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Video all messed up, garbled

Postby f47al1ty » 28 Sep 2006 09:06

Whenever I try and play a video in VLC, it looks like this :

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There's no audio either...

Why is it doing it? The video plays fine in WMP, but I hate WMP...

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Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 28 Sep 2006 10:00

Has it always played like that ?
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Postby f47al1ty » 28 Sep 2006 10:37

Yes...except for maybe once, it played fine...that was a long, long time ago though... :(

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Postby Kamon_Keronji » 28 Sep 2006 15:19

almost the same problem I had! Mine garbles but also it stays black every 3 seconds.I was playing a mkv file and the audio playes fine.

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Postby DJ » 28 Sep 2006 21:14

It may be a video memory problem. Try reducing the resolution and or color depth to see if the problem changes.

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Postby f47al1ty » 01 Oct 2006 06:53

Okay, I'll try that.

Edit -

Didn't do a thing =/

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Postby nonamevlc » 01 Oct 2006 09:23

What codec does the video use.?

And let me just add this.
I too got that kind of garbled screen when I played a DRM'ed video
in VLC player.[For which I didnt have the key].

I dont know if your video has DRM - But,since you are able to play it fine in WMP,there is a chance that WMP has the key stored & therefore able to play the video.

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Postby f47al1ty » 01 Oct 2006 09:33

I'm not sure which codec, but it's a WMV.

Plus, it's not a DRM'd file. It plays fine in WMP and WinAmp.


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