pixelated, poor quality video in Windows 7 RTM

[Christoliquide]

http://christoliquide.adsltv.org/Images ... ugzoom.png
Quand le Zoom est sur une valeur à plus de 100 (Screen Zoom 110 via adslTV), nous obtenons des bandes noires cachant l'image en active X uniquement en plein écran et peut etre depuis VLc tout simplement.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Quel zoom ? VLC zoom ?

[Christoliquide]

Depuis l'activeX.

Edit> En fait je viens d'apprendre que c'est adslTV qui gère le Zoom de l'image sur l'activeX, et on a ce souci.
A priori, il n'y a pas de souci de votre coté Mais peut etre avez vous une explication ?

On regarde ca en interne

[Parastie]

Tried using the latest 1.0.3 nightly and still had the pixelation. If i changed to openGL, that fixed it. Also tried the 1.1.0 build that was linked with the same results.

I'm running Windows 7 RC1 and 9.8 catalyst drivers. Any suggestions? I'll give rebooting a try later and see if that helps.

[VLC_help]

Parastie: You also tried the RC? And installation went OK?

[Parastie]

Parastie: You also tried the RC? And installation went OK?

Which RC are you referring to? I downloaded the 1.0.3 night dated October 21st. The 1.1.0 that was linked in an earlier post installed okay. However, when I click on help it still says it's 1.0.3 goldeneye. If I go into Add/Remove programs it's listed as 1.1.0. Strange isn't it? I suspect the help file hasn't been updated on the 1.1.0 RC.

BTW rebooting did not help.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

ftp://ftp.videolan.org/pub/testing/vlc-1.0.3-rc/win32/

[Earthbolt]

I have the same issue with Win 7 Ultimate x64.
As other people have said, I tried DIrectX output, which fixes it, but messes up Aero, and OpenGL removes playback controls in full screen mode.
I tried the 1.1.0 daily build (both the one from earlier in this post, as well as the one from Oct 30th, and both seem to replicate the effect of simply setting Video Output to OpenGL. It works but removes Playback controls.

Is there any news yet on when this will all be sorted out?

Edit: Hadnt tried 1.0.3 since 1.1.0 was giving problems, but I just did and it seems to work beautifully.. fixes pixelation as well as keeps the playback controls. Sorry for jumping the gun. Keep up the good work

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Hi Everyone,

I had pixelation problem on 1.0.2 so I installed the 1.0.3-rc. The pixelation problem went away and it works great on my primary monitor (laptop). I have a secondary monitor attached to my laptop and when I fullscreen VLC on that monitor, I run into a weird problem. The video doesn't cover the whole screen but leave the background showing through on one side. The black bars on top and bottom does cover the screen though. Here are my spec:

Lenovo T61p with Quadro FX 570m (running nVidia 190.07 reference drivers)
Windows 7 Professional 32-bit

The problem doesn't happen with 1.0.2 but 1.0.2 has pixelation. I will try to install the 1.1 nightly and report back. Anyone else have similar problems?
I am attaching an image to show you what I mean.

http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/2112/78491358.jpg

UPDATE: Just wanted to add that I tested the latest nightly built and I still have the same problem. I retested it with VLC 1.0.2 and the cutoff problem is gone and replaced with pixelation. I also tried the same AVI file with windows media player and it is working fine on the secondary monitor. I appreciate any help I could get on this issue!

Multiple screens will be fixed in 1.0.3 release

[Shakama]

FINALLY!!!!! was that so hard?

[televole]

Where can we find 1.0.3 RC1 release ?
This problem is not win 7 specific.I was using vista 32bit home basic.(no problem,actually it was doing with avi-xvids,but I was not wathcing avi xvids anymore)
I just installed vista 32 bit ultimate.Now it is doing the problem with both mkv and avi xvid files.

