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Every avi file I play with different versions of VLC all of a sudden play the movie with a rainbow of colors scrolling across the screen, and a miniature picture in picture of the movie randomly roaming around the screen. The miniature picture in picture of the movie doesn't seem to have the rainbow...

It does the same thing on Mac computers, plus the sound quality is not good at all, even distorted on many songs. For years I have used a Mac ap called Audion, since I hate iTunes. The problem is that I have an iPhone and need iTunes to backup and transfer files, but every time iTunes does an update...

I get the same thing. Apparently, the conversion process takes too much time, so unless it is cached, it is kind of useless to try to play via a network. I have read a few posts where users are trying to do PTP streaming, which can't work, if the speed is not even fast enough for a 1K LAN. My setup ...

My setup is a 2GH 2.6TB Linux server, with a half dozen Macs, and about the same number of Win boxes connected to it. The server is running a 1G ethernet connection, and about half of the computers also have a 1G connection. The server hosts many .avi movies which I am trying to play on the computer...

I read a topic here where someone wanted to not have VLC as his default player, which to me is insane, since VLC plays almost everything and Quicktime doesn't. My problem is the reverse, because i want VLC as the default player, and can't seem to do it. I right click on an avi or mpg file, select Ge...