VLC playback blocky/pixelated?

ShazaM, don't use ffdshow for audio. it's terrible at normalizing.

instead, install ac3filter. make sure you add it in your player and turn off ffdshow's audio filter.

you'll have to mess with the settings a bit - pump up the Master Gains, and maybe give Voice a boost. you'll end up with much crisper, bolder audio than ffdshow can ever provide.
 

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I got MPC Star and I set up AC3 Filter and I'm digging it so far. But I am still getting pixelated playback even with MPC... what the hell do I need to do to get rid of this pixelation problem?

I installed BS.Player for the time being and now it somehow installed FFDSHOW AUDIO and I don't know how to disable it. Any ideas?
 
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i've never heard of mpc star, but it looks fishy. you really only need a few filters and a basic player to get excellent results with any video.

i use Media Player Classic - Home Cinema edition with:
CoreAVC
ffdshow
AC3Filter
Quicktime Alternative
Real Alternative

its enough to play everything, and i have never had any quality issues.

this shot is using MPC-HC on Windows 7. output is set to VMR9 Renderless. active filter is CoreAVC. quality, as you can see, is fantastic.
 

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Nevermind on all of what I previously wrote. I'm sticking to BS.Player, its playing everything now. Or at least I hope it is. I'm tired of playing with this.
 
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I heard some negative comments expressed about K-lite in this thread. I'm no expert on this stuff but I use K-lite for video (not audio) with MPC HC and it's been working extremely well for me on 7. If it's bloated (and I'm not saying it isn't), I don't seem to notice any ill effects from it. It plays everything I throw at it and I usually get great quality and sound. When I need to add subs and change sych and stuff like that, it's easy to work with. Also the UI for MPC HC is pretty good, imo. YMMV, of course.

To keep K-Lite from "wrecking havoc," just pay attention to not allowing it take over all file associations when installing it. I uncheck the audio associations as I use other apps (mostly F2k) to play audio files.
 

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harpua, did you actually go into the filters section in MPC, disable its internal filters, and add the external filters that k-lite installed? if not, your codec pack is just taking up space :)

i think the reason some people don't like it is because it's far more than the average person needs. why install codecs for formats you will rarely if ever use? MPC alone covers most things, and for more quality/control you can throw in something like ffdshow or ac3filter. but k-lite - it's just overkill.
 

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Easy fix

I found quite easy solution for the bug.

Since internal codecs work fine, you just have to change the unsupported renderer.

Go to VLC settings (simple mode). Click Video tab and change the Output to OpenGL.

Works fine on my 7 (32-bit RTM).;)
 

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I have some, but not all, internal filters disabled.

What I like about K-lite is that just by downloading their "pack" with it's frequent updates, I know that everything I'm using (MPC-HC, FFD show, various codecs, etc.) are always kept up to date with the latest versions without my having to worry about each separate component. For example, I just tried to download the latest stand alone version of MPC-HC and I saw that that available version was an earlier build than what I got through installing the latest K-lite update.

I'm not disputing anything you are saying. I'm just saying for me, the main advantage of K-lite seems to be its integration and that just by simply downloading K-lite and keeping it up to date, it takes care of keeping all the various sub components including ffdshow & MPC-HC, as well as all the codecs/filters up to date. And there are frequent updates to MPC and ffdshow among other things.

And if I should ever happen to need any of the more esoteric codecs it installs, they are there and they don't really take up very much space (56.8 mb, including ffd show, MPC-HC, filters, real alternative, etc., about half of which is just MPC and ffd show.)
 

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temp23 said:
I found quite easy solution for the bug.

Since internal codecs work fine, you just have to change the unsupported renderer.

Go to VLC settings (simple mode). Click Video tab and change the Output to OpenGL.

Works fine on my 7 (32-bit RTM).;)
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That gets rid of the pixelation, however the image quality produced is far inferior to that of MPC or BS.Player. Which use DirectX instead.
 

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nohelmets said:
K-Lite is garbage, as all codec packs are.

I'm still having this problem with VLC 1.0.1. Although now, changing the output to DirectX doesn't fix the pixelation like it did in previous versions.

I'm getting tired of messing with it as well. Gonna be trying out BS Player.
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BS.Player PRO is the only thing that has worked for me. I got tired of messing with Codecs so I just ended up installing AC3Filter and I configured it to run with BS.Player and now everything works flawlessly :)

PM me if you want a PRO license for BS.Player. A friend of mine works in their testing team and all of them get lifetime PRO keys, for free.
 

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same problem here .. pixelated screen but i used for video output openGL and it worked fine. DirectX video output dont solve problem just openGL... Anyway one more thing. The video playback on win7 is a slight brighter then on windows XP with same monitor calibration. It is getting on my nerves bc the black is not black but gray and i did calibrate all the same as on my xp... This only occure when im playing movies... the colors on win7 are ok no problem there... plz anybody know what is the problem?
 

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Since I believe it's due to a chance in some MS API or driver, was it fixed in the latest Win 7 version? Does it happen with all grafic cards or only with some Ati ones? I have Win 7 build 7100 and ATI 2400 card and pixelation happens with all renderers in all DirectShow applications except EVR renderer which works fine. VLC does not rely on DirectShow I think so the problem must be DirectX related.
 

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USE OPENGL OUTPUT !!! opengl output works best for me. im running win7 64 bit and all video players show pixelated video - wmp, lightalloy, default vlc. directx output also does the trick but it requires that popy color scheme changes.

i have win7 64bit RTM + ati 4870. tried reinstaling my samsung t220 drivers, tweaking monitor setting - not efect on pixelation.
 

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Like i said just use opengl or dont use VLC like i give up since my defoult sistem is Windows 7... it seems the newest versions of vlc are not so good even on my macintosh the new version of vlc is buggy...
I just use now WMP it is good , never use it before in my life but now i do... if wmp player dont do the job i get BS player ..that is all ...
 

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I use GOM player and don't have any problems.Does everything vlc does.
 
I switched to Open GL in VLC and use either EVR or a custom presenter in dshow apps. Still it would be good to know what's causing the issue, does it happen only with certain hardware? Does it only happen with certain Win 7 builds? Please post your specs! Mine:

Win 7, build 7100, 32 bit
Ati 2400

@Bloop: We already know the problem don't occur on XP...
 

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I had a problem with vlc on build 6xxx i really dont remember my first build , and on win 7100 RC and now on Win RTM 7600... No difference in any of them ... My specs are
amd x2 athlon 4000+
ati 4850 ...
Well ill be checking out this problem on my macintosh where it is installed win 7100 and have nvidia 8800gt graphic to see if there is a problem too ...
 

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did you change to opengl as suggested in previous posts?
 

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I was having bad pixelation problems under 7 final x64 with ZoomPlayer / FFDShow / AC3Filter until I switched the renderer from VMR9 to EVR.I also had good results enabling 'Resize & Aspect' in FFDShow to 'Resize to screen resolution' whilst sticking with VMR9, but with higher CPU usage.
 

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Same here with VLC 1.0, however changing the output to "OpenGL" (as suggested by the VLC forum), it's so much better, but still not perfect as before like in XP SP3!
 

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