[vlc] Re: VLC problem/question

[Benjamin PRACHT]

On Tue, Oct 07, 2003, catfx at comcast.net wrote :
> 	I am running your current version on an AMD 2600 based 
> system under Windows 2000. When playing back some files , 
> especially those encoded by a specific group (Ishin / Triad) who 
> seem to always be using the very latest version of Xvid, I get severe 
> colour smearing and blur, almost constantly in the lower part of the 
> frame but moving objects anywhere in the frame are liable to smear. 
> A friend running your MAC version has no trouble with this. Is this an 
> OS specific problem? What can I do to correct it? Do you offer 
> updated video driver packages for VLC? And as a final truly stupid 
> question, exactly what is the VLC symbol and what does it mean? I 
> have heard it referred to as a "traffic cone" among other 
> interpretations and have been wondering about it. I wasn't going to 
> bother you with such a silly thing but, since this problem has 
> cropped up i figured I may as well throw it in.
> 	Thanks for the program. It works wonderfully and is one of 
> the best video packages I have ever seen. The ability to handle 
> multi language encodes is truly spectacular and most welcome. The 
> only possible improvements I can see would be the ability to save 
> your settings (like always open as full screen or which audio/video 
> tracks to open with)
> 	Thanks again.
> 
> 								cat
> 
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About the quality issue, VLC can  use 2 different codecs to decode MPEG4
: ffmpeg or XVID.  I think the first is used by  default for every MPEG4
stream. However,  you can chage this  by going in the  preferences menu,
decoder  tab, selecting  advanced  options, and  then  forcing the  xvid
decoder (if  win32 packages  are made  with xvid  enabled, I'm  not sure
about  this). Alternatively,  you could  try with  a self  compiled VLC,
using the latest xvid codecs (could be a little bit hard to do if you're
not familiar with this kind of stuff).

About the symbol... Well, it is  a traffic cone indeed... The reason for
this choice is some kind of private joke among some early developpers of
VLC, at  the Ecole  Centrale Paris.  It would  be a  little bit  hard to
explain here ;-)

About the preferences saving issue : It is already possible to save most
(all ?) of them. Just activate advanced options in the preferences menu,
interface tab. Then,  you can go around and override  default values for
almost all  thinkable settings ;-).  It is  however impossible to  set a
default language (think it would be feasible with some work, just hasn't
been implemented...

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