How to fix glitchy HD playback in VLC on Mac

What is VLC? VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.

If your VLC player on your MAC is having trouble playing HD content, this should fix it. H.264 codecs are pretty CPU intensive and VLC can't use multi-cores to decode it yet. So if your computer is dying when decoding 1080p samples from H264, do the following.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• You are going to need the newest version of VLC.
• Also, make sure you have all of the MAC OS X updates for your computer before continuing.

1. Launch your VLC player, then go and Open the preferences menu

2. Tick advanced in the lower right/left corner

3. Go to "Input/Codec" menu

4. Go to "other codecs" subcategory menu

5. Go to "FFmpeg" menu

6. Put the "skip-filter for H264″ to all

7. Restart your VLC Player and you should have no more problems

Resources

• VLC Website - Download