Vertical Green Bar with Video distortion

[coffeemas]

When I play some of my movies on VLC, A large flashing vertical bar appears sometimes it's green or blue over the screen and causes video distortion including ghost images in other hues in the background of the main movie. Please help me with this; the following is some of the specifications of my system:

VLC 0.8.6c
Windows XP professional sp2
Intel P4 3.0 GHz, 2.00GB DRR2 Ram
NVIDIA GeForce 8500GT

I have downloaded the most recent drivers for my video card and I have uninstalled and reinstalled both DirectX 9.0c and VLC numerous times any advice would be greatly appreciated.
The problem occurs mostly with some AVI files but not all AVI files. Also The movies usually plays on my WindowsMedia player 9 series 9.00.00.3250. Although there is a distortion at the bottom. I downloaded some Divx players but the flashing bar reappears on them. WM9 plays it without the flashing bar. Any information or advice would be appreciated.

[Droogz]

what i found is if you start the movie and go to Video > Deinterlace and select either Discard or Mean setting it usually gets rid of the green bar,however i cant seem to save that setting but its no biggie 2 mouse clicks isn't exactly taxing

Hope this helps
Dave

[coffeemas]

OMG IT WORKS YOU ARE A GENIUS!!!!

[hercules71185]

awesome thanks a bunch haha I had a problem with another avi media player would play video flawless but, no audio.. vlc played audio flawless but, the video had that distortion now.. once again vlc works the best.

[theshaddo93]

The 2 click thing does annoy a lazy person like me

To have the deinterlacing on always, go to

Settings=>preferences=>Filters=>Dinterlace

There is a drop down box under the heading "Display". Select the one that works for you. For me, it was MEAN, but different hardware,ect may mean that urs is different.

Gotta LOVE VLC

enjoy ppl!

[Red Stripe]

I'm having the same problem, but making that change doesn't seem to help. I've gone through and tried it on all the different settings under deinterlace and i still have the same green bar and video distortion.

[VLC_help]

Try to change video output module.

[Red Stripe]

Changing it to DirectX video out put made the bar a bit more blue on most of them. Nothing on the others. Some of the other settings helped but the image quality went out the window. One that cleared it but lost the quality was Directx 3d.

[DJT]

what i found is if you start the movie and go to Video > Deinterlace and select either Discard or Mean setting it usually gets rid of the green bar,however i cant seem to save that setting but its no biggie 2 mouse clicks isn't exactly taxing

Hope this helps
Dave

Hi there,

first of all I'd like to thank you for the great tip. But I wouldn't be creating an account just to thank you :p
So, I have the movie Lust, Caution and of course I need subtitles. What's the problem? Well, I had the greeny thingy also on my screen so I followed your great tip, but then the subtitles become illegible..

Thanks in advance for your help

Wouter

[VLC_help]

Try another video output module. DirectX, OpenGL, GDI, Direct3d (nightlies have blurring issue fixed).
http://nightlies.videolan.org/

[dub]

Hey,

I'm also getting this green/blue band/stripe across my movies.
I've tried different interlace settings and also changed the output module but neither seemed to have helped
I downloaded the most recent version of VLC and re-installed too...

Any further ideas?

Also, why has this seemingly happened for no reason? I haven't installed any extra codecs and I didn't change any VLC settings either, it just changed all of a sudden?

[VLC_help]

You saved your VLC settings after you changed output module? If you use VLC snapshot feautre, do you see the lines in snapshot also?

[dub]

OK, it worked setting my Video Output Module to: DirectX 3D video output.
I guess what I was doing "wrong" is that after saving the output I didn't restart VLC, which you apparently have to do.

My question now is, why did this change all of a sudden when I haven't changed any settings in VLC. Why would do I have to change the output when I did nothing to "break" it in the first place, like messing with settings? It just stopped displaying correctly for no apparent reason. Seems strange.

[VLC_help]

Display adapter drivers. Update of drivers (or even adding/removing monitors or adjusting settings from display adapter control panel) can cause issues.

[MetalheadGautham]

and thats the reason you may need to check ALL your software which uses DirectX for audio/video after a reinstall/upgrade of drivers. Once a game I was playing went all marbles after a directx upgrade. Same happens to many other media players too.

[TonyTrey]

I've been battling this for months but I finally found a solution!! And one that doesn't degrade everything to pixels.

In VLC go to Setting - Preferences - Video - Output Modules - DirectX. Make sure the Advanced Options box is checked. Uncheck the 'Use Hardware YUV -> RGB Conversions' box. Save.

I don't claim to be a genius so I'm not sure what other side effects that may have, but it works. Enjoy.

[DJT]

Thanks for your help, at last I can see some movies I've been wanting to see since a long time

[chelf]

Try to change video output module.
THANKS MAN - opengl did the trick, i guess my video card is a bit broken so play video anyway!