watching a video with a higher resolution than your computer

[COKEDUDE]

watching a video with a higher resolution than your computer has from vlc

Does anyone know of a way to watch a video with a higher resolution than your computer has from vlc? My monitor has a resolution of only 1024X768. I am trying to watch a video that has a resolution of 1920X1080. How can I adjust vlc's settings to deal with this problem? I tried to shrink the video really small manually and I used the video, zoom, 1:4 quarter setting also. Both ways the video still froze a lot.

[Sébastien Escudier]

Maybe you don't have enough cpu power to decode a video with this resolution ?

[COKEDUDE]

Maybe you don't have enough cpu power to decode a video with this resolution ?

Yes you are correct. I have a 3 year old laptop. Could I adjust some vlc settings to make it better?

[Sébastien Escudier]

Maybe you could use GPU decoding, but I don't know if this is available with your GPU. Try tho option in vlc preferences.
Otherwise, not much you can do...

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

VLC can decode videos larger than the screen without problems. And it's completely automatic.