VLC playback blocky/pixelated?

geoffrey2008 · Feb 1, 2009

Anyone else notice this with the latest VLC version?

I loaded up a regular AVI 700MB rip and it looks blocky and slightly pixelated.

Loaded up in XP and it looked fine. Video drivers are up to date and all the settings are the same.

Anyone?

Win7User · Feb 1, 2009

Yes, you are right. Plus, to compare I opened a file in WMP, and then when I launched VLC, my computer crashed.

driecken · Mar 1, 2009

geoffrey2008 said:
Anyone else notice this with the latest VLC version?

I loaded up a regular AVI 700MB rip and it looks blocky and slightly pixelated.

Loaded up in XP and it looked fine. Video drivers are up to date and all the settings are the same.

Anyone?

I have noticed that same problem with vlc, when i open a movie its fine, then when i maximize to full screen it becomes grainy, and pixelated.

All of the so called fixes I have tried have no effect (removing output display, removing hardware acceleration).

I have all of the drivers up to date for my video card etc.

Windows Media Player seems to play the same files perfectly full screen, what gives?

Forman · Mar 1, 2009

I had the same problem.

I tried to apply the default settings and I tried to upgrade to latest version, but no luck. I think its the built in codecs that gets messed up, because none of the post-processing features seems to work/be tweaked when it happens.

Since then I have been using MPC-HC with the MpcVideoDec.ax codec, and lets just say I dont miss VLC.
MPC with this codec has much better IQ and less CPU load since MPC-HS supports UVD/PureVideo.

driecken · Mar 1, 2009

Forman said:
I had the same problem.

I tried to apply the default settings and I tried to upgrade to latest version, but no luck. I think its the built in codecs that gets messed up, because none of the post-processing features seems to work/be tweaked when it happens.

Since then I have been using MPC-HC with the MpcVideoDec.ax codec, and lets just say I dont miss VLC.
MPC with this codec has much better IQ and less CPU load since MPC-HS supports UVD/PureVideo.

I just went ahead and reformatted today, switched back to vista.

No problems with video playback in vlc using Vista/32/ultimate...

WMP seemed to play .mkv and other files fine after I did a combined codec pack install on it in W 7, that sufficed until I reformatted but I noticed WMP doesn't handle a wealth of files very well.

Mplayer, and classic media player would work as viable alternatives to .vlc for anyone interested.

Hopefully the issue gets resolved, but I need a more stable os for my everyday functions, I just wanted to see how 7 beta would run most of them.

VLC was really the only thing I encountered problems with, and games.

angryman · Mar 2, 2009

No problem with VLC here. I did notice it takes a second for the video to show on screen, other then that plays ok

Midnight · May 29, 2009

Turn on Aero Theme. Seems VLC does not enable 3D mode properly or soemthing, with Aero turned off it was not using 3D mode for me.

thundermonkey · May 29, 2009

Dell Inspiron 1520 here, notice the pixelated VLC playback too. Very smoth edges in WMP, as it should look. I'll try out KMplayer maybe and see if there's any difference.

I thought it was just me and I ended up going back to Vista drivers, but it didn't help a thing. Any other players you guys suggest that works fine? Though I guess it depends on hardware.

swarfega · May 31, 2009

That slows my system down to a complete crawl. I really dont know what people see in VLC, WMP works much better.

John Henry · May 31, 2009

swarfega said:
That slows my system down to a complete crawl. I really dont know what people see in VLC, WMP works much better.

it's simple. vlc uses very few resources and playbacks almost all the known video/audio formats without installing additional codecs.

driecken · May 31, 2009

I just installed the 64 bit RC of 7 today, everything is great except this problem persists in vlc.

Whatever file type I play as far as video, when I go full screen it becomes grid lined, as in vertical and horizontal lines criss crossing the video.

Switching to open gl output seems to fix this, however the theme switches from aero to basic, and playback quality seems to diminish some.

Wondering if this is caused from hardware rendering or some problem with the new drivers.

driecken · May 31, 2009

Anyone notice there are similar problems with the grainy lines in WMP when attempting to play .mkv files?

smarteyeball · May 31, 2009

swarfega said:
That slows my system down to a complete crawl. I really dont know what people see in VLC, WMP works much better.

John Henry said:
it's simple. vlc uses very few resources and playbacks almost all the known video/audio formats without installing additional codecs.

What he said^^^

Also pressing the spacebar to play/pause is much more convenient than the tiny button on my keyboard. Plus VLC no longer plays my DVD's yet WMP now does

However, I find that the picture quality with WMP is more superior out of the box than VLC.

Both players have there good and bad points. That's why I use both

John Henry · Jun 1, 2009

driecken said:
Anyone notice there are similar problems with the grainy lines in WMP when attempting to play .mkv files?

where did you download the MKV codec for WMP 64bit?
ù

EDIT: i got them to work with Win7codecs x64 but i noticed that MKV only works using x64 WMP and not x32 ?

smarteyeball said:
What he said^^^ Also pressing the spacebar to play/pause is much more convenient than the tiny button on my keyboard. Plus VLC no longer plays my DVD's yet WMP now does

However, I find that the picture quality with WMP is more superior out of the box than VLC.

Both players have there good and bad points. That's why I use both

i'm pretty sure soon VLC will fix that problem. VLC 1.0 RC2 is out already.

John Henry · Jun 1, 2009

double post sorry

smarteyeball · Jun 1, 2009

John Henry said:
i'm pretty sure soon VLC will fix that problem. VLC 1.0 RC2 is out already.

I'll have to give it a go. It only appeared with RC1. Thanks for the heads up.

swarfega · Jun 1, 2009

You can download rc2 from: Index of /build/win32/branch-20090601-0005

oenone · Jun 4, 2009

i too experience pixelation in vlc player

and to add more problem whennever i activate spatializer in audio effects my pc crashes

The Sly Assassin · Jun 5, 2009

I find that BOTH WMP and VLC play standard 700mb AVI files all stuffed up and pixilated in full screen mode, terribly anoying

garbanzo · Jun 5, 2009

despite its popularity and ease of use, VLC is not a very good player. its internal filters are definitely not the best available, and it tends to smooth the picture too much, causing apparent pixelation for most videos.

for a superior all-in-one solution, try KMplayer. for the best possible video playback (xvid), just install the CCCP codec pack, and use Media Player Classic which comes with it.

if you're dealing with videos encoded with H.264, it's best to purchase CoreAVC and use that with MPC (it's cheap).

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