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As topic title says, whenever I open a WMV video (Mainly HD), the picture appears to be distorted/pixelated for a few seconds, and also when fast forwarding, but after a few seconds it sorts itself out. MP4 videos seem to be very smooth and I can fast forward perfectly.

Windows Media Player's playback for WMV files is perfect (as expected), but the picture looks crap compared to when it's in VLC, so I don't want to revert back to using WMP.

Any help appreciated. Is there some sort of setting I need to use for WMV? Not a major issue, but it's annoying everytime I play a WMV file.

Thanks

You cannot do much, except wait for us to fix it.

Thanks, glad it's nothing to do with my settings/videos.

Friends - This has been a problem now for years. Please put a fix near the top of your list Best, IM

And now we are writing 2021, and still not fixed.

And now we are writing 2021, and still not fixed.

Are you referring to a local file or a stream on the Internet somewhere? If the latter, please post the link to it.

I have one .wmv file locally on my system which plays without a problem.

I think VLC is not efficient in certain formats. I notice this problem in slower device. When I moved to a faster device, this problem disappear or reduced.