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Bummer. Well if it's a frequent complaint, why is the volume set so high? It seems to be higher than "normal." Or why not use decent granularity on the volume, e.g. 1% steps like Windows or WMP? No, wait. The volume slider DOES have more granularity if I click & drag it. I was using th...

VLC seems to play much louder than other audio devices on my Vista system. I normally run my Windows overall volume control at 50, and most audio/video players work well with that. I have to turn the VLC volume down around 12-25% to get the same volume. That would be OK, except the volume granularit...

Wonder why you don't get it? Are you running Vista?

I'd be willing to help you test a fix if you want to try running it in my environment.

No, because the FAQ page said to use DirectX3D for Vista. OK, I tried them. OpenGL was better but not as good as WMP's native mode. WinGDI and DirectX were no better than the default settings. I really don't care if OpenGL disables Aero, but why does VLC have to disable Aero to get worse results tha...

Nope, I don't see any significant difference. Here's a pic that illustrates the difference. I grabbed a piece of a scene (an eyeball of an animated character) scaled to full-screen on my 1680x1050 monitor. WMP scales it pretty nicely -- I'm pretty sure the edge effects are part of the image, not edg...

Cool. Then I will not install the driver. Thanks!

Any suggestions for the scaling issues?

I see. OK, am I likely to encounter wmas frequently? I.e. should I just use MPC to play these particular clips and assume I won't see wmas very often? Or is it worth it to go install DMO? (Presumably at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/324290 ?)

Thanks!
Gary

I just installed VLC 1.0.0. While it seems to work fine for many things, I have hit two issues: The scaler seems to be terrible. I played a 720x480 clip ripped from a DVD, scaled to fullscreen on my 1680x1050 screen. The image was very blocky with lots of artifacts, as if it was just stretched with ...