So, to fix this video freezing issue try a combination of these methods till the video plays smoothly: Increase Cache ValuesĮven when playing an offline video, VLC needs to cache it. Make some changes in the video FFmpeg codec also seems to help. The other thing that improves HD video frame rate is switching the video output to DirectX DirectDraw or OpenGL. We can increase the cache to ensure that the videos play smoothly. VLC needs to cache the video in the player itself while playing. It doesn’t matter whether the videos are being played locally from a hard drive or from a network location. The basic idea is to increase the number of seconds videos are cached. If you have to play movie files that take up large GBs of space there are a couple of things we can do. There isn’t a single or perfect solution to fixing the choppy videos. Fortunately, there are a number of ways that you can try to fix the video lag.

This is an error that is not so rare to the users of VLC. The video might hang a few seconds and loop around the same point again. The HD video freezes and skips a few frames while the audio plays perfectly. When high definition videos of large sizes are opened in VLC Media Player- the HD video doesn’t play perfectly at all times.

Video scrubbing in vlc media player