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I switched from an old radeon 4850 to a gfx 660.
I formatted windows 7 64bit.
I am using default settings in the latest VLC.

Now movies in VLC often have weird horizontal lines. The same effect happens in fullscreen youtube videos.
This was not there before, when I had Radeon. Playback with verbose 2 does not reveal anything other than a lot of "Mouse hidden/shown" events. When I play the exact same files in Windows Media Player the horizontal lines are not there.

I have googled the crap out of the problem, and searched the first few pages of a search on this forum without finding a solution that worked. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I think it's weird that youtube flash videos and VLC share the same problem, yet it doesn't happen in WMP.

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Systeminfo
Windows 7 64bit
cpu: CORE2 DUO E8500 3.16GHz
gpu: GTX 660 2 GB GDDR5
ram: OCZ 2x2 GB DDR2 PC2-8500/1066 MHz
psu: Antec Neo HE 430 Watt
ssd: Samsung 830 Series MZ-7PC256N
hdd: Samsung Spinpoint T166 500GB
motherboard: ASUS P5Q PRO
monitor: AOC i2353Fh 23"

Change Video Output to OpenGL.

Change Video Output to OpenGL.

Thanks, that seems to have fixed it.

I did try it previously, but only after I had tried a million other things suggested around the forums. Perhaps default settings and then only OpenGL was what was needed.

Is there any reason NOT to enable "Use GPU accelerated decoding"?



Sort of off-topic, any idea how to fix it for youtube? Using latest Chrome browser.

Sort of off-topic, any idea how to fix it for youtube? Using latest Chrome browser.

No clue for Youtube, sorry. Take the youtube links inside VLC:)

Is there any reason NOT to enable "Use GPU accelerated decoding"?

It can fail on some machines and some streams.