Horizontal Green Lines in VLC 2.2.2

[Finguz]

Same problem here, and the YUV-RGB fix works.

Radeon R9 290X with 16.6.2 Crimsons on Win 10 64bit and VLC 2.2.4. I've had the same problem for the last 'several' releases.

[Hylle]

Signed up to say I have the same issue in version 2.2.4 Weatherwax

Windows 10, AMD 6970

RGB fix works

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

As I said, fixed in 2.2.5

[plague006]

In the hopes of resolving this issue I installed vlc-3.0.0-20160926-0440-git and the issue persists. So either the issue was not resolved or was re-introduced. If there's a specific build you'd like tested I'd be happy to help.

And disabling hardware conversion fixed the issue for me as well.

[Marquitos]

I am having similar problem with VLC 2.2.4; when I convert a video using VLC to MP4 x264 and them play in my sony TV I see a colour line at the bottom. I have played the same video with a Samsumg Bluray player and the line does not appear. Anybody has any idea if this can be removed? perhaps there is any other standard video output that wont create this line?

[Lotesdelere]

https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/17500

[z3b2]

I get these green lines top/bottom too, on 2.2.2, 2.2.3, 2.2.4.
BUT, unlike some others (it seems), I only get them if I crop a movie!
I often crop wide movies to like 1.85:1 to get a bigger picture.
And then I get these really thick and ugly green bars on top/bottom, next to the actual picture.

Since I don't see anything wrong with 2.2.1 I'm still running it, but occasionally I try a new version to check if the bug is gone.

Win8.1, i5-4570S with internal GFX.

EDIT: Win8.1, not Win10, don't know what I got that from lol

[superweb]

2.2.4 weatherwax, win7 64bit, amd 6970
Maybe it will have something to do with 6970model, more people posted here. Cropping 1 bottom pixel fixes that

[Kagemaru]

I had that green bar a few times now and decided to see if there was a solution.
So far the green bar went away, for me, after simply restarting VLC. So i tried getting it to come back and i was able to actually figure out how: if I first watch something in .mkv and the video came to a natural end(not changing through clicking in the playlist) and the next video in the playlist is a .mp4 thant the .mp4 will have the green bar at the bottom. The bar will stay there even after manually changing to a diffrent video and back in the playlist.
2.2.4 weatherwax, win 10 64bit, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

[ramnagel]

I have noticed some things no-one else has yet mentioned here. I don't know if they are relevant.

I am running Windows 10. These are my symptoms in VLC 2.2.3:
1. Only certain videos have a green line at the bottom of the picture.
2. The green line only appears in the video if it has been enqueued and starts playing after another video in the same queue.
3. The green line goes away if the video is stopped and the play button is clicked to restart it.
4. The green line then reappears if N and then P is pressed to skip to the next video and back again, or P and then N to skip to the previous video and back again.
5. Stopping and restarting the video (without leaving VLC) always makes the green line disappear.
6. The green line never appears if the video is launched directly from Explorer and is not enqueued.

I have also noticed some differences in the video stream details. In a series I watch the videos without the green line have slightly different video codec details (via VLC's "Tools | Media Information | Codec"):

Videos that never have a green line:

Stream 0
Type: Video
Codec: H264 - MPEG-4 AVC (part 10) (avc1)
Resolution: 720x418
*Display resolution: 720x402
*Frame rate: 23.976216
Decoded format: Planar 4:2:0 YUV

Green line sometimes appears for these videos (according to points 1 - 5 outlined above):

Stream 0
Type: Video
Codec: H264 - MPEG-4 AVC (part 10) (avc1)
Resolution: 720x418
*Display resolution: 720x404
*Frame rate: 23.976024
Decoded format: Planar 4:2:0 YUV

Note the differences in the asterisked lines. The display resolution for the problematic videos has two extra pixels on the vertical axis and their frame rate is slightly different.

I hope someone with technical skill can use this information to help troubleshoot this issue.