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Video is pixelated when played in VLC

Posted: 12 Jun 2014 10:56
by thufz
i've got a problem with a video.
so first of all i downloaded the video in .mkv format. seeing as not all devices support .mkv i decided to remux the said video into .mp4 format using YAMB.
When i play the video.mp4 in VLC there is a part (two seconds) of the video that is pixelated. (just to point out i am mad man when it comes to quality :twisted: )

Anyway, i thought that maybe there is something wrong with the video.mkv source file,so i played it in vlc to check, but it wasn't pixelated.
Now i presumed that maybe the muxing went wrong somewhere so i repeated the process - same result, video went pixelated in the exact same place when palyed with VLC.
so i tried a different media player 'Media Player Classic' to play the video.mp4 and there was no pixelation.

can someone explain to me why this is happening when i play the video.mp4 in vlc.
and yes i know that a sensible person would just use 'Media player classic' since it plays the video fine, but i prefer VLC and would like to know why this is happening.

any replies appreciated, and in advance thank you. :D

Re: Video is pixelated when played in VLC

Posted: 12 Jun 2014 12:12
by 123459
not a direct answer but workaround:
Why you arent using dlna? search for "ps3 dlna mkv", there is some solutions right at first page(but, as i understand, all of them transcodes source file, so quality will suffer anyway).

Also, you can connect your pc to tv via hdmi - best possible quality.

Re: Video is pixelated when played in VLC

Posted: 12 Jun 2014 14:55
by thufz
not really answering the question though.

it's just that i want to know why the video.mp4 pixelates at a certain point when played in VLC, but doesn't when i play it in 'Media Player Classic'.
is it a codec difference?