grainy look, deinterlace causes computer freeze fairly often

[rocket777]

I'm running w2k with multiple monitors. The output on any of my screens is somewhat grainy, and streaky, whereas with win media player or powerdvd etc. this is not the case.

So, I tried using the various options, esp. the deinterlace as words like blend sounded promising, but these usually cause my computer to freeze, and then nothing but a reset works.

Is this a unique experience with my system? Is there another way to aovid the graininess? I am playing mpegs at 6 Mbps.

[Ankh666]

I wouldn't know, so don't listen to me, but this is what i'm thinking.. that the playing of your videos in VLC is invoking some unique CODEC that is stripping resources away from some other major system video component or it's just conflicting with a major system video component

I have PowerDVD & mediaplyer 10, & AFAIK, those players have their own CODECs included

I have had similar sort of resource issues with VLC.
Think of like a printer that has it's own build in RAM Vs one that draws on the memory of the system computer to operate

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