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Hello,
I'm using VLC player.
When I play a DVD files in the VLC Player they appear quite blurry. On the other hand, those files are performed smoothly and clean in Windows Media Player.

Does anyone know what could be the problem?
Is there a recommended program settings?

Attached two Screenshots that showing the difference between the VLC and Windows Media Player (Focus the man in the middle).

VLC:


Windows Media Player:

That's an interlaced DVD. I find that the "Yadif" setting works best for deinterlacing, at least on DVDs in the USA.

While the disc is playing go to Video>Deinterlace, set it to "on". Then go to Video>Deinterlace mode, set to "Yadif" or whichever of the available settings works best.

You can also set these things permanently in Tools>Preferences>Video, but that can be annoying as if you play something besides a DVD or other video that requires that setting, then you'll have to pause and turn it all off. I find it's usually only DVDs that need the deinterlace settings, so I just turn it on then.

VLC is designed for all sorts of video types, whereas a DVD Player is set to play DVDs, of course. That's why you have to "configure" VLC. I'm hoping they'll get it to where it will set everything automatically once a DVD is opened, but that may not be possible as I understand DVDs from different parts of the world have different interlacing methods.

Interlacing doesn't produce artifacts like that. More likely that is a VOUT bug, so try different video output module.
http://wiki.videolan.org/WindowsFAQ-1.0 ... _output.3F