded) mp4 warning: unknown box type cfpt (incompletely loaded) mp4 warning: unknown box type cfyw (incompletely loaded) mp4 warning: unknown box type cfrl (incompletely loaded) mp4 warning: unknown box type cgpt (incompletely loaded) mp4 warning: unknown box type cgyw (incompletely loaded) mp4 warning: unknown box type cgrl (incompletely loaded) mp4 warning: unknown box type cdji (incompletely loaded) mp4 warning: unknown box type cres (incompletely loaded) mp4 warning: unknown box type Xtra (incompletely loaded) mp4 warning: unknown box type cuid (incompletely loaded) mp4 warning: unknown box type cmdl (incompletely loaded) mp4 warning: unknown box type alis (incompletely loaded) lua debug: skipping script (unmatched scope) C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\fetcher\tvrage.luac core debug: no meta fetcher modules matched core debug: searching art for DJI_0032.MP4 core debug: looking for art finder module matching "any": 2 candidates mp4 debug: added fragment moov mp4 debug: dumping root Box "root" mp4 debug: | + ftyp size 32 offset 0 mp4 debug: | + mdat size 2005518480 offset 32 mp4 debug: | + moov size 312192 offset 2005518512 mp4 debug: | | + mvhd size 108 offset 2005518520 mp4 debug: | | + udta size 1024 offset 2005518628 mp4 debug: | | | + cxyz size 39 offset 2005518636 mp4 debug: | | | + cxsp size 18 offset 2005518675 mp4 debug: | | | + cysp size 18 offset 2005518693 mp4 debug: | | | + czsp size 18 offset 2005518711 mp4 debug: | | | + cfpt size 18 offset 2005518729 mp4 debug: | | | + cfyw size 20 offset 2005518747 mp4 debug: | | | + cfrl size 18 offset 2005518767 mp4 debug: | | | + cgpt size 19 offset 2005518785 mp4 debug: | | | + cgyw size 20 offset 2005518804 mp4 debug: | | | + cgrl size 18 offset 2005518824 mp4 debug: | | | + cdji size 24 offset 2005518842 mp4 debug: | | | + cres size 32 offset 2005518866 mp4 debug: | | | + meta size 140 offset 2005518898 mp4 debug: | | | | + hdlr size 32 offset 2005518910 mp4 debug: | | | | + ilst size 96 offset 2005518942 mp4 debug: | | | | | + ccmt size 88 offset 2005518950 mp4 debug: | | | + Xtra size 64 offset 2005519038 mp4 debug: | | | + cuid size 16 offset 2005519102 mp4 debug: | | | + cmdl size 32 offset 2005519118 mp4 debug: | | | + free size 502 offset 2005519150 mp4 debug: | | + trak size 311052 offset 2005519652 mp4 debug: | | | + tkhd size 92 offset 2005519660 mp4 debug: | | | + edts size 36 offset 2005519752 mp4 debug: | | | | + elst size 28 offset 2005519760 mp4 debug: | | | + mdia size 310916 offset 2005519788 mp4 debug: | | | | + mdhd size 32 offset 2005519796 mp4 debug: | | | | + hdlr size 49 offset 2005519828 mp4 debug: | | | | + minf size 310827 offset 2005519877 mp4 debug: | | | | | + vmhd size 20 offset 2005519885 mp4 debug: | | | | | + dinf size 36 offset 2005519905 mp4 debug: | | | | | | + dref size 28 offset 2005519913 mp4 debug: | | | | | | | + alis size 12 offset 2005519929 mp4 debug: | | | | | + stbl size 310763 offset 2005519941 mp4 debug: | | | | | | + stsd size 179 offset 2005519949 mp4 debug: | | | | | | | + avc1 size 163 offset 2005519965 mp4 debug: | | | | | | | | + avcC size 77 offset 2005520051 mp4 debug: | | | | | | + stts size 24 offset 2005520128 mp4 debug: | | | | | | + ctts size 154040 offset 2005520152 mp4 debug: | | | | | | + stsc size 28 offset 2005674192 mp4 debug: | | | | | | + stsz size 77032 offset 2005674220 mp4 debug: | | | | | | + stco size 77028 offset 2005751252 mp4 debug: | | | | | | + stss size 2424 offset 2005828280 mp4 debug: unrecognized major file specification (avc1). mp4 debug: found 1 tracks mp4 warning: elst box found mp4 debug: - [0] duration=401505ms media time=0ms) rate=1.0 lua debug: Trying Lua scripts in C:\Users\Raven\AppData\Roaming\vlc\lua\meta\art lua debug: Trying Lua scripts in C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\art lua debug: Trying Lua playlist script C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\art\00_musicbrainz.luac mp4 debug: track[Id 0x1] read 19253 chunk mp4 warning: STTS table of 1 entries lua debug: skipping script (unmatched scope) C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\art\00_musicbrainz.luac lua debug: Trying Lua playlist script C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\art\01_googleimage.luac lua debug: skipping script (unmatched scope) C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\art\01_googleimage.luac lua debug: Trying Lua playlist script C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\art\02_frenchtv.luac lua debug: skipping script (unmatched scope) C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\art\02_frenchtv.luac lua debug: Trying Lua playlist script