[VLC_help]

Where can we find 1.0.3 RC1 release ?

ftp://ftp.videolan.org/pub/testing/vlc-1.0.3-rc/win32

[Juvator]

hey,

Im running a intel 2 duo(2,66ghz) 6gig ram, and a geforce 8800 gts 320mb
anyways, I installed Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit,and I downloaded VLC again + matroska pack.
and before I never had any problems ,but now the quality is totally crap, even with very high quality movies.
and I read here that 1.0.3 is supposed to fix this, but its not fixing it for me, I wasnt able to download the file from this forum, I dunno why
but I got it from Rapidshare and it had the same filename so I presume it would be the same.

any ideas ?

[XilasZ]

hi,

I'm using directx output and libvlc in my program. I've noticed that in 1.0.3, something is broken in the directx output : the quality is poor now, and the video doesn't resize beyond some limit.
I've check the sources of vlc, nothing has changed in directx module, only in direct3d. But as the fix for windows7/vista is related to resize, i guess it's a side effect.
If i replace the directx plugin by the one in version 1.0.2, everything is working fine again.

By the way, i'm on XP SP3, but i noticed the poor quality using directx plugin 1.0.3 on vista too.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

hey,

Im running a intel 2 duo(2,66ghz) 6gig ram, and a geforce 8800 gts 320mb
anyways, I installed Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit,and I downloaded VLC again + matroska pack.
and before I never had any problems ,but now the quality is totally crap, even with very high quality movies.
and I read here that 1.0.3 is supposed to fix this, but its not fixing it for me, I wasnt able to download the file from this forum, I dunno why
but I got it from Rapidshare and it had the same filename so I presume it would be the same.

any ideas ?

Reset preferences and cache.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

hi,

I'm using directx output and libvlc in my program. I've noticed that in 1.0.3, something is broken in the directx output : the quality is poor now, and the video doesn't resize beyond some limit.
I've check the sources of vlc, nothing has changed in directx module, only in direct3d. But as the fix for windows7/vista is related to resize, i guess it's a side effect.
If i replace the directx plugin by the one in version 1.0.2, everything is working fine again.

By the way, i'm on XP SP3, but i noticed the poor quality using directx plugin 1.0.3 on vista too.

Reset preferences and cache.

[XilasZ]

I did it, and it still not working properly. I did a little more testing on XP SP3.

I've checked the messages, i got this (but not always) :

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vout_directx warning: DirectDrawUpdateOverlay cannot move/resize overlay vout_directx error: overlay unuseable (might already be in use) vout_directx warning: Could not initialize directx overlay

If the overlay fails, the image is poor, and there is tearing, but there is no resize issue.
If the overlay works, the image is good, there is no tearing, but the video doesn't resize beyond some limit.

With libvout_directx_plugin.dll from version 1.0.2, the overlay always works without tearing or resize issue, and the quality is good.

[VLC_help]

video doesn't resize beyond some limit

You have multi monitor setup?

[XilasZ]

You have multi monitor setup?

No, only one

[Juvator]

What preferences do I reset ? and how do I reset Cache ?

[Lotesdelere]

What preferences do I reset ? and how do I reset Cache ?

http://wiki.videolan.org/WindowsFAQ-1.0 ... ettings.3F

[Juvator]

Resetting VLC doesn't work either, its still very pixelated
and btw I have the same problem in windows media player and media player classic home cinema.

I got the latest audio and video drivers for windows 7 ultimate 64bit.

I know this might not be what u want to say but would there be a different player that might not present these things ?:p

I love VLC but as long as it doesn't play my vids right I might aswell use something that does work.
but I guess that VLC itself is not the problem here, since the problem is still not fixed for me

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Are you sure you are running the latest vlc?

[Juvator]

well I completely reinstalled everything, and I always get the latest version of things, and that's when it got this pixelated.

after that I downloaded the version from this forum, which is an older version right? so that's the one im running now.
but both new and old versions have the same problem.
it seems that further into the movie the pixelation begins to fade though, and its starting to look normal.
but this slow rendering is not normal

[VLC_help]

Juvator: same happens with media player classic home cinema if you select EVR output?