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    .MKV HD playback issue.

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by Lethal Lottery, Jun 19, 2009.

  1. Lethal Lottery

    Lethal Lottery Notebook Betrayer

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    VLC player is lagging when seeking but otherwise plays perfectly. If this is normal for my config, what is the minimum hardware specs I would need on mac for it to be flawless?
     
    Lethal Lottery, Jun 19, 2009
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    Have you tried using another media player like Mplayer extended?
     
    FidyYuan, Jun 19, 2009
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  3. Chris27

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    1) Quit using VLC
    2) Use Mplayer extended
    2.5) for high-bitrate 1080p files use Plex
     
    Chris27, Jun 19, 2009
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    another vote for Plex
     
    dlhuss, Jun 20, 2009
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  5. Lethal Lottery

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    Wow I love this forum. Should I still use VLC for SD files? Mplayer looks a lot better so far. My MKV clips are playing flawless and I can seek around randomly with no lag/glitching. Thanks! + 1 to all.
     
    Lethal Lottery, Jun 20, 2009
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    VLC is really bad for MKV's on OSX, Windows, and Linux. Stay away from VLC.
     
    pacmandelight, Jun 20, 2009
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    Funny, I use VLC for mkv's consistently on Windows XP with no trouble, and that's on my three year old Dell.
     
    Paul, Jun 20, 2009
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    I've never had any problems playing back HD .mkv h264 encoded files with VLC. Perhaps it has something to do with the settings or something.
     
    Budding, Jun 20, 2009
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    I've also noticed that on some h264 files, m4, 720p files VLC on Mac lags and stutters when I fast foward using the arrow keys. However, using Mplayer it is perfectly fine, no lag, stuttering or delay, or picture messing up for a split second.

    On Windows GOM PLayer was my main media player and it was awesome, also used VLC on windows and did not have any of these lag/stuttering/image issues with the higher quality vid files like it did on mac. Although VLC is tons better than Quicktime. Hopefully Quicktime X will be something like GOM Player.
     
    MKang25, Jun 20, 2009
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