C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\art\03_lastfm.luac lua debug: skipping script (unmatched scope) C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\art\03_lastfm.luac core debug: no art finder modules matched core debug: looking for meta fetcher module matching "any": 1 candidates lua debug: Trying Lua scripts in C:\Users\Raven\AppData\Roaming\vlc\lua\meta\fetcher lua debug: Trying Lua scripts in C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\fetcher lua debug: Trying Lua playlist script C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\fetcher\tvrage.luac core debug: using meta fetcher module "lua" core debug: removing module "lua" core debug: searching art for DJI_0032.MP4 core debug: looking for art finder module matching "any": 2 candidates lua debug: Trying Lua scripts in C:\Users\Raven\AppData\Roaming\vlc\lua\meta\art lua debug: Trying Lua scripts in C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\art lua debug: Trying Lua playlist script C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\art\00_musicbrainz.luac mp4 warning: CTTS table of 19253 entries lua debug: Trying Lua playlist script C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\art\01_googleimage.luac lua debug: Trying Lua playlist script C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\art\02_frenchtv.luac lua debug: Trying Lua playlist script C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\art\03_lastfm.luac core debug: no art finder modules matched core debug: art not found for DJI_0032.MP4 mp4 debug: track[Id 0x1] read 19253 samples length:401s core debug: selecting program id=0 mp4 debug: adding track[Id 0x1] video (enable) language eng mp4 debug: fragment offset 2005518512, data 402005518512, duration 0 core debug: using demux module "mp4" core debug: looking for a subtitle file in F:\DCIM\100MEDIA\ core debug: looking for decoder module matching "any": 43 candidates core debug: meta ok for (null), need to fetch art core debug: looking for meta fetcher module matching "any": 1 candidates lua debug: Trying Lua scripts in C:\Users\Raven\AppData\Roaming\vlc\lua\meta\fetcher lua debug: Trying Lua scripts in C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\fetcher lua debug: Trying Lua playlist script C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\fetcher\tvrage.luac lua debug: skipping script (unmatched scope) C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\fetcher\tvrage.luac core debug: no meta fetcher modules matched core debug: searching art for DJI_0032.MP4 core debug: looking for art finder module matching "any": 2 candidates lua debug: Trying Lua scripts in C:\Users\Raven\AppData\Roaming\vlc\lua\meta\art lua debug: Trying Lua scripts in C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\art lua debug: Trying Lua playlist script C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\art\00_musicbrainz.luac lua debug: skipping script (unmatched scope) C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\art\00_musicbrainz.luac lua debug: Trying Lua playlist script C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\art\01_googleimage.luac lua debug: skipping script (unmatched scope) C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\art\01_googleimage.luac lua debug: Trying Lua playlist script C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\art\02_frenchtv.luac lua debug: skipping script (unmatched scope) C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\art\02_frenchtv.luac lua debug: Trying Lua playlist script C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\art\03_lastfm.luac lua debug: skipping script (unmatched scope) C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\art\03_lastfm.luac core debug: no art finder modules matched core debug: looking for meta fetcher module matching "any": 1 candidates lua debug: Trying Lua scripts in C:\Users\Raven\AppData\Roaming\vlc\lua\meta\fetcher lua debug: Trying Lua scripts in C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\fetcher lua debug: Trying Lua playlist script C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\fetcher\tvrage.luac core debug: using meta fetcher module "lua" core debug: removing module "lua" core debug: searching art for DJI_0032.MP4 core debug: looking for art finder module matching "any": 2 candidates lua debug: Trying Lua scripts in C:\Users\Raven\AppData\Roaming\vlc\lua\meta\art lua debug: Trying Lua scripts in C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\art lua debug: Trying Lua playlist script C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\art\00_musicbrainz.luac lua debug: Trying Lua playlist script