[vlc] Smooth in mplayer, choppy in vlc

[Grant]

>> My camera produces 1080p 60fps videos which play back choppy on
>> mplayer and vlc on my Dell XPS13 laptop.  If I use -lavdopts threads=4
>> with mplayer, playback is smooth.  I tried increasing ffmpeg threads
>> from 0 to 4 in the vlc settings but playback is still choppy.  I'm
>> also curious if vaapi should be negating the need for threads in vlc.
>>
> I suggest you enable hardware acceleration.


My results are the same with 'vlc --avcodec-hw=vaapi'.

- Grant