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I'm trying to play some video I recorded with OBS and it lags and stutters.

After tons of testing thinking it was either my PC or OBS I've determined it's the video players because I've tried a few and they all react differently and the lag and stutters aren't in the same places. When I use 5KPlayer it's ALMOST flawless. I'd really just like to use VLC though and am confident there's a way to do so.

I made sure my VLC is 64-bit and that it is up-to-date.

I can watch 1440p YouTube videos no problem.

The only issue I can think of is that my monitor and recordings are 1440p and I've seen online that playing WQHD video can be problematic with adjustments to settings and such.

My specs:
i7 8700
16 GB
1080 Ti OC

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

Please share your logs.

I enabled logging. Opened VLC by clicking on my video and here are the results.

-- logger module started --
main: one instance mode ENABLED
main: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
avcodec: Using D3D11VA (NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, vendor 4318(NVIDIA), device 6918, revision 161) for hardware decoding
direct3d11 error: SetThumbNailClip failed: 0x800706f4
-- logger module stopped --

Let me know if you need anything else.

Thank you sir.

Just an update.

I posted the video to YouTube and it plays flawlessly in 1440p, but the VLC player still can't do it without stutter/lag.

I played it over a few times and it lags and stutters at different times so it's 100% not the video.

Please enable logging before playing the video and post all the logs messages

Yes, I enabled logging and then I played the video after doing so. And that's what came up.

I just played the video 3 times and that's all it gives me unless I did it wrong.

I went into Tools>Preferences>Show all settings>Logger and select log to file and make a file right?

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.

Oh okay, there we go. Sorry about that.

https://pastebin.com/wqFQsYGj

I had the same problem, went back to 2.2.3 and have had no issues since

I had the same problem, went back to 2.2.3 and have had no issues since

That worked for me, no more stuttering with 1080p MKV videos. Thanks.

I went back to 2.2.3 and the issue is very minor now.

Does anyone have any idea what the issue could be?

I thought I was missing codecs because it's a new computer with a fresh windows install but I was told that VLC uses it's own codecs so I don't need to worry about it.

try to disable hardware decoding in preferences.

try to disable hardware decoding in preferences.

De-selecting;

Preferences/Input codecs/Video Codecs/videotoolbox/Use Hardware decoders only

works well for me on Macosx 10.11.6, MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2009), 3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, VLC Version 3.0.3 Vetinari (Intel 64bit). FYI. Thank you.

Good evening VLC does not read well any type of format it is better to use another reader: