Tips to avoid lagging

[Ivanatis]

Hello,
I have been struggling a bit lately with vlc player and maybe you can help me. I am not even 100% sure if the player is the problem ot of my system is getting old or is somehow infected, but I thought I still give it a try here and maybe you can tell me if I can change some of the settings to solve this.

With several videos (720 p usually) I have had issues lately that the video keeps lagging. Audio is mostly fine, or just a brief interruption, but video freezes at some point and the audio keeps going on in a normal way. The strange thing is that once I move my mouse cursor, the video resumes as well within 2 or 3 seconds and all is in place again, but if I don't, then it takes really long, at least 30 seconds with the cursor loading circle until the video works well again. Sorry, English is not my first language. I hope it's possible to understand what I am talking about. By the way I have Windows 10 and newest VLC Player version 3.0.16 Also deleted VLC Player entirely and reinstalled, but it's still the same issue. Thanks in advance, any help is appreciated.

[Lotesdelere]

Try another video output module:
http://wiki.videolan.org/WindowsFAQ-2.0 ... _output.3F

You can also try with and without hardware acceleration.
You can also try to enable or disable some video options such as Overlay and/or Hardware YUV -> RGB conversions.

Some other tips:
https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=156428

[Ivanatis]

Thank you for those tips. I will give it a try