Hi everyone
I’ve got a new RPi3 and a new install of Ubuntu Mate (16.04.2).
I’ve enabled hardware acceleration by following the instruction “To enable hardware accelerated video playback in VLC go to Tools -> Preferences -> Video and select OpenMax IL.”
The video still appears to stutter and falls behind the audio stream.
Any ideas on how to fix this?
Thanks
re: hardware accelerated video - you may need appropriate pi codecs as well for mpeg2 and vc1 (the pi hardware won’t be activated for hardware acceleration for those formats unless you do)
Derek
VLC sometimes does not like hardware acceleration. I have had problems in the past with it on W7 & Mate.
Just a thought.
I don’t know if it’s in the repo for pi but Qmplay2 supports video acceleration and can be enabled.
https://github.com/zaps166/QMPlay2/blob/master/README.md.
It can play youtube videos as well. It has a better performance than VLC on x86. One fellow played videos on a pci graphics card. That slot is not very fast. 
I do have omxplayer working from the termnial so I’ll try tomxplayer. However from what I read VLC should be able to play as well.
Does anyone have VLC running well on PI3?
Thanks for the help but my videos are not using those codecs.
