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I recently played around with a new Sony LCD TV that supported streaming video and audio files from PC's on the same network by means of the DLNA protocol. I also noticed how most of the software for doing this is utter crap with awful GUI's and dysfunctional options. Basically everything but XBMC i...

I would very much like to see the download statistics page again, I want to quote the numbers in an academic paper. Is it alive somewhere?
Also would be interesting to follow 1.1 adoption..

You may want to close this ticket http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/3487 and create a new one about snapshot.

The .jpg snapshot is free of pixellation. (but has jpg artifacts obviously)

VLC 1.1 default settings (cleared pref's and cache). Printscreen pasted into photoshop and saved as png (This is how I see it during playback): http://i966.photobucket.com/albums/ae147/napx/11_vlc_printscreen_screenshot.png Snapshot using VLC's snapshot tool: http://i966.photobucket.com/albums/ae147...

Problem is no longer there in VLC 1.1
Except when I take a snapshot in VLC.. "Print Screen" screenshot does not show problem either..

Update:
Nvidia drivers 257.21 x64 Windows 7

Problem remains with Output modes "Default", "Windows GDI", "OpenGL", "DirectX3D".

Output mode "DirectX" does not have the problem! However this disables Windows Aero.

http://www.remlab.net/op/vlc-1.0.6.shtml "There used to be developers and packagers doing VLC for Windows as part of, or in connection with their day job. Unfortunately, they both quit the project several years ago. The VideoLAN project still supports Windows thanks to the efforts of several vo...

This should solve it: http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=72889&p=240603&hilit=YUV#p240603 "Tools -> Preferences... (set Show Settings to All) and then choosing Video -> Output modules -> DirectX and disable Use hardware YUV -> RGB conversions (save and restart after that...

Tried that already (and again now). Does not solve it.

I have "Use hardware YUV>RGB conversions" disabled in VLC, the problem persists. Is this expected?

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I see on trac that the issue is still not resolved. I have a tidbit of new information for you. I notice similar pixelation with red colors in flash videos on sites like The Onion too. The problem is not as bad as in VLC with the Onion vidoes, but I assume it's because the videos are way more compre...

Here goes: http://www.webmproject.org/ Google just gave us the VP8 codec open-sourced and free-licensed. They chose to pair it with ogg vorbis for audio and put it in a restricted version of matroska container they are calling "webm". The quality at the moment looks like somewhere between ...

Decoder source code is from FFMPEG, but it uses DXVA API to do the decoding steps. So, the decoding is done by ffmpeg code, but it uses the GPU instead of the CPU? I was under the impression that DXVA was a decoder embedded to the video card, and the player's decoder wasn't used at all. No, decodin...

With rumors that Google will be open-sourcing the VP8 codec and patents they acquired, I think the HTML5 video impasse will start to be resolved in 1-3 months with future browser versions and changes to websites. I wouldn't allocate resources to the HTML5 issue right now. Things will be much clearer...

The fix on viewtopic.php?f=14&t=72889&p=240603&hilit=YUV#p240603 solved the slight color issue! thanks.
Does disabling hardware YUV>RGB conversion come with a performance penalty though?

True. I didn't think of loading the static image into VLC before. I tried loading various .jpg's into VLC, and it exhibits the same issue. I also noticed that pictures loaded into VLC have slightly more washed-out, less vibrant colors than when I view them with Windows Photo Viewer. Could this be co...

I found mention of the same problem here: http://www.cccp-project.net/forums/index.php?topic=3442.0 (Vista, CCCP codec, AMD graphics) Maybe the problem is not in VLC at all but files with low bitrate encoding. Then I wonder what the WMP codec does to mask the problem.. Here is an explanation from th...

Glad to help. VLC belongs to all of us and all should contribute as they can. Is it universal and not my config?

I paid attention while watching other videos. And they all reproduce this problem, only in red colors. The distortion is in all shades of red, but the brighter/fuller the red, the worse it gets. It's not some samples that this is happening, but all videos, therefore there's no point to sharing a sam...

OK here's photobucket. I tried directx3d, opengl and gdi output modes with no change. WMP: http://i966.photobucket.com/albums/ae147/napx/bbt_wmp12.png VLC: http://i966.photobucket.com/albums/ae147/napx/bbt_vlc105.png + Another example : http://i966.photobucket.com/albums/ae147/napx/vlcsnap-2010-03-3...

Hi, I recently noticed that red colors in a Big Bang Theory episode are all blocky and very annoying in VLC 1.0.5. The same problems do not appear in WMP12. I do not know if this is a known issue (I tried searching). I made a zip file with 2 screenshots. bbt_wmp12.png vs. bbt_vlc105.png (see my post...

ffdshow tryouts has a new release (beta 7) that advertises ffmpeg-mt. come on VLC ! News 2010-02-14 Beta 7 has been released! Highlights of this release: * Support for DTS-HD and Dolby TrueHD bitstreaming * New H.264 decoder "ffmpeg-mt" takes better advantage of multi-core CPUs * Improved ...