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Hi, I recently switched from Windows Vista to Windows 7. I quickly noticed many changes to the video quality from Vista; the edges of everything are rough, colors look faded, and even the text is distorted.

At first impression, I thought it might of been Windows 7, but I tried a different video player and it looked just like how vlc had previously appeared.

Here's the difference (the good one is even a jpg and it still looks much better):

Bad:


Good:


Does anyone know why this is? I thought it might of been anti-aliasing, but I found out VLC doesn't have anti-aliasing. Then I messed around with Nvidia Control Panel and still no luck.

Thanks.

The good one is on Vista?
Both are VLC?

Same version?

Have you tried different display adapters?

The good one is on Vista?
Both are VLC?

Same version?

As I stated, it's a different video player in Windows 7, but it looks like how vlc used to look in vista.

Have you tried different display adapters?

I'm not quite sure what you mean by that. I only have one display adapter, my video card. I don't run SLI or anything.

Sorry, but try the same version of VLC on Vista and Seven and make comparison screenshot.

Sorry, but try the same version of VLC on Vista and Seven and make comparison screenshot.

I don't have access to Windows Vista at the moment, but the aliasing obviously shouldn't be showing in VLC in the first screenshot. Is there anyway to get rid of it?

If you don't do one-to-one comparison, we cannot help in any way.

Sorry, drivers word was left out from last message. So my question should be, "Have you tried different display adapter drivers?"

i'm having this issue as well and all i did was upgrade to 0.9.9 from 0.9.8a which rendered images super smooth with no stupid blockyness.
i have not touched ANYTHING.
clearly its a vlc issue, i assumed you'd screwed around with HD settings.
yep, having tested films, tv and other different video its VLC.
fix whatever you screwed around with as it cant be ALL our pc's.

EDIT:- uninstalled and put 0.9.8a back on.
Stuff all wrong with that.

So exactly what did you screw up then?

In my experience, your choices are: Switch to OpenGL rendering, which will have crappy performance, downgrade your video driver to a Vista one, which will kick out WDDM 1.1, and degrade performance all-around, or not use VLC.

So I reverted back to 0.9.8a and it definitely looks better . Something is wrong with 0.9.9.

Thanks smurfmachine.

Hi,

As I have explained in another post, I'm having the same problem but found a fix: I switched to directx output and disabled overlay.
But it seems that there is indeed a bug with 0.9.9

thanks,

gh.

I haven't got a dedicated graphics card in my machine, its onboard so can't alter open gl settings.
I'll stick with the older version until the programmers figure out what they screwed up.

I haven't got a dedicated graphics card in my machine, its onboard so can't alter open gl settings.
I'll stick with the older version until the programmers figure out what they screwed up.

I have a gtx 260 so it's definitely not my graphics card at fault lol.

Has this been fixed yet or am I still stuck using the older version

There hasn't been any official releases after 0.9.9, you can try 1.0.0-RC builds if you want to test upcoming builds.
http://nightlies.videolan.org/build/win32/?C=M;O=D (branches are 1.0.0)

Hi,
As I have explained in another post, I'm having the same problem but found a fix: I switched to directx output and disabled overlay.
But it seems that there is indeed a bug with 0.9.9
thanks,
gh.

EXACTLY in SIMPLE terms how do I disable overlay?
Treat me as though I'm stupid.

If you're running 0.9.9, make sure that your video output is through Direct3D and not OpenGL as the OpenGL output is broken (not an issue with 0.9..

deltatux

EXACTLY in SIMPLE terms how do I disable overlay?

http://wiki.videolan.org/WindowsFAQ-0.9 ... _output.3F

I was running 1.1.11 and this issue has come back again.
I've had to rollback to 0.9.9 just to get a clear picture again.

I was running 1.1.11 and this issue has come back again.
I've had to rollback to 0.9.9 just to get a clear picture again.

I've now diagnosed my particular issue.

It seems that VLC "forgot" my output setting and shunted to default. I set it back to OpenGL (I now have a dedicated graphics card) and things are all ok again. Why did VLC "forget" or alter the output settings without asking me though?

Its recently done that a few times, including enabling overlay which killed my graphics output all together.

I've put 1.1.11 back on and deleted all caches and old install settings so hopefully no more issues.

VLC settings are stored to single file and sometimes it can become corrupted. Specially when VLC crashes.