Vlc Player Mac Lagging
Note: This is for VLC 2.x – if you’re using the older VLC 1.x see the original post here:https://mattgadient.com/vlc-mac-stutter-the-fix/
Short version: If you’re playing videos through VLC across the network, and if the video you’re trying to play is coming from a Windows share, it will make VLC on the Mac a little sad. And then it stutters/lags/gets_choppy/whatever_you_wanna_call_it. A slightly more detailed (and technical – your Mac isn’t “crying on the inside” by any means) description is in the link above if you’re at all interested.
- Many users have reported that one of the most common issues they face while using VLC Media Player is stuttering or jumping while playing. More specifically, the audio and video are not consistent, or they may not play simultaneously at the same time.
- In some cases, when clients have low internet bandwidth, video streams buffer badly causing lagging and freezing, but a simple tweak inside the preferences section can remedy this for the most part and in most cases result in a completely lag free streaming. VLC Player is used on almost all Operating Systems including the most popular MAC.
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The solution is to bump up the “network cache” value in VLC. However, the location moved when VLC 2.0 came about.
The good news is that it’s much easier to find than it was before. The bad news is that not everyone was finding it, so here goes:
But actually, VLC could be a great tool for how to fix audio delay in VLC itself. There are mainly two ways to fix desynchronized video and audio with VLC Media Player. The first one is using the keyboard shortcuts while the alternative way will show how to sync audio in VLC via menu step by step. The method by hotkeys: Step 1. Check the playback. If I copy the file over to my Mac's hard drive, it takes only about 5 minutes, and the video is more than 1 hour, so it really shouldn't lag, if VLC is smart enough. How can I set VLC to use a larger cache (I see Settings - Video - Show All, but don't know if Stream Output: Muxer caching is the correct setting, because setting it to 9000.
You start by going to VLC/Preferences in the top menu bar.
Click for a larger view. With the preference pane open, hit Show All as seen in the image above.
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Next…
Again, click for a larger view. Input/codecs should already be selected on the left, so scroll down almost all the way and you should eventually see the Network caching (ms) section.
In the example above, I used a value of 9000. This should take care of video stutters of up to roughly 9 seconds. Feel free to tweak the value to take care of whatever freezes/stutters you were seeing – for example if you’d get stutters of up to 4 seconds, make sure you’re using a value of at least 4000.
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It’s worth noting that there are additional caching values which may be useful, particularly if your hard drive is having trouble keeping up with the local videos you’re playing for whatever reason (for instance, if you’re doing something disk-intensive in the background). If you have a habit of pausing a video & coming back hours later only to have the video freeze as the hard drive spins up, the file/disk cache settings should help there as well, though you’d probably have to use fairly large values in that case.