VLC DVD playback pixelated
I have some DVDs that I play sometimes and I play them in my DVD player and they look and play fine. But when I tried to play them in VLC they came out a little pixelated. It must be a VLC thing because I know that these DVDs are in great quality and VLC has been known to not work with some other DVDs I have lying around. Is there an extra codec that I must install in order for VLC to start playing the DVDs in better quality?
The operating system that I am using is the latest release of Ubuntu Studio. |
could also be a codec issue. typically DVDs have non-free codecs that are required for playback.
do you have any other DVD's to test with? also try some of the other media players out there to play the DVDs. |
Do you get the same quality with other players like Kaffeine or mplayer. Also, did you install the libdvdcss codec?
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I used MPLAYER (with XINE) and it all looked great. Not as much pixelating as VLC did but when I tried to play another set of DVDs I have recently found it came out off sync (video and audio didn't really match up under XINE). I switched back to VLC for this set of DVDs and it all looked and worked fine. I guess it's just that one set of DVDs I have is authored differently than all the others.
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In doing some experimentation with different media players I have found that some work with different DVDs and may work with some DVDs better than others. I found that whenever I play movies VLC seems to be the best media player to use. When I play DVDs that feature episodes from a television show (or compilation DVDs), They seem to work fine in XINE. I don't know why this is but maybe because some of them are authored differently. I guess I'll have to roll with this until a media player comes out dedicated to playing DVDs (since proprietary codecs aren't always available in media players. PowerDVD is an example of a DVD oriented media player)
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Have you given any thought to updating your Debian to Wheezy? Debian releases (unlike people) don't always improve with age. :)
jdk |
I am using Ubuntu studio and it's been updated to the latest software installs in the raring repository which is the latest release if Ubuntu
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