VLC just released a major update. I don’t have any 4K video to test it with, but I think it was supposed to help with that. Could anyone confirm that?
I normally ignore those update messages from VLC as they appear just when I’m about to watch something.
A couple days ago I let it update and saw during install a message that mentioned enhanced 4K support.
I thought ‘cool’, lets see if it helps playing 4K77, I had a error during the update and clicked ignore,
afterwards tested 4K77, this time it didn’t stutter, it wouldn’t play at all! I figured it was the error.
I downloaded & re-installed the latest version from file and had no errors, still 4K77 wouldn’t play,
and VLC crashed. So… I rolled back to my previous version, same issue AND no h265 file would play!
Today after a clean un-install I downloaded and installed VLC v3.0, everything is back to normal.
I think I’ll try the latest version one more time, but I don’t have high hopes.
I use PowerDVD 16 to play 4K77, and it works just fine!