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I installed 2.0.1 and found that on some movies there were 4 vertical lines in the middle of the screen and a yellow line at the bottom of the screen, and colours were wrong.

I uninstalled, down loaded 2.0.1 again, re-tested it and had same issues.

I went back to V1, and all is fine. I will use the old version for now.

Please use http://nightlies.videolan.org/build/win ... -win32.exe and report.

Hi Jean,

I have the same problem and I tried using the version 2.0.2 you mentioned above. But the problem's still there.
For me the vertical lines appear only for .avi files, wierd !!


Edit:
Another version of appearance

Please help.

Please use http://nightlies.videolan.org/build/win ... -win32.exe and report.

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CrazyFrog
Your post shows exactly what I am talking about. I watched a 2 hour football game with those yellow lines in the middle of the screen and it drove me nuts. And, correct, only on avi files. I hope Jean-Baptiste can find a fix

Did you try it? http://wiki.videolan.org/WindowsFAQ-1.0 ... _output.3F

Please share the logs.

If one of you ever have the time to come on IRC, this will be great to help me fix it.

Please use http://nightlies.videolan.org/build/win ... -win32.exe and report.

I uninstalled V1, and installed V2.0.0 as per above quote. Results are again a vertical yellow stripe in the middle of the screen. On a another file the stripe was green. Here's another weird thing.......when I took a picture...the stripe does not appear, it's like a ghost, it will not show up when a picture is taken. Also, the audio was a little garbled. Sorry I can not be of more help, I don't know how to use IRC.

Here's another weird thing.......when I took a picture...the stripe does not appear, it's like a ghost, it will not show up when a picture is taken.

That is normal. Snapshot is taken from memory, and it is the video output module that messes up the colors.

Did you try it? http://wiki.videolan.org/WindowsFAQ-1.0 ... _output.3F

Deany - The above solution seems to have fixed the problem for me. I have unchecked the 'Accelerated Video Output' option under Tools -> Preferences -> Video, but that didn't fix it. Then I changed the Output module to - Direct X (i use Windows Xp) and saved the settings. Changing the ouput format to Direct X fixed the issue for me (for now).

I'll report back if I see any other issues. Thanks to all, this blog helped me. I didn't have to go back to older version.

I need the logs... How do you expect me to fix without logs?

Hello,

I got a similar problem (it is fixed if I select as output device DirectX) in my Windows XP laptop (just today downloaded 2.0.1).

I downloaded a Youtube video via Keepvid.com (MPEG-4 format, high resolution), and the result in the playback was this:

http://img192.imageshack.us/img192/9771 ... roblem.jpg

As you can see, some colors are shifted in some way
(see the yellow 'ghost' frame of the cab at the left?).
The car should look orange, instead it looks pink(!)

The original Youtube video is at the address http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOFM2tXFJCg

In next message I will give you the logging data.
I suspect that VLC selects Direct3D instead of DirectX(?) or something like that.

N.F.

Here is the log, I did a 'full screen' command, then I jumped to the end of the video.

Also, if I put only 'warning' level messages, I get this:

mp4 warning: unknown box type btrt (incompletely loaded)
mp4 warning: unknown box type gsst (incompletely loaded)
mp4 warning: unknown box type gstd (incompletely loaded)
mp4 warning: unknown box type gssd (incompletely loaded)
mp4 warning: unknown box type gspu (incompletely loaded)
mp4 warning: unknown box type gspm (incompletely loaded)
mp4 warning: unknown box type gshh (incompletely loaded)
faad warning: decoded zero sample
direct3d warning: trying surface pixel format: YV12
main warning: PTS is out of range (-32964), dropping buffer
main warning: PTS is out of range (-9992), dropping buffer
main warning: PTS is out of range (-31062), dropping buffer
main warning: audio output out of sync, adjusting dates (66074 us)
main warning: not synchronized (66079 us), resampling
main warning: buffer too late (66622), up-sampling

Probably it will help, who knows?
In general, it looks like a wrap-around bug in MPEG-4 files(?)

N.F.

VLC 2.0.2 will use DirectX video output module for Windows XP.