Choosing YUY2 output colorspace

[power9544]

Hi all, I have a SiS6326 AGP card that has a problem with reproduction of
default colourspace on WinXP. When played the picture is masked with colour
patches making the picture unviewable. It only works with YUY2 colourspace
that I can choose with FFDshow codec.

Is there an option of choosing the YUY2 colourspace with VLC. I find no
options to select output space anywhere in the menus. Kindly help.

Thanks,
Power

[DJ]

Try Preferences, Video and shut off "Overlay video output"

Then Preferences, Video, Output modules, DirectX and shut off "Use hardware YUV->RGB conversions" then press Save and close the player.

[power9544]

hello DJ,

thanks for ur suggestion. i had tried the same earlier and it works out.
but the problem is my cpu is P3-450MHz, so the poor thing cant process
any high resolution videos along with decoding XviDs or DIVX.

i'm looking for utilizing directdraw reature of the video card to do the
overlay and it works only for YUY2.

the advantage of vlc is that it consumes amazing low processing power
out of all the codecs i've tried so far.

can anybody help in this regard, and may i request the programmers of
vlc to provide an option to choose the output color space such as the one
available in FFDshow.

thanks again...

[DJ]

There is no Video acceleration available under OpenGL and the P3-450MHz processor can't do it by itself. So there is no answer here. This Hardware would have preformed minimally under Windows 9x - Me but would be even less feasible under Windows XP.

[power9544]

Yes DJ u r right. the card performs without any problem on non NT platfom
such as win9x. It is apparent only with NT.
I wonder why there is no such feature of selecting color space that is
available on XviD and FFDshow codecs.

I just found my problem is similar to the one in
viewtopic.php?t=3496&highlight=yuy2

but only that its more severe. the entire foreground is masked by translucent pink and green patches.