C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\art\01_googleimage.luac lua debug: Trying Lua playlist script C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\art\02_frenchtv.luac lua debug: Trying Lua playlist script C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\art\03_lastfm.luac core debug: no art finder modules matched core debug: art not found for DJI_0032.MP4 qt4 debug: IM: Setting an input avcodec debug: CPU flags: 0x0107d3db avcodec debug: trying to use direct rendering avcodec debug: allowing 4 thread(s) for decoding avcodec warning: threaded frame decoding is not compatible with DXVA2, disabled avcodec debug: avcodec codec (H264 - MPEG-4 AVC (part 10)) started avcodec debug: using slice thread mode with 4 threads core debug: using decoder module "avcodec" core debug: looking for meta reader module matching "any": 2 candidates core debug: using meta reader module "taglib" core debug: removing module "taglib" core debug: `file:///F:/DCIM/100MEDIA/DJI_0032.MP4' successfully opened mp4 debug: elst (0) gives 0ms (movie)-> 0ms (track) mp4 debug: track[Id 0x1] using Sync Sample Box (stss) mp4 debug: stss gives 0 --> 0 (sample number) core debug: Buffering 0% core debug: Buffering 6% core debug: Buffering 13% core debug: Buffering 20% core debug: Buffering 27% core debug: Buffering 34% core debug: Buffering 41% avcodec debug: available hardware decoder output format 61 (dxva2_vld) avcodec debug: available hardware decoder output format 128 (d3d11va_vld) avcodec debug: available software decoder output format 0 (yuv420p) core debug: Buffering 48% core debug: looking for hw decoder module matching "any": 1 candidates core debug: no hw decoder modules matched core debug: Buffering 55% core debug: looking for text renderer module matching "any": 2 candidates core debug: Buffering 62% core debug: Buffering 69% core debug: Buffering 76% core debug: Buffering 83% core debug: Buffering 90% core debug: Buffering 97% core debug: Stream buffering done (312 ms in 3 ms) freetype debug: Using Arial as font from file C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\arial.ttf freetype debug: Using Courier New as mono-font from file C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\cour.ttf freetype debug: using fontsize: 2 core debug: using text renderer module "freetype" core debug: looking for video filter2 module matching "any": 58 candidates swscale debug: 32x32 (32x32) chroma: YUVA -> 16x16 (16x16) chroma: RGBA with scaling using Bicubic (good quality) core debug: using video filter2 module "swscale" core debug: looking for video filter2 module matching "any": 58 candidates yuvp debug: YUVP to YUVA converter core debug: using video filter2 module "yuvp" core debug: Deinterlacing available core debug: deinterlace 0, mode blend, is_needed 0 core debug: Opening vout display wrapper core debug: looking for vout display module matching "any": 11 candidates direct3d debug: creating Vout EventThread direct3d debug: Win32VoutCreateWindow core debug: looking for vout window hwnd module matching "qt4,any": 3 candidates qt4 debug: requesting video window... qt4 debug: Video was requested 0, 0 core debug: using vout window hwnd module "qt4" direct3d debug: created video sub-window direct3d debug: Vout EventThread running direct3d debug: disabling screen saver direct3d debug: Direct3d Device: Intel(R) HD Graphics Family 32902 2582 9 core debug: VoutDisplayEvent 'resize' 1938x1127 window direct3d warning: trying surface pixel format: YV12 direct3d debug: selected surface pixel format is YV12 direct3d debug: Using D3DTEXF_LINEAR for minification direct3d debug: Using D3DTEXF_LINEAR for magnification direct3d debug: Direct3D scene created successfully direct3d debug: Direct3D device adapter successfully initialized core debug: using vout display module "direct3d" core debug: original format sz 1920x1090, of (0,0), vsz 1920x1080, 4cc I420, sar 1:1, msk r0x0 g0x0 b0x0 core debug: removing module "freetype" core debug: looking for text renderer module matching "any": 2 candidates core debug: VoutDisplayEvent 'resize' 1914x967 window freetype debug: Using Arial as font from file C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\arial.ttf freetype debug: Using Courier New as mono-font from file C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\cour.ttf freetype debug: using fontsize: 2 core debug: using text renderer module "freetype" avcodec warning: plane 0 not aligned avcodec warning: disabling direct rendering core debug: End of video preroll core debug: Received first picture core debug: Decoder wait done in 577 ms core warning: picture is too late to be displayed (missing 24 ms) core