Cannot Play HD Video

Support & Help Requests Raspberry Pi
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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

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tomxplayer? :wink: Tomxplayer: The Raspberry Pi Video Player

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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

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VLC sometimes does not like hardware acceleration. I have had problems in the past with it on W7 & Mate.
Just a thought.

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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. :yum:

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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?

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Thanks for the help but my videos are not using those codecs.