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Probably something to do with hardwar acceleration and your graphics card drivers. Update them.

Or maybe your sound drivers are at fault.

It could be an option

Bump !

When will we have this functionality ? Also, can you put an advanced option to enable mouse play/pause even if it breaks some filters ? Or can someone put out an unofficial experimental build of VLC that can do this ?

Yes, are the NV drivers messing around ? (because VLC is using hardware acceleration ?)

Please tell me which is the relevant setting I can change.

EDIT: I googled a bit : Color adjustment on my Nvidia control panel is set to "video player settings"

I've always noticed that video playback on vlc looks worse than on media player classic due to faded out colors.
I've saved a videoframe but the fading is not evident in it, only in the player itself.
(I'm using 1.1.11)