Media player classic Vs VLC

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Hi Im having some problems with video playback using VLC/Zoomplayer. Both of these player give the video's a sightly pixelated effect when I play video's on either of them. MPC however does not have the same problem. I have uninstalled and reinstalled both but with no success. Any advice....?

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It depends on the codec. Try to change the post-processing settings and enable deblocking.
 
PeterCH said:
It depends on the codec. Try to change the post-processing settings and enable deblocking.
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I googled quite a bit on this. It seems the only solution for now is if you select your output in the video settings as either directX or OpenGl. You can also try and deactivate the "overlay" function. This has apparently helped a lot of people "fix" the issue, but not me. Everyone says there is a GFX card driver incompatibility which causes the pixelation to occur.
 
i suppose i hardly use windows so am surprised that wmc is still a viable option
 
I use VLC as main, MPC as backup. On the odd occasion if none of those work, I gotta use WMP.
 
I also endorse the wonderful and free KMPlayer, which fixed the jerkiness I was having with DVD playback. It also has a huge range of configuration options, a small footprint, and handles just about every format you can imagine. Looks pretty too!
 
Check in the settings somewhere if there are resize settings. Looks like something like a bilinear resize, try something like bicubic.

On another note, I installed PowerDVD 8 this weekend, told MPC to use the Cyberlink H.264/AVC decoder and voila I now have hardware decode mkv file. :D Then thought I'd try Windows MediaPlayer. Up it pops saying it has no idea what this file is, but asks if I'd like to continue anyway. "Yes"... and now I can play mkv with hardware decode/accelleration in WMP. :) Me rikey!! 2% CPU usage while viewing an 11GB mkv :D
 
Setting VLC's video output to "OpenGL" fixed the horrible pixelisation for me. DirectX just gave me a black screen.

i suppose i hardly use windows so am surprised that wmc is still a viable option
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Media Player Classic isn't the same thing as Windows Media Player/Center... But WMP 12 is actually not bad compared to its forebears. It's lighter, seems more stable, and actually plays most common formats (including DVD's, heh) out of the box without complaining, or searching for codecs. It's still a bit monolithic for me, personally, though.

VLC has issues with Real Media, which I use MPC + a free codec to play. VLC doesn't use your system codecs, so you have to use something else on the rare occassion it won't play something properly.
 
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I had VLC, MPC and WMP on my XP box along with K-Lite codec pack. I'm tired of that. My new install gets WMP and codecs as I need them. I had to install PowerDVD8 and MPC though to get hardware accellerated H.264 decode to work for the MKV (x264) files, but I'm going to try that theory out again tonight without PDVD8 and MPC installed.
 
In VLC while the video is playing right click on the screen, from the options popup menu choose 'video' and then 'deinterlace', choose blender as your filter. Sorted!
 
Happy Camper said:
In VLC while the video is playing right click on the screen, from the options popup menu choose 'video' and then 'deinterlace', choose blender as your filter. Sorted!
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Turning any form of deinterlacing on actually made things worse for me when using the default video output method.
 
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