VC-1/H.264 playback too slow with VLC

[Ohajiki]

Sussed it.

My computer cpu consumption is usually set to low thanks to frequent power cuts in the place where I teach (nothing worse than the lights going out and taking all your marking with it).

So if I crank up the CPU juice it plays perfectly in conjunction with the frame skipping thing.

So check your computers using all it's power.

[VLC_help]

Ohajiki: if you want to use MPC, don't install codec packs. Only codecs/splitters you need. For example haali splitter+ffdshow should work without audio sync issues.

only thing I had during this move is that sometimes the move frezee + pixle yust for 1 or 2 sec. then corrects himself,only happens about 3 or 4 times for the whole move

those scenes have higher bitrate than rest of the movie and that causes VLC to slow down.

I use the crop and aspect ratio in vlc looks good but won't use 100% of my tv screen

you can't use 100% of your TV screen unless the video has the same aspect ratio as your TV. Most DVD and Blu-ray movies have aspect ratio 2,40:1 and normal HDTV has aspect ratio 1,778. You can crop the picture, but in that case you lose some video. You can also change aspect ratio, but that will make everything look like too fat/thin.

[genothomas]

Try it by enabling GPU acceleration in Input and codec settings and change lower video quality post-processing level to 0. Sure, you will get good results by this.