Optimizing VLC Media Player for H264 Playback

http://dexviajiboy2.blogspot.com/2011/09/dexguide-optimizing-vlc-mplayer-for.html


H.264 codecs are pretty CPU intensive and VLC can't use multi-cores to decode it yet.

So if your computer is dying when decoding 1080p samples from H264, do the following.

Open the preferences
Tick advanced in the lower right corner
Go to "Input/Codec"
Go to "other codecs" subcategory
Go to "FFmpeg"
Put the "skip-filter for H264" to all
Restart VLC

Go to Tools > Preferences > Input & Codecs Settings > then Make sure

"Skip H.264 in-loop deblocking filter" is set to All

Then select "Show setting" at the bottom right corner of the Window click on All it should show "Advance settings" now

Click on Advanced make sure on the "Performance options" the following are selected
"Allow only one running instance"
"One instance when started from file"
"Increase the priority of the process"
Now click on "Input / Codecs" -> "Video codecs"

Click on FFmpeg make sure the following is selected
"Hurry up"
"Allow speed tricks"
"Quality level" is rd

Then click on x264 on "H.264 profile" select "main"

Thats it Hope this works for you too!