Animesh Kumar {itsAnimesh}
I'm an IT professional from New Delhi, India. Currently for the most part I work as a Technical Consultant developing Open Source ICT solutions for social and societal inclusion. I'm also pursing PG in Management. Below are the latest updates from a some social networks I subscribe to.
Green Verticale Line’s while playing movies in VLC!!!
Sometimes while playing movies or videos in VLC you may have noticed that green vertical bar comes up on the video and the color of the video gets distorted. I didn’t know at first what causes it but after playing around with it a little i found out that Xgl causes these line to come up above the video. When i had xgl uninstalled, the green thick line at the top of some videos played in VLC was gone. But after reinstalled xgl, the green line was back. I played the video’s using the (non-GUI, terminal command) mplayer command, lines were not visible in this. But the lines were visible in the GUI version of mplayer. The basic problem is that default output module used by VLC is XVideo.The simple solution is to change the output module to whatever works best for you.
Now coming to the point on how to change the module :
VLC > Tools > Preferences > Video > Output > change the default to what you want by the drop down box.
If you face problems please leave comments. :)
Hey, do you use Conky as your system monitor (in the right hand side of your desktop as an overlay panel)? If yes, please send me your .conkyrc file or the configuration file. If no, tell me what is it that you use???
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Thanxs… :) Yaa Prashant i do use conky… im planing to write a post on it sometime in the near future… :) the Conky script that i use is at
http://www.quicktweaks.com/2008/09/27/gmail-weather-beauty-right-on-your-ubuntu-desktop/
Haven’t got time currently to work on it but sometime in a week or so I’ll write a personal script..
Thank you very much for your information.I was glad i found a description/method on solving the problem after hours of searching.It works now!No green,blue or vibrating vertical lines on the screen.
Best wishes and regards!
G.
The movies or videos i play with vlc are having a greenish hue throughout with no other colors. it happened after i changed the output module. i tried changing it back to the default setting but in vain.what shd i do now?
Thanks, changing the video output from “Default” to something else removed my green vertical lines. :-)
Thanks a lot! It has worked for me… Best Regards…
It gets rid of the green lines but now the video is really choppy. I’ve tried every output setting. Any ideas?
Wow great! I was wondering how to fix that. All you have to do is change the output module and the scanlines will go away. Sweet! If ur video is choppy try other modules or upgrade/restart/etc ur computer.
thanx a lot
thanks, worked straight away. I updated my vlc to the latest version 1st then changed the video output to ‘windows GDI video output’ that was my 1st choice and it worked. thanks again.
just install some of previous versions of vlc
http://www.oldapps.com/VLC_Player.php
I had the same problem and you exact instructions fixed it.. most graciously appreciate your magnificent help. no seriously i am getting tired of looking for help on-line and getting no where.
vlc 2.0.1 on dell dimm e310 w/ xp pro sp3
PROBLEM…
green vertical bar in the middle of video +
green thinner horizontal bar at bottom from the middle vertical bar to the right side (making like a type of L)
SOLUTION…
VLC > Tools > Preferences > Video > Display
uncheck the…
Use hardware YUV->RGB conversions
Great result for green vertical line, thanks.
@ rob
thankx my problem is solve d:D
thanks mate