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I noticed that VLC has some distortion (looking like stripes) on some kind of video files.
I know this issue for years but never found any information on what it is, how it occurs and if something can be done about that.

I attached an image showing the video playing in Firefox and VLC 3.0.8 (with the media information window opened). I marked some placed where the difference is more noticeable but this pretty much affects the whole movie. I assume that it has something to do with interlacing, but when I switch off the deinterlacing (or change any related setting) nothing changes.

I assume that it has something to do with interlacing, but when I switch off the deinterlacing (or change any related setting) nothing changes.

I think deinterlacing filter is not working with your hardware acceleration backend.

Or more stupidly, because it's 25fps, likely it was not deinterlaced before re-encoding !

Yeah thanks disabling HW decoding definitely helped. However I wonder that neither firefox, chrome nor other video players I tried are using hw decoding. I also noticed that issue with different notebooks/PCs Intel/AMD/dGPU on Windows and Linux so I guess it is not an issue of my hardware specifically.