4K Media Player Drivers By Using

For instance, Nvidia users can refer Nvidia Update from here. 7. Convert to compress 4K UHD videos Even when your computer meets the intensive graphics and processor requirement, large-sized 4K videos may not play in VLC.

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You have all the latest cameras DSLRs, action cameras, drone cameras or even mobile phones supporting 4K resolution.

The 4K UHD video content is gradually making inroads into TV channels and streaming services such as Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Sling TV, and Hulu etc.

In such a scenario, you would want your highly compatible and thus favorite VLC Player to play all your 4K movies and videos.

However, several VLC users complain that they cannot play 4K ultra HD videos in the media player, with lagging and stuttering reported as common issues.

So here, we bring the various methods you can use to fix VLC 4K lag and play high definition videos in the media player.

Methods to play 4K ultra HD videos in VLC Media Player Update VLC Media player Increase Cache Value Change Video Output Settings Disable Hardware-accelerated Decoding Change Skip H.264 in-loop Deblocking Filter Setting Update Graphics Card Drivers Convert to compress 4K UHD videos Repair corrupt 4K UHD videos 1.

Update VLC Media player The VLC Media Player, in its latest version 3.0, comes with better support and capabilities for playing 4K UHD videos.

Increase Cache Value This method works when your 4K UHD videos stutter or lag in VLC Media Player.

Note: If you do not find Cache option in your VLC Player, update it.

Steps to increase Cache Value in VLC Media Player: Open Tools Preferences In Show settings, select the All option Figure: Show settings option in Preferences window In Advanced settings, click Input Codecs Under the Advanced heading, change the value of File caching (ms) from 300 to a higher value like 10,000 or 20,000.

Tip: you can also change Network caching (ms) and Disc caching (ms) to higher values and check which one setting works best to fix 4K videos issues.

Change Video Output Settings For many users, switching the video output to DirectX DirectDraw or OpenGL makes the 4K HD videos playable in VLC Media Player.

Steps to change Video Output settings in VLC Player: Click on Tools Preferences Video Under Video Settings in Output, change Automatic to DirectX (DirectDraw) video output.

Click Save 4. Disable Hardware-accelerated Decoding With hardware accelerated decoding, the task of playing certain videos (usually H.264 MP4 videos) is taken off from CPU and handed over to GPU of your computer.

VLC Media Player can use computers GPU to accelerate decoding of some type of video codec streams.

If you are facing video problem in playing any 4k video file in VLC, try once by disabling the hardware-accelerated decoding.

Steps to disable hardware-accelerated decoding: Open VLC Media Player.

Click on Tool Preference Input Click on box across the Hardware-accelerated Decoding option and choose Disable.

Figure: Hardware-accelerated Decoding option Click Save Next restart VLC Player and play 4K video.

Change Skip H.264 in-loop Deblocking Filter Setting One way to fix video lagging while playing high-definition video files in VLC is by changing skip h.264 in-loop deblocking filter setting to All.

Although this will lower the video quality but make the playback smooth.

Steps to change skip h.264 in-loop deblocking filter: Open VLC Media Player.

4K Media Player Drivers By Using

Update Graphics Card Drivers You can update graphics card drivers by using Windows Update feature.

Click on Settings Update and Security and click Check for Updates button.

This will automatically perform regular Windows Updates and also check for new drivers.

Figure: Check for updates in Windows update window You can directly update drivers by visiting the manufacturers website and follow the graphic card driver update guide.

For instance, Nvidia users can refer Nvidia Update from here.

Convert to compress 4K UHD videos Even when your computer meets the intensive graphics and processor requirement, large-sized 4K videos may not play in VLC.

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