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Force GPU Acceleration in VLC [Quicktip]

Editorial Team | September 13, 2013 | Multimedia, Tips, Tricks |

VLC is the most popular media player and I am a big fan of it. It is great for playing almost any audio/video file with any format and allows support for extension such as vlsub, which allows you to download subtitles from within the VLC media player.

The only issue I had with VLC was that it was not using my GPU. I have a 2 GB Nvidia graphic card in my laptop, but VLC was not making use of it. This is when I tried to force GPU acceleration in VLC, and below is how to do the same.

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Force GPU Acceleration in VLC

  1. Open VLC media player.
  2. From the above navigation menu, select “Tools > Preferences“
  3. Force-VLC-to-use-GPU
  4. Now in the window that pops-up, select “Input & Codecs” from the left navigation and then check the box that says “Use GPU accelerated decoding“.
  5. VLC-GPU-Acceleration
  6. Hit the “Save” button.
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Discussions

  1. Harshil Trivedi
    September 13, 2013 at 10:08

    What is this GPU? and How does it works?

    Reply
    • Hemant Aggarwal
      September 13, 2013 at 16:57

      A GPU is a Graphics Processing Unit. For complete information, read this article

      Reply

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