And on the subject of codecs, the best codec pack out there is CCCP, if you download anything else, don’t download K-Lite codec pack, it just sucks.
That’s probably why installing K-lite had no effect, I also use VLC for everything besides high bitrate movies.
Still best thing to do is download only the codecs you really need and use.
For HD video, I use the CoreAVC codec in MPC-HC.
VLC plays 1080p Mkv files just fine for me, in fact better than MPC.
Yes, VLC will do fine with 1080p compressed movies. But for untouched rips straight from the blu-ray, which have an insanely higher bitrate than compressed movies, it will struggle.
Those .mkv files are usually compressed to a bitrate of 3mb/s - this is nothing compared to the real 40+ Gigabyte 1080p bluray quality of 45mb/s (like Mith said). I can play low bitrate .mkv files just fine, but high bitrate files are incredibly laggy on VLC.
I’d like to see VLC play the 37GB 1080P remux of Avatar smoothly!
Not likely.
Actually I think that’s what the op was trying to watch in the first place.
Game, set, match!
Sorry to bump this old thread but I just overclocked my CPU from 2.6 GHz to 3.2 GHz and increased the core voltage. I can now watch the bluray movies in VLC without lag, I guess that it did have something to do with core speeds. Wierd though considering the movies would play without overclock but not in VLC (I used MPC which was suggested in this thread). Maybe VLC just needs more CPU power.
@ Jambo
I can watch Avatar bluray in VLC now, no lag or stuttering.
The codec then using MPC is probably more optimised and uses multiple threads.