Strange display problem with VLC

[marioval]

I'll try my best to explain this. if I open a video with VLC, it plays fine but if I click on the slider to move ahead, when the playback starts at the new point in time, the video becomes heavily pixelated with all kinds of rainbow colors for about 5 seconds. The colors don't go away all at once. They slowly start to go back to normal on different parts of the video until eventually it is back to normal. it seems to be worse with low quality video but other than that I see no real pattern because it has happened with high quality video.

[jman98]

This happens to me all the time with VLC. I have always just assumed it's just how it is and there is no fix for it.

[marioval]

I should add that this will not happen in WMP or MPC with the same videos. And if it matters my video card is NVIDIA® GeForce® 6100

[marioval]

Any else???

[redwudz]

VLC apparently uses ffmpeg and libmpeg2 for decoding and it may be a problem from that. I haven't really noticed it that much, but I don't move around in the timeline most times for playback.

[TBoneit]

I only see that with wmv files. The other problem is when playing a flv I can not jump ahead. I can jump backwards within the part that has played.

Most AVI or mpg files I can jump ahead or backwards. Of course I use a standalone player profile for divx encodes and do not do all the space squeezing tricks.

[guns1inger]

I have seen this as well on some files. It seems to be related to GOP structure, and sometimes VLC gets lost if you drag to a point mid GOP (easy with 300 frame GOPs used in Xvid/Divx files) and rights itself when the next i-frame is reached. FWIW, I see similar (although less extreme) artifacts from my LG standalone player on some files.

[marioval]

I've just switched to AlShow. My new favorite player.