Irritating problem (flashing vertical bars)

[weko]

Ok so this problem has been persistent in a few of my videos. Unfortunately I wasn't able to make a screenshot because it wouldn't pick it up in the screen shot (the bars that is, I do know how to screenshot movies, lol) but not to fear I have recorded it on my phone thus allowing you to see and hopefully help me!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtCK40ABUZ8

Ok so I have tried VLC, I tried WMP11 and I was using k-lite codec pack with no problems up until now.

I would be happy to provide more information should you request it!

thanks.

[Baldrick]

Just post a link to youtube instead and please also include MORE information about your videos, downloaded, captured, what format?

You can make screenshots with for example media player classic, just choose file->Save Image.

[guns1inger]

It's a codec problem. Work out which codec it is using, and update it.

[weko]

Just post a link to youtube instead and please also include MORE information about your videos, downloaded, captured, what format?

You can make screenshots with for example media player classic, just choose file->Save Image.

It's happening to four of my downloaded videos. One is a general dvdrip, the other three are HD rips, although they are all compressed.

I would screenshot but the bars to not show up in them! They continue flashing when playing in VLC although they do stop when MPC is paused.

I have tried several different codecs including the Combined Community Codec Pack

Thanks

[guns1inger]

I would stop using codecs packs to begin with. They cause conflicts, fill your system with codecs and settings you don't need, use or understand.

The source is irrelevant. DVDRip or HD Rip doesn't mean anything. That is what they were, not what they are. Use g-spot or mediainfo or video inspector to determine what they have been encoded with, and then start working on your problem.

Perhaps this will help you understand why codec packs are bad news :

You have a mouse in your kitchen. You have seen the little bastard crawling around the skirting and over the bench tops. You want him dead. Do you

a) lay a mouse trap down with some cheese in a place you know he goes, and wait patiently for the trap to spring

or

b) run around the house blasting at everything with a shotgun in the hope you hit the mouse without doing too much damage to everything else

Using codec packs is the equivalent to answer b). Yes, you might get a video to play, but you have no idea what else you might have done to your system. I know that the sites you find your videos at recommend them, and I know they claim to have uninstallers and easy configuration. But they are far more trouble that they are worth, and adding codec packs on top of codec packs just macks it worse.

[jagabo]

I suspect all the problematic files use Divx or Xvid with a mod2 frame size, a decoder that doesn't like mod2, and/or a video overlay that doesn't like mod2. Try playing them with Divx Player.