VLC vs Windows Media Player

[leech88]

Hi everyone!

In an attempt to get rid of bloatware I just downloaded VLC thinking of replacing WMP with it. It seems much faster which pleased me but then when I compared the same .mkv video file on both players I noticed quality in VLC was much worst, it seemed much more pixelated, eww!

So... can anybody come to the rescue of VLC? xP
This isn't making it stand as a nice alternative to WMP...

Oh, and I'm using WMP11 on xp, WMP is discontinued in xp that's part of the reason I'm considering a change.

[Lotesdelere]

Try to enable or disable some video options such as Overlay and/or Hardware YUV -> RGB conversions.
Also try to use another video output module.

[dumbo4711]

u should also enable a deinterlacer
like yadif 2x (in automatic mode) in vlc options
this will remove horizontal lines that will appear with some formats

and if u have a nvida gfx card u should set color range from limited (16-235) to full dynamic range (0-255) in nvidia control panel
otherwise colors on tft/lcd/plasma screens will be wrong (too light)

[VLC_help]

And if you see decoding artifacts,
http://wiki.videolan.org/WindowsFAQ-1.1 ... s_too_slow

[leech88]

thank you everyone, now it looks much better, I'm pretty happy with it. dumbo, you got it just right, I do have a nvidia gfx card anything else I should know about improving playback quality?