When watching videos in VLC on Ubuntu 14.10, it flickers

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I have Ubuntu 14.10. When watching videos full screen with VLC the video flickers. Only on full screen. And it's not happening on other players (the default player and smplayer). How to fix this?

I have Nvidia graphics.


I had similar problem. Changing hardware-accelerated decoding helped.
Go to Tools > Preferences > Input/Codecs.
Try different options in hardware-accelerated decoding.
I first tried to disable it and it stopped flickering right away.
However I noticed the video got frozen really quick (not that noticeable) couple times, so, the next option I tried worked perfectly: VA-API video decoder via DRM.

PS: to be sure that changes take effect, I restarted the player after saving the changed option

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