Fix lag with HD video on VLC

On my Ubuntu machine this is what i did for totem.
I went to usr/share/applications and clicked on multimedia selector,From there you click video and than change then
change the setting to x11 or something to that nature.

This worked fairly well for me in Ubuntu,The issue is that Crunch doesnt have a multimedia selector installed.
I think its a gnome thing.

Ive done all sorts of things to get VLC to work without flickering,Skip loop filter,Increasing the file cache
changing from default to x11 and its helped,But it hasnt fixed it.Every time theres a fast paced action scene,thats when it ripples,or tears(horizontal line appears).

So this is what ive done,I set my VLC to play h264 720p movies the best,Smaller avi movies still flicker.
I installed Xine-ui player,This plays avi much better for some reason.
And i installed Totem-Gstreamer.I have found this to be hit or miss.

AMD Phenom Quad core Ati Vision graphics 4 gigs ddr3 and an LED screen.
and the flickering annoys the hell out of me.
In my windows 7 side,Movies play clear and clean.So im hoping for a future update or an upgraded VLC player
in the future.

On my Acer Aspire one D255,led screen,ati vision graphics ,but using standard vga driver and I have none of these issues.
I was able to do the skip loop in VLC and change the default to x11 and it plays most 720p movies without a glitch.

On my Quadcore,I installed the fglrx driver thinking it would help over the standard vga,But no go,Its the same.

LOL

I just juggle media players to find the one that plays the best,,   lol

Thanks for this tip for vlc i had some lags before on videos

The good news is that VLC isn't the only media player for *nix.

While the above adjustments to VLC do also make a difference here, VLC simply cannot perform as well as Mplayer multi-thread.  For example, on my hardware VLC cannot play Sintel.mp4 2048 x 872 without screen tearing while mplayer-mt can.  I can even leave the laptop on 'power saver' mode and still have excellent HD video playback
If you have more than 1 core try it and see.  Available in the Debian Multimedia repo.

My hardware:
Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual  CPU  T2390  @ 1.86GHz
3G RAM
Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller

As you can see the graphics card is integrated Intel graphics - hardly known for performance yet it is certainly possible to watch HD video quite smoothly under Linux.

*Note You must call mplayer-mt (not just mplayer) so ff you use Smplayer be sure to set the mplayer executable as mplayer-mt.