Video playback is laggy and stutters

[Jsten]

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.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Please share your logs.

[Jsten]

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.

[Jsten]

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.

[mfkl]

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

[Jsten]

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?

[Lotesdelere]

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.

[Jsten]

Oh okay, there we go. Sorry about that.

https://pastebin.com/wqFQsYGj

[VLC Forums]

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

[LoganCale]

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.

[Jsten]

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.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

try to disable hardware decoding in preferences.

[panoptican]

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.

[yanismangas]

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