How to make VLC media player’s Continue playback button to stay for longer

I have tried the example video on a fast computer with a high-level NVIDIA card.

I have downloaded both MP4 versions : "High Quality (fast GPU)" and "Low Quality (slower GPU)". I use the K-Lite Mega Codec Pack.

Playing the High Quality version, the results were very good and almost identical with either Windows Media Player, VLC or MPC-HC.

However, playing the Low Quality version was impossible with Windows Media Player because of high pixelation and stuck video. The results were however good with VLC and MPC-HC.

I hazard two conclusions :

1. The Low Quality version is badly encoded in such a way that makes its playing impossible, at least with Windows Media Player (which uses K-Lite, while the others use mostly codecs that come packaged with them).

2. Your computer specs may not be up to playing such videos at that speed, and this can be either because of the video card, memory, the bus, the disk, or even all of them.

In the second case, using a good video converter may convert the videos to something you can watch.

Try and see how you can play the High Quality version (life is full of surprises).

Note that "save recently played items" setting has to be enabled in order for the feature to work.

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[...]the playback position is stored together with a list of recent file names and we cannot store them if the user does not want to keep recent items at all. Note as well that the position is only stored for the last (I think) 20 items or so.

In version 2.2.0 VLC couldn't resume playback for files started from operating system file explorer, but this appears to have been fixed in 2.2.1: https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?t=123563#p421960