[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
>>
>> Maybe the video output drive? XV, OpenGL etc...
>
>
> Actually, if I disable audio in vlc, playback is smooth.  Why would
> audio bog things down so much for vlc?


I'm having this issue even with the latest vlc from git.  Any ideas?

- Grant