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I posted simmilar thread about sharpening issue.

I tested a lot of my movies, including DVD's, homemade and etc. and sharpening effect has serious problems.
Half of those movies suffer from some sort of aura/ghost effect, and some strange line at the bottom of the video that is blinking. So can you fix that issue?

Edit:

I purcashed Gravion, an Anime cartoon. And this is the effect caused by sharpening (look at the letters ghosting, and the line below the moon):

You mean Tools -> Preferences... (Show settings: All) Video -> Filters -> Sharpen video?

Yes. Actually it is called: Tools -> Preferences... (Show settings: All) Video -> Filters -> Augument contrast between contours.
In Extended settings of VLC player it is in Video Effects -> Sharpen (Sigma slider)

So ghosting is there even if you adjust the value?

Yes. There is no ghosting when slider is only on 0.

You have short sample file you could share to us, so I could open ticket for this?

I hope this thread isn't considered too old for updates. I got the same ghosting problem on some AVI files using Sharpen filter on VLC 1.1.0.

My PC setup:

Athlon 64 X2 5000+
2 GB RAM
Asus EAH3450 256 MB with the latest ATI Catalyst driver installed
Windows Vista Business 32 bit SP2

Here's some more codec-specific info:

File extension: AVI
Codec: MPEG-4 Video (XVID)
Resolution: 720x304
Frame rate: 23.975985
Ghosting: YES (very noticeable even with sharpening set at 0.05)

File extension: AVI
Codec: MPEG-4 Video (XVID)
Resolution: 720x304
Frame rate: 23.976043
Ghosting: YES (very noticeable even with sharpening set at 0.05)

File extension: AVI
Codec: MPEG-4 Video (XVID)
Resolution: 704x304
Frame rate: 23.976023
Ghosting: YES (but it's less noticeable even with stronger sharpening, i.e. 0.25 and higher)

File extension: AVI
Codec: MPEG-4 Video (XVID)
Resolution: 704x384
Frame rate: 25
Ghosting: NO? (or it's almost unnoticeable even with stronger sharpening, i.e. 0.25 and higher)

File extension: AVI
Codec: MPEG-4 Video (XVID)
Resolution: 704x304
Frame rate: 25
Ghosting: NO? (or it's almost unnoticeable even with stronger sharpening, i.e. 0.25 and higher)

File extension: AVI
Codec: MPEG-4 Video (XVID)
Resolution: 704x288
Frame rate: 25
Ghosting: NO? (or it's almost unnoticeable even with stronger sharpening, i.e. 0.25 and higher)

File extension: MKV
Codec: H264 - MPEG-4 AVC (part 10) (avc1)
Resolution: 1280x534
Frame rate: 23.976215
Ghosting: NO

The issue is still there in the last 1.1.1 version.