Subpar VLC playback? Try this

[RichardF]

From their forums:

You might have noticed a performance decrease within the last few releases or finally when updating to Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.

If you did, try this:

* Go to VLC's preferences
* Click on "All" at the bottom of the window
* Navigate to "Input/Codecs" -> "Access modules" -> "MMap"
* Activate "Use file memory mapping"
* Save the settings and restart VLC.

Afterwards, VLC should perform as expected. We will enable this setting by default in future releases of VLC for Mac OS X.


http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=65662

 

[Cave Man]

I just use Plex. It even handles Blu-ray rips without skipping a beat.

 

[nigameash]

thanks for the tip, it fixed the lags i was having earlier! yepp, i noticed a performance decrease in the past few versions too!

 

[bakerster]

this fixed my 1080p playback on a 17" mid 09 mbp. how awesome.

 

[felt.]

this fixed my 1080p playback on a 17" mid 09 mbp. how awesome.

+1

 

[Big-TDI-Guy]

Forget the 1080P - for me, VLC started staggering with new version running alongside Safari 4 - that same setting brought it back to the way things used to be.