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Is there such a thing as a video player that works?

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June 1, 2014 1:44:16 PM

I've tried every player I can find for the last decade, on about a dozen different computers, and several operating systems, downloading every codec I can find, etc. Nothing works. Certain videos always play with horizontally fragmented line sections whenever there is a object in motion on the screen. I know it's not a problem with the videos because they play perfectly on the sites I download them from, etc.

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June 1, 2014 1:52:40 PM

Have you tried SMPlayer?
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June 1, 2014 1:55:08 PM

I use VLC, never had to download any codec and never found file I could not play so far.
If multiple players show you video with some fragmentation I would bet that faulty is that video and not players. Fact that it's ok on some site do not mean it will be same for you,
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June 1, 2014 2:00:09 PM

Could be the video you are trying to play is interlaced. Right click on the video while it is playing, and select Deinterlace (in VLC, it's in Video -->Deinterlace --> On).
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June 1, 2014 2:04:03 PM

BlackPseudicide, I tried smplayer, but it would not install on my computer. It keeps saying "connect to the internet and press OK to continue." Of course I'm connected and of course I press OK but it the same message keeps popping up.

pm4, if the video can play on the website then it's playable. I just need to find a player that works. VLC will play the videos, but the video will be distorted by many small horizontally fragmented sections whenever something moves quickly. It makes dancing or action (the main things I like to watch) almost unwatchable. The videos must be playable because they play fine on the website before I download them, or on the dvd player, etc.
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June 1, 2014 2:09:01 PM

is the Aero enabled or disabled?
If it's disabled then enable it
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June 1, 2014 2:14:43 PM

Ravi Gagan said:
Could be the video you are trying to play is interlaced. Right click on the video while it is playing, and select Deinterlace (in VLC, it's in Video -->Deinterlace --> On).


I tried this and it didn't help. I even tried each of the different deinterlacing modes. Thanks for the suggestion, though.

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June 1, 2014 2:21:58 PM

Ravi Gagan said:
is the Aero enabled or disabled?
If it's disabled then enable it


I tried looking in vlc help, in the control panel, and did a web search but I still can't figure out what Aero you're referring to, lol.
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June 1, 2014 2:46:27 PM

vlc is the nicest I used
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June 1, 2014 6:46:04 PM

Actually I just figured out that it was the interlacing issue after all. It didn't work at first. Perhaps because the video I tried it on was apparently uploaded in an interlaced version, before I downloaded it, or something like that. For some reason that one video can't be deinterlaced :( . But the deinterlacing worked on the other video that was having the exact same problem so that must be the root of the problem.
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June 16, 2014 1:33:37 PM

Honnis said:
I've tried every player I can find for the last decade, on about a dozen different computers, and several operating systems, downloading every codec I can find, etc. Nothing works. Certain videos always play with horizontally fragmented line sections whenever there is a object in motion on the screen. I know it's not a problem with the videos because they play perfectly on the sites I download them from, etc.


Sounds to me like you are describing something called "tearing". You need to enable a feature called "vertical sync" or "sync to vertical blank" in the player options in order to eliminate this problem. For many players this is the default these days if you are running Windows Vista or newer. If you are running XP you may need to also experiment with something called the "renderer".

For Windows users, I really like MPC-HC for a video player. I would download it as part of a codec pack like CCCP, Make sure to uninstall any existing codec packs before installing CCCP. The other players suggested in this thread are also very good, although I prefer not to use VLC on Windows, though it is one of my players of choice on Linux. Sorry, I don't have any experience with Mac OS.

If you are running Linux it is also important that the graphics card driver you are using as well as the desktop environment support vsync.
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