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Hello there

I have a problem with playing WMV9 encoded avi files(MS_WMV9 video 1280x768/MPEG Audio 160Kbps) in VLC 0.8.6

I tried following media players

The result is:
WMP10, 11: performance good but image quality bad (i found if i turn off video acceleration in the WMP option, can be fixed quality problem)

VLC 0.8.5: performance good, image quality good

VLC 0.8.6: performance bad, image quality bad (not found solution yet)

Any suggestion?

On Windows you could try adding --codec dmo to your command line to force the Windows .dll to be used for decoding WMV instead of FFmpeg which uses the VC-1 decoder (VLC 0.8.6).

It would fall under the "preferred decoders" list in preferences, input / codecs. Probably entered as just DMO.

The command line switch (--codec dmo) can be added to a shortcut.

Its fixed now, thx DJ:)