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I have downloaded a lot of videos uploaded by aXXo from mininova.org.  Lately, I found that all the videos that I download from aXXo, were getting a blue patch or bunch of green lines while playing in VLC player (0.8.6b).  I am not able to take a snapshot of the video to show how bad the patches are.  Interestingly, VLC’s snapshot option is giving out the snapshots that are pretty clean.  I searched in many places for a solution.. People adviced of a) remove YV12 in ffdshow b) install XVid instead of the MP4 plugins c) disable WMV acceleration d) setting de-interlacing to Discard/Mean in VLC e) reinstall nVidia driver f) reinstall VLC player and many more. I tried all of them and nothing worked out for me.

Finally, I figured out the answer from the following URL:
http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=41484

The answer is pretty simple.

a. Click on Setting->Preferences
b. Open Video on the Left pane
c. Click on Output Modules
d. On the right hand side, check enable on the “Advanced Options”
e. You will see a pull down menu named “Video Output Module”
f. Select DirectX 3d video output
g. Click on Save
h. Restart VLC.

There you go.. The video plays super smooth.

Still, I am not able to figure out why should I do this to make the video work. The problem is definitely not a codec problem, not a de-interlacing problem.. I am yet to discover what got changed for aXXo’s videos.

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