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HD videos don't play smoothly High-definition (HD) video is increasingly common on our TVs and on the internet, and many video downloads now come in the HD MKV format. You can play MKV

video files in VLC, but the format uses a lot of memory, and you may find that your video lags and stutters as it plays.

You can fix this by tweaking VLC’s settings. Go to Tools, Preferences, then select All at the bottom left of the Simple Preferences window. This changes the name of the window to Advanced Preferences and provides a list of options in a pane on the left. Click the arrow next to ‘Input / Codecs’, click the arrow next to ‘Video codecs’ and then click ‘FFmpeg’. In the right-hand pane, click the dropdown menu next to ‘Skip the loop filter for H.264 decoding’, then click All.