Bad quality video on VLC

**scabini9** · February 3rd, 2019

Hi, I am new in this OS, I have installed Lubuntu on my old laptop and I had a lot of problems that I could fix thanks to the forums of the community.
Now when I want to play a movie in Full HD resolution, it plays in very bad quality. I think its a drivers issue about my videocard but I dont know how to fix it.
I would apreciate a lot if someone can help me with this problem.
Thanks for reading.

**SeijiSensei** · February 3rd, 2019

We need a lot more information to help. I'm going to ask you to open the Terminal application and type a command or two.

First, run the command "lspci" which lists everything that uses the PCI bus. You should see an entry like this

Code:

VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Whistler [Radeon HD 6730M/6770M/7690M XT]

Please report back the video device identified on your system.

Also, I'd try a different player than VLC. The best current choice is "mpv" which you can install with the command

Code:

sudo apt install mpv smplayer

I've included the GUI called SMPlayer which provides a graphical interface to mpv (and the older mplayer). Any better?

**shantiq** · February 4th, 2019

Originally Posted by scabini9

Hi, I am new in this OS, I have installed Lubuntu on my old laptop and I had a lot of problems that I could fix thanks to the forums of the community.
Now when I want to play a movie in Full HD resolution, it plays in very bad quality. I think its a drivers issue about my videocard but I dont know how to fix it.
I would apreciate a lot if someone can help me with this problem.
Thanks for reading.

VLC used to be king for video playback .... these days not so much i suggest you install mpv

sudo apt install mpv

and either play from terminal or gui it is STABLE and will unlikely give you the headaches that VLC can