Repair Freezing Issues When Playing HD Videos in VLC Player

VLC media player is usually a great choice to play most types of videos. It supports a myriad of video formats and is free to use. However, despite its advantages, you may at certain times experience issues while playing large HD quality videos. Video may freeze or it may lag compared to the audio. In other cases, the video may hang for a couple of seconds and play the same section again.

In order to resolve this problem, we’ve compiled a list of simple solutions in this article. The solutions mostly involve tweaking some of VLC’s settings, so it shouldn’t take too long for you to fix the issue. Let’s jump right in.

Solution 1: Increase File Caching

1. Open VLC Media Player
2. Click on the Tools menu and select Preferences
3. At the bottom left corner, under Show Settings, select All
4. Click on Input/Codecs settings and change the value of File Caching to 1000 or 2000 instead of 300. (The value in milliseconds)

Now check if you can play the video file without it freezing. If not, proceed to the next step.

Solution 2: Change Output settings

1. Click on Tools menu in VLC Media Player
2. Click Preferences > Video
3. Under Video Settings, in the Output section, change the value from Automatic to DirectX (Direct RAW) video output

Then save your settings and check if the video file plays without freezing. If the problem persists, proceed to the next step.

Solution 3: Skip loop filter

1. Once again, open VLC Media Player and click Tools > Preferences
2. In the bottom left corner, under Show Settings, select All
3. Go to Input/Codecs > Video Codecs > Ffmpeg
4. Change ‘Skip the loop filter for H.264 decoding’ from None to All
5. Also, double check that the Hardware decoding is set to Disable

Solution 4: Skip frames

1. Open VLC Media Player and click on Tools
2. Click Preferences > Reset Preferences and click on Ok in the confirmation box
3. Once again, click Tools > Preferences
4. Under Show Settings, select All to show advanced settings
5. Scroll down the advanced menu options and select Video; uncheck Drop late frames and Skip frames
6. Again, in the left menu, select Output modules under the Video Select Video Output module and in the drop down menu, select Direct 3D video output

Repair MOV and MP4 video files

Save your settings and try playing the video file. In most cases, one of these solutions should help you resolve the error. However, if none of these work, it is probably because the video file is corrupt. It could have gotten corrupted due to various reasons like playing the video on an incompatible media player or due to round-tripping. Whatever the reason may be, these issues can be repaired using Remo Repair MOV software.

It is capable of repairing both MP4 and MOV files. So if you are experiencing corruption issues or your VLC is not playing MP4 files, now you know how to repair them. Remo also offers a free trial, check it out today!