warning: picture is too late to be displayed (missing 34 ms) core warning: picture is too late to be displayed (missing 44 ms) core warning: picture is too late to be displayed (missing 52 ms) core warning: picture is too late to be displayed (missing 56 ms) avcodec warning: More than 4 late frames, dropping frame avcodec warning: More than 4 late frames, dropping frame avcodec warning: More than 4 late frames, dropping frame avcodec warning: More than 4 late frames, dropping frame avcodec warning: More than 4 late frames, dropping frame avcodec warning: More than 4 late frames, dropping frame avcodec warning: More than 4 late frames, dropping frame avcodec warning: More than 4 late frames, dropping frame avcodec warning: More than 4 late frames, dropping frame avcodec warning: More than 4 late frames, dropping frame avcodec warning: More than 4 late frames, dropping frame avcodec warning: More than 4 late frames, dropping frame avcodec warning: More than 4 late frames, dropping frame avcodec warning: More than 4 late frames, dropping frame avcodec warning: More than 4 late frames, dropping frame avcodec warning: More than 4 late frames, dropping frame avcodec warning: More than 4 late frames, dropping frame avcodec warning: More than 4 late frames, dropping frame core debug: picture might be displayed late (missing 5 ms) core debug: picture might be displayed late (missing 8 ms) core debug: picture might be displayed late (missing 15 ms) core warning: picture is too late to be displayed (missing 20 ms) core warning: picture is too late to be displayed (missing 49 ms) avcodec warning: More than 4 late frames, dropping frame core debug: auto hiding mouse cursor avcodec warning: More than 4 late frames, dropping frame avcodec warning: More than 4 late frames, dropping frame avcodec warning: More than 4 late frames, dropping frame avcodec warning: More than 4 late frames, dropping frame avcodec warning: More than 4 late frames, dropping frame avcodec warning: More than 4 late frames, dropping frame avcodec warning: More than 4 late frames, dropping frame avcodec warning: More than 4 late frames, dropping frame avcodec warning: More than 4 late frames, dropping frame avcodec warning: More than 4 late frames, dropping frame avcodec warning: More than 4 late frames, dropping frame avcodec warning: More than 4 late frames, dropping frame avcodec warning: More than 4 late frames, dropping frame avcodec warning: More than 4 late frames, dropping frame core debug: picture might be displayed late (missing 3 ms) core debug: picture might be displayed late (missing 9 ms) core debug: picture might be displayed late (missing 14 ms) core warning: picture is too late to be displayed (missing 47 ms) core warning: picture is too late to be displayed (missing 45 ms) avcodec warning: More than 4 late frames, dropping frame avcodec warning: More than 4 late frames, dropping frame avcodec warning: More than 4 late frames, dropping frame avcodec warning: More than 4 late frames, dropping frame avcodec warning: More than 4 late frames, dropping frame avcodec warning: More than 4 late frames, dropping frame avcodec warning: More than 4 late frames, dropping frame core debug: picture might be displayed late (missing 5 ms) core debug: picture might be displayed late (missing 11 ms) core debug: picture might be displayed late (missing 19 ms) core warning: picture is too late to be displayed (missing 28 ms) core warning: picture is too late to be displayed (missing 31 ms) avcodec warning: More than 4 late frames, dropping frame avcodec warning: More than 4 late frames, dropping frame avcodec warning: More than 4 late frames, dropping frame avcodec warning: More than 4 late frames, dropping frame avcodec warning: More than 4 late frames, dropping frame avcodec warning: More than 4 late frames, dropping frame core debug: picture might be displayed late (missing 10 ms) core debug: picture might be displayed late (missing 11 ms) core debug: auto hiding mouse cursor core warning: picture is too late to be displayed (missing 25 ms) core warning: picture is too late to be displayed (missing 30 ms) core warning: picture is too late to be displayed (missing 40 ms) avcodec warning: More than 4 late frames, dropping frame avcodec warning: More than 4 late frames, dropping frame avcodec warning: More than 4 late frames, dropping frame avcodec warning: More than 4 late frames, dropping frame avcodec warning: More than 4 late frames, dropping frame core debug: VoutDisplayEvent 'mouse button' 0 t=8 core debug: VoutDisplayEvent 'mouse button' 0 t=9 avcodec warning: More than 4 late frames, dropping frame core debug: auto hiding mouse cursor

