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VLC Choppy Picture

Posted by Wes on September 20, 2007 | 10 comments

Choppy picture occurs when VLC does not cache enough of the video ahead of time. Increasing the file cache is essential for anyone who watches videos or listens to music over a network share (Samba, NFS).

Increase the file cache value between 1000-5000 ms, this will allow VLC to cache more video. This will prevent choppy video and increases the playback smoothness.

Change the following preference in VLC: Input / Codecs | Access Modules | File | (click Show Settings : All) | Caching value in ms.

vlc file cache preference

Comments

on July 2nd, 2010 Anonymous (not verified) said:

This has still not worked for me. Anything else I should try?

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on June 18th, 2010 dradmin said:

Your Welcome,

I am glad my article helped you out.

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on June 18th, 2010 JR (not verified) said:

Thanx,

This worked great. I am running Windows 7 on an older comp. and this worked great. Thanks for the tip...I'm running 9.10 Ubuntu on a laptop I'll try it there now.

JR

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on December 22nd, 2009 dradmin said:

In the new version of VLC, choose show setting all

Goto Tools->Preferences, on the bottom, choose "show settings" all. The rest of the menus are the same.

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on December 22nd, 2009 Anonymous (not verified) said:

What version is this VLC player because I have the newer version and it doesn't have advanced options..

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on December 9th, 2009 machina (not verified) said:

Worked perfectly. Thanks!

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on October 22nd, 2009 DudeSnake (not verified) said:

Thanks man, this seems to have stopped my VLC from halting and skipping. Sweet!

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on August 16th, 2009 Anonymous (not verified) said:

great, this worked

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on July 9th, 2009 nubalicious (not verified) said:

have to restart VLC post settings-modification in order for changes to take effect.

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on July 2nd, 2010 Anonymous (not verified) said:

How do I do this?

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