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2.0.1 bad video

Postby deany allen » 31 Mar 2012 03:17

I installed 2.0.1 and found that on some movies there were 4 vertical lines in the middle of the screen and a yellow line at the bottom of the screen, and colours were wrong.

I uninstalled, down loaded 2.0.1 again, re-tested it and had same issues.

I went back to V1, and all is fine. I will use the old version for now.

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Re: 2.0.1 bad video

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 31 Mar 2012 13:38

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Re: 2.0.1 bad video

Postby CrazyFrog » 31 Mar 2012 14:58

Hi Jean,

I have the same problem and I tried using the version 2.0.2 you mentioned above. But the problem's still there.
For me the vertical lines appear only for .avi files, wierd !!
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Edit:
Another version of appearance
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Please help.
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Re: 2.0.1 bad video

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Re: 2.0.1 bad video

Postby deany allen » 31 Mar 2012 20:38

CrazyFrog
Your post shows exactly what I am talking about. I watched a 2 hour football game with those yellow lines in the middle of the screen and it drove me nuts. And, correct, only on avi files. I hope Jean-Baptiste can find a fix

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Re: 2.0.1 bad video

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Re: 2.0.1 bad video

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 31 Mar 2012 21:56

Please share the logs.
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Re: 2.0.1 bad video

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 31 Mar 2012 22:11

If one of you ever have the time to come on IRC, this will be great to help me fix it.
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Re: 2.0.1 bad video

Postby deany allen » 01 Apr 2012 04:42

I uninstalled V1, and installed V2.0.0 as per above quote. Results are again a vertical yellow stripe in the middle of the screen. On a another file the stripe was green. Here's another weird thing.......when I took a picture...the stripe does not appear, it's like a ghost, it will not show up when a picture is taken. Also, the audio was a little garbled. Sorry I can not be of more help, I don't know how to use IRC.

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Re: 2.0.1 bad video

Postby VLC_help » 01 Apr 2012 11:22

Here's another weird thing.......when I took a picture...the stripe does not appear, it's like a ghost, it will not show up when a picture is taken.
That is normal. Snapshot is taken from memory, and it is the video output module that messes up the colors.

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Re: 2.0.1 bad video

Postby CrazyFrog » 01 Apr 2012 19:21

Deany - The above solution seems to have fixed the problem for me. I have unchecked the 'Accelerated Video Output' option under Tools -> Preferences -> Video, but that didn't fix it. Then I changed the Output module to - Direct X (i use Windows Xp) and saved the settings. Changing the ouput format to Direct X fixed the issue for me (for now).

I'll report back if I see any other issues. Thanks to all, this blog helped me. I didn't have to go back to older version.
Thank you
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Re: 2.0.1 bad video

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 03 Apr 2012 01:32

I need the logs... How do you expect me to fix without logs?
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Re: 2.0.1 bad video

Postby nfotis » 06 Apr 2012 21:10

Hello,

I got a similar problem (it is fixed if I select as output device DirectX) in my Windows XP laptop (just today downloaded 2.0.1).

I downloaded a Youtube video via Keepvid.com (MPEG-4 format, high resolution), and the result in the playback was this:

http://img192.imageshack.us/img192/9771 ... roblem.jpg

As you can see, some colors are shifted in some way
(see the yellow 'ghost' frame of the cab at the left?).
The car should look orange, instead it looks pink(!)

The original Youtube video is at the address http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOFM2tXFJCg

In next message I will give you the logging data.
I suspect that VLC selects Direct3D instead of DirectX(?) or something like that.

N.F.

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Re: 2.0.1 bad video

Postby nfotis » 06 Apr 2012 21:12

Here is the log, I did a 'full screen' command, then I jumped to the end of the video.
To help you, we need messages, to completely understand what your problems is.
To fix this, please be sure before you start the playback to:
  1. Open: Tools -> Messages.
  2. Set Verbosity to 2
  3. Start playback to reproduce your issue
  4. Save text in a file or copy into clipboard
  5. Then paste the full resulting log here between [​code]and[​/code] (or use Pastebin.com if it's too long)
Also don't forget to name your Operating System and provide the VLC media player version.

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Re: 2.0.1 bad video

Postby nfotis » 06 Apr 2012 21:18

Also, if I put only 'warning' level messages, I get this:

mp4 warning: unknown box type btrt (incompletely loaded)
mp4 warning: unknown box type gsst (incompletely loaded)
mp4 warning: unknown box type gstd (incompletely loaded)
mp4 warning: unknown box type gssd (incompletely loaded)
mp4 warning: unknown box type gspu (incompletely loaded)
mp4 warning: unknown box type gspm (incompletely loaded)
mp4 warning: unknown box type gshh (incompletely loaded)
faad warning: decoded zero sample
direct3d warning: trying surface pixel format: YV12
main warning: PTS is out of range (-32964), dropping buffer
main warning: PTS is out of range (-9992), dropping buffer
main warning: PTS is out of range (-31062), dropping buffer
main warning: audio output out of sync, adjusting dates (66074 us)
main warning: not synchronized (66079 us), resampling
main warning: buffer too late (66622), up-sampling

Probably it will help, who knows?
In general, it looks like a wrap-around bug in MPEG-4 files(?)

N.F.

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Re: 2.0.1 bad video

Postby VLC_help » 07 Apr 2012 10:46

VLC 2.0.2 will use DirectX video output module for Windows XP.


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