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Hello friends. First, I would like to apologize for not being able to figure out a solution myself via Google and searching this forum and thus having to bother someone here by asking for help.

I'm running Windows 8 on an Acer Aspire One AO725-0687 Netbook with an AMD Fusion C-70 APU (1.0-1.33 Ghz X2) with Radeon HD 7290 and 2.0GB RAM. The problem I'm having is that VLC (v2.0.5 TwoFlower) stutters when playing HD Video of 720p or higher. It seems to be putting out about only 15 FPS on a 60 FPS 720p .mp4 video. The audio plays back fine.

At first, I thought it might be the low-end hardware, but Windows Media Player plays the same file at full 60 FPS with no issue. Youtube Flash Video can playback 1080p with no issue as well. I get the same issue on 30fps HD video. I know all the same videos playback fine on my Windows 7 desktop with VLC 2.0.5 (though that one is running a Phenom II X4).

On this netbook, VLC can only play HD videos properly (save all the dropped frames) with GPU accelerated decoding enabled in the settings; otherwise I get many strange artifacts and even worse stuttering. I messed with a few advanced settings suggested to people who had similar playback issues, but never got any results.

Thank you in advance for any suggestions.

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

And/or disable/enable GPU acceleration:
http://wiki.videolan.org/WindowsFAQ-2.0 ... age_errors

And/or adjust FFmpeg threads:
http://wiki.videolan.org/WindowsFAQ-2.0 ... r_laggy.29

You can also try to enable or disable some video options such as Overlay and/or Hardware YUV -> RGB conversions.

Any VLC version > 1.x stutters for me on windows when playing DVDs (but Media Player is fine). I tried all the settings and suggestions but no solution. I use VLC 0.9.6 and it's great.

Any VLC version > 1.x stutters for me on windows when playing DVDs (but Media Player is fine). I tried all the settings and suggestions but no solution. I use VLC 0.9.6 and it's great.

0.9.6 is way too old and dangerous!

Scratch that part I said about it stuttering on 30fps video. It only stutters on 60 fps that is 720p or higher. There seems to be no edit post button.

Unfortunately, none of the settings Lotesdelere suggested did anything (I restarted VLC after each change in settings). Media Player is the only player that can deal with 60 fps video (both from my camcorder and an HD capture card). Also, on this hardware, VLC works only with GPU acceleration enabled.

I found this thread concerning a similar issue, where VLC lags but Windows Media Player works just fine, but it was never resolved:

viewtopic.php?f=14&t=100663