choppy playback all of a sudden
Posted: 10 Feb 2024 01:43
Hi All. I realize everything about this post is completely cliché but here goes:
Been using VLC for what seems like 20 years (though probably more like 10-15 but cant even remember anymore). I have never had a problem with VLC. Never even needed this forum. Occasionally I'd have an odd issue with playback and and it was easily solved by 1 or 2 settings.
I have a very new upper midrange PC with RTX3080 graphics card windows10. I have an UHD monitor using Display Port.
About 2 weeks ago I started having choppy playback with 4k and HD movies. About once every minute it will act like it is paused for a half a second and then resume. Very choppy very laggy almost to the point where I feel a little motion sick.
VLC has ran so solidly for so many years that my immediate reaction was that it was the files, not VLC. I have my family videos backed up on an external hard drive so I took my backup files copied them onto my HD and tried again. Same issue. I went to windows settings and made sure all windows updates were installed, checked graphics card version - that's fine, ect. Back to VLC reset all settings. Same issue. Uninstalled, reinstalled. Same issue. I even took an old hard drive that I was using only as an archive for my side bookkeeping business, put that back into my PC booted windows from it, installed latest version of VLC and BAH! Same issue! <facepalm>
On a whim I played the same moves with windows movie player and to my surprise they played just fine... zero problems...
I have tried just about every common fix for this that I could find in google searches and so far absolutely nothing has worked. I am completely at a loss here. Is it possible something broke in an update to VLC recently? Thanks much for any ideas anyone can pass along.
Been using VLC for what seems like 20 years (though probably more like 10-15 but cant even remember anymore). I have never had a problem with VLC. Never even needed this forum. Occasionally I'd have an odd issue with playback and and it was easily solved by 1 or 2 settings.
I have a very new upper midrange PC with RTX3080 graphics card windows10. I have an UHD monitor using Display Port.
About 2 weeks ago I started having choppy playback with 4k and HD movies. About once every minute it will act like it is paused for a half a second and then resume. Very choppy very laggy almost to the point where I feel a little motion sick.
VLC has ran so solidly for so many years that my immediate reaction was that it was the files, not VLC. I have my family videos backed up on an external hard drive so I took my backup files copied them onto my HD and tried again. Same issue. I went to windows settings and made sure all windows updates were installed, checked graphics card version - that's fine, ect. Back to VLC reset all settings. Same issue. Uninstalled, reinstalled. Same issue. I even took an old hard drive that I was using only as an archive for my side bookkeeping business, put that back into my PC booted windows from it, installed latest version of VLC and BAH! Same issue! <facepalm>
On a whim I played the same moves with windows movie player and to my surprise they played just fine... zero problems...
I have tried just about every common fix for this that I could find in google searches and so far absolutely nothing has worked. I am completely at a loss here. Is it possible something broke in an update to VLC recently? Thanks much for any ideas anyone can pass along.