WTF? Stupid VLC! (.avi playback problems)

[Josias]

Well, the image speaks for itself. This annoying green line is there every time I play this particular .avi file. It is "Dave Matthews Band - Storytellers (VH1)", which I downloaded from the FTP Server http://www.score1more4me.com, through a trial version of the FTP program Fetch. The file is 709.1 MB, and is downloaded fully and 100%. I had no problems getting this through CuteFTP on my old windows can. My brother downloaded the exact same file on his iBook also through a trial version of Fetch, and is also playing it in VLC, no problems.
Now you may say:

But I have asked many people wot to do, and no one could help me!

 

[mad jew]

Have you tried playing your brother's version on your own Mac?

 

[solaris]

^ Or tried a different VLC version (ex. a nightly build)?

 

[Josias]

No, I haven't tried either of these, but I will very soon. If it is my file, I'll just get my brother's version. Right now I'm getting a 43.4 MB .avi file from same FTP server, through same FTP program, to find out if it was just this one file I was unlucky with, or if my MB/Fetch/VLC is cursed.

 

[theBB]

I've seen this same problem reported on VLC forums. It seemed pretty widespread for particular codec(s). I don't remember all of the details, but you can follow it through this thread. The first post about green line issue is at page 7, when VLC for intel was still a beta. I don't know if they eventually found a solution, so you may need to look through quite a few pages.

http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?t=16725

 

[zami]

I too have had this green line problem, the solution is to use either MPlayer or XinePlayer. One or the other will play the file without the line.

 

[Josias]

I too have had this green line problem, the solution is to use either MPlayer or XinePlayer. One or the other will play the file without the line.

Can I have links to these?

 

[Mernak]

This has happened to me also, except with asf or wmv files. If you use <a href=http://www.isquint.org>iSquint</a> to convert the files to MPEG they work fine in VLC.

 

[Josias]

This has happened to me also, except with asf or wmv files. If you use <a href=http://www.isquint.org>iSquint</a> to convert the files to MPEG they work fine in VLC.

If I use what ot convert them mpeg? I don't understand this code language...

 

[CNU182]

he just meant to post the link for isquint

http://www.isquint.org

 

[Josias]

he just meant to post the link for isquint

http://www.isquint.org

Why thankyou. It works perfectly!