The other answer was posted nearly a year before the release of VideoLAN 3.0.0 (2018-02-09). According to this forum post...
Fraps doesn't work for me with vlc 3.0.x. No overlay, no recording, no screen capture.
...and my experience is the same with v3.0.16: there is no overlay and the CSV logs indicate something like 1 frame/second. I tried the workaround posted in the reply...
... I got them to work together by changing video output module in VLC to 'OpenGL video output for Windows' (Preferences > show settings: All > Video > Output modules > Video output module)
...and while that did succeed in making Fraps
's overlay appear, that alternately caused poor performance or screen artifacts.
Instead, on AlternativeTo I found a tool called FPS Monitor
that lets you monitor various system components with a customizable screen overlay. Even in trial mode I was able to use it to monitor the playback framerate in VLC
. The one thing that tripped me up, however, is that VLC media player
must be started after FPS Monitor
; it's not enough to just stop and restart video playback. Other than that, I was able to get not only numbers but a live graph of the information I was looking for (Scenes
→ Recent scenes
→ BENCHMARK
is a good preset to use). Neat.