VLC Media Player 2.0.0 “Twoflower” has been released for Windows (and other OS). Since VideoLAN claim to have fixed hundreds of bugs, rewritten the code and added additional codecs, I tried it out.
Unfortunately, VLC Media Player seems to be going the Mozilla Firefox way. After Firefox 3.6.x, every alternate version of Firefox (stable) release seems to be junk. Thus Firefox 10.0.0. had so many issues, people actually reverted back to 9.
And VLC Media Player seems to have caught a similar bug. Videos simply did not display with VLC Media Player 2.0.0. ‘Twoflower’, though the Audio part is fine. All audio files too played without a hitch. I tried every trick I knew, including uninstalling and reinstalling the K-Lite Codec Pack (8.4.0) and (horror or horrors), deleting the VLC ‘preferences and cache’.
Nothing worked. For me, on Windows XP SP3, it is back to VLC Media Player 1.1.11 for now.
The display problem has been sorted out with a workaround - read the how-to here.
Unfortunately, VLC Media Player seems to be going the Mozilla Firefox way. After Firefox 3.6.x, every alternate version of Firefox (stable) release seems to be junk. Thus Firefox 10.0.0. had so many issues, people actually reverted back to 9.
And VLC Media Player seems to have caught a similar bug. Videos simply did not display with VLC Media Player 2.0.0. ‘Twoflower’, though the Audio part is fine. All audio files too played without a hitch. I tried every trick I knew, including uninstalling and reinstalling the K-Lite Codec Pack (8.4.0) and (horror or horrors), deleting the VLC ‘preferences and cache’.
Nothing worked. For me, on Windows XP SP3, it is back to VLC Media Player 1.1.11 for now.
The display problem has been sorted out with a workaround - read the how-to here.
Exactly the same happened with me a few days ago. I'd been using VLC since the early days and had settled on version 1.1.11 for months. When I saw version 2.0 I immediately downloaded and installed it. Result: All videos I tried had vertical grey lines and were unwatchable. No combination of the video settings in Tools/Preferences had any effect, so I reinstated 1.1.11 and condsider that version 2.0 is indeed junk.
ReplyDeletehi MM,
Deletefound out a workaround with version 2.0.1; post at:
http://www.madmadrasi.net/2012/03/vlc-media-player-201-is-here-with-fuzzy.html
check it out, perhaps it will work 4 you too!
cheers!
guess the new video rendering pipeline and/or new video filters have a problem.
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