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VLC Player Stutters, WMP Is Fine?


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Hello!

I am using the latest (as of 01.11.2011) VLC Player and when playing some 1080p movies, it seems to stutter through some scenes. The picture freezes or becomes blocky, but the sound does carry on.

Playing the same video in WMP doesn't have this effect, the video plays perfect. I should add, I haven't changed any settings in WMP from the default installation.

Does anyone else have this issue?

Is it time to go back to WMP?

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I had that the other night too then i installed some codec packs and tried the same file in WMP as i thought it was currupt, nope played fine and even worked better. I just don't like codec packs i guess so i used VLC Portable instead, definitely something up with that tho.

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I must admit, the file did look a little better in WMP too. Maybe this was just a placebo though.

I may have to change file permissions and give WMP a try again. Since I stopped using it years ago, it does appear to have significantly improved and plays many more file types.

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VLC has its own codecs right? maybe that is what is up, their light codecs aren't optimized as well as the windows codecs? I know there is files when I have the windows codecs that will play in anything that usese them but wont play in VLC because it doesn't understand it

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Just taken a look at Media Player Classic (HC).

It seems nice, however there are a few features I probably couldn't live without:

> No controls for the playlist (IE, repeating, shuffling).

> Doesn't re-size to the file resolution when playing a video.

I'll still give it a test though but looks like I am stuck with VLC for the desktop.

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Am I right in thinking I don't need VLC if I have Media Player Classic?

I just uninstalled VLC because upon every reboot I was greeted with VLC Player just crashed (it was a plugin or something) in the Action Center of Windows 7 x64, although a siolution for it is never shown.

Some movies don't play in Media Player Classic, which is why I used VLC because generally it worked in that, is there an alternative I can download, or something?

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I must admit, the file did look a little better in WMP too. Maybe this was just a placebo though.

I may have to change file permissions and give WMP a try again. Since I stopped using it years ago, it does appear to have significantly improved and plays many more file types.

i have to say that all my videos look better in WMP. I use WMP since its already setup. I have the Shark007 codecs.. which make it run every kind of formatted vid. I guess WMP renders videos better for me because of Nvidia tools i have installed. They do something to the video and maybe VLC dont take advantage of that stuff.

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VLC isn't that great of a video player. It also uses it's own codecs, so you don't get any hardware acceleration from your video card like using WMP with the native codecs will.

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All these different players seem to have their own little quirks. I like to keep VLC around for older acquisitions that are in crappy formats (it also seems to have the only sensible use of the mouse's scroll wheel of all players). WMP is a great quality player for what it can play, but its controls can be frustrating at times. KMPlayer seems to have no better luck than MPC at anything, and comes with one of the most disgusting GUIs (and the different themes do no better) I've seen since Linux in the 90s.

I tend to recommend newbies keep two players: VLC and either MPC or WMP. Between the two, nothing should give them any trouble.

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Came across this problem yesterday. The videos played in VLC stuttered, but not in Media Player Classic.

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I installed Real Player (basic, with no fluff) and now I can download anything in the browser as a video file (even flash ads saved as .flv!). Real Player used to suck a lot, but this really does beat all the various video downloader extensions you can get for Firefox hands down!

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I installed Real Player (basic, with no fluff) and now I can download anything in the browser as a video file (even flash ads saved as .flv!). Real Player used to suck a lot, but this really does beat all the various video downloader extensions you can get for Firefox hands down!

too bad it doesn't work with 64 bit nightly ;-(

You must be joking.

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I used to love VLC but they changed it and it seems so slow these days. Now I use Universal Media Player. It has built in codecs as well if that bothers you but also built in Youtube playback. I love the UI though.

Does UMPlayer support hardware acceleration?

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