How do I enable hardware acceleration in VLC?
Select Preferences. Or just hit Ctrl + P to launch Simple Preferences. Go to the Input / Codecs tab. Change Hardware-accelerated decoding to Automatic.
Does VLC use hardware acceleration?
VLC media player features GPU hardware acceleration for hardware decoding on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS operating systems.
What happens if I turn on hardware acceleration?
Using hardware acceleration can be quite useful for any computer user. The term refers to boosting your PC’s performance. When you have hardware acceleration turned on, certain tasks become noticeably faster. This results in programs and video games performing better.
Is it better to turn on hardware acceleration?
Unless you’re facing an issue that you know is because of hardware acceleration, you shouldn’t turn off hardware acceleration. It’ll generally do more good than harm, but when you see it is causing you more harm instead, that’s when you should turn it off for that one specific app.
How does hardware acceleration work?
Hardware acceleration refers to the process by which an application will offload certain computing tasks onto specialized hardware components within the system, enabling greater efficiency than is possible in software running on a general-purpose CPU alone.
How do I enable hardware acceleration on my VLC player?
VLC HowTo/Hardware acceleration. This is a simpler guide than the page VLC GPU Decoding, with fewer steps. From the menu toolbar select Tools → Preferences → Input & Codecs → Codecs → Hardware-accelerated decoding. To disable, select Disable. To re-enable, select Automatic (unless a particular hardware acceleration method is desired).
How do I enable/disable GPU decoding in VLC?
This is a simpler guide than the page VLC GPU Decoding, with fewer steps. From the menu toolbar select Tools → Preferences → Input & Codecs → Codecs → Hardware-accelerated decoding. To disable, select Disable. To re-enable, select Automatic (unless a particular hardware acceleration method is desired).
What video codecs does VLC Support?
VLC’s wiki lists the video codecs it can accelerate. On Windows, H.264, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, WMV3, and VC-1 are all hardware accelerated. On a Mac, only H.264 is hardware accelerated. Videos that aren’t hardware accelerated will play normally; VLC will just use your CPU and you won’t get any battery life improvement.
How do I re-enable automatic playback on my VLC player?
To re-enable, select Automatic (unless a particular hardware acceleration method is desired). Remember to press Save to save VLC settings and restart VLC after that to make sure changes are enabled. This page is part of the informal VLC Support Guide.