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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.
Last edited by baronobeefdip; 09-13-2013 at 06:59 PM.
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.
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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