VLC also, when in full screen mode, tends to be quite laggy in terms of showing the control bar when I move the mouse. What ought to show as a smooth motion shows as a series of jerks, as if only hal the expected frames were playing.Ĭursor motion and use of other programs on the normal screen or the HDMI monitor are unaffected and as smooth as normal. I am no longer getting the grey frames and freezes I was on my old failing hard-drive, but I am getting a situation where video (especially when displaying on a larger HDMI connected monitor rather than the laptop's own screen) feels jerky, as if the frame rate is running slightly lower than it should be and some frames are being dropped to make up for this. I've upgraded to Mint 21 MATE but am finding VLC (the 3.0.16 'Vetinari' version which comes by default in the apt-get repositories) is behaving sluggishly. NOTE : libdvdcss2 is required by vlc,so if you haven’t installed the restricted package already then this link help you(it is written for Ubuntu but I think it will also work for Linux Mint) – Playing Encrypted DVD on Ubuntu. Open the terminal and enter(also enter password,if prompted) the command(s) given below – sudo apt-get install vlc vlc-plugin-pulse mozilla-plugin-vlc >Then click on Apply button and wait for the installation to complete. >Search for ‘vlc’ and select the package for installation(using check box) You can install either from the package manager or from the command line.

The source code of the vlc player is available freely under GNU GPL license, so it means that you can’t only play the media files but also with the vlc itself. So vlc player is a ‘must have Apps’ for all computer users – beginners as well as advanced. VLC player is known as ‘All in One’ media player, because it can play all the common media file – audio as well as video. it is free,open source and cross-platform(Available for all the common operating system). VLC Media Player has been developed/maintained under Video LAN Project. That’s why this post will explain(specially written for beginner users, probably who have just migrated from windows based operating system to Linux based distribution or Linux Mint) about how to install vlc media player(which is the most popular media player) on Linux Mint 10/9. Linux Mint has a media player installed by default but it’s not sufficient for playing all formats. Linux Mint 10(code named as Julia) has just launched(a week ago).

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