I also created a split of my file. Please note that I am unable to actually see any video of the split, since the player remains blank. Maybe that's normal..
http://www30.zippyshare.com/v/TY4h0mnZ/file.html

The video is recorded through a DJI Mavic Pro - not a unpopular model..

[aland]

To d-Raven-b - I use a DJI Phantom 4 Pro and had the same problem as you with 4K playback, but Nephele's solution above fixed this for me - selecting the "DirectX Video Acceleration (DXVA) 2.0" option [WIN10-64]. However, note that I am using the DJI 4K-H264 option, not H265 - could make a difference.

[NightRunner417]

Hi all,

I ran into this same problem running an 8 core AMD system with 16GB memory and a GTX970 vid card. Every other program seemed to be ok with playing my DJI Mavic's 4k MP4 files but I really wanted VLC for taking snapshots from the flight footage, and the lag was so bad it was hardly even updating at all. SO, I followed the advice to check acceleration, and sure enough it was turned off, but enabling it only just made it faster. I was still getting only say 1 frame per second playback rates. Then it clicked in my head... Hadn't I set some post processing in VLC because I wanted better contrast and color rendition when playing movies? That might hurt performance, surely. Turns out I was so very right. Not only did I have a filter going for contrast and brightness, I also had a sharpening filter turned on. Killing the levels filter sped it up a little, but turning off the sharpening filter took away all the lag and made it nice and fluid.

You can find these options by right clicking right in the playback view while playing a movie, and then click "Tools" and then "Effects and Filters" and then clicking the "Video Effects" tab in the middle of the little window that pops up. Make sure that both "Image Adjust" and "Sharpen" are disabled. Just disabling "Sharpen" will probably make more than enough difference all by itself. It's a huge fat resource pig.

Hope this helps some of you like it helped me. VLC is one of the few options to pull full res snaps out of a 4K video when not using a 4K monitor. This besides the fact that VLC is just completely awesome no matter what.

Rick NR417

[Lunithy]

Hi all,

I ran into this same problem running an 8 core AMD system with 16GB memory and a GTX970 vid card. Every other program seemed to be ok with playing my DJI Mavic's 4k MP4 files but I really wanted VLC for taking snapshots from the flight footage, and the lag was so bad it was hardly even updating at all. SO, I followed the advice to check acceleration, and sure enough it was turned off, but enabling it only just made it faster. I was still getting only say 1 frame per second playback rates. Then it clicked in my head... Hadn't I set some post processing in VLC because I wanted better contrast and color rendition when playing movies? That might hurt performance, surely. Turns out I was so very right. Not only did I have a filter going for contrast and brightness, I also had a sharpening filter turned on. Killing the levels filter sped it up a little, but turning off the sharpening filter took away all the lag and made it nice and fluid.

You can find these options by right clicking right in the playback view while playing a movie, and then click "Tools" and then "Effects and Filters" and then clicking the "Video Effects" tab in the middle of the little window that pops up. Make sure that both "Image Adjust" and "Sharpen" are disabled. Just disabling "Sharpen" will probably make more than enough difference all by itself. It's a huge fat resource pig.

Hope this helps some of you like it helped me. VLC is one of the few options to pull full res snaps out of a 4K video when not using a 4K monitor. This besides the fact that VLC is just completely awesome no matter what.

Rick NR417

Thank you this was what I needed to understand I found exactly what you described so again thanks .