Recently I am getting strange colors when playing a video file in VLC. This does not occur all the time, but at random intervals. When I restart VLC the same video file plays fine.
Screen of VLC:
After some googling I found this can be "fixed" by adjusting the 'hardwaredecode' setting in VLC itself.
As a related issue when I have multiple tabs open in my browser (Chrome) and I close a tab, it has issues displaying the previous tab. To clarify, I still see part of the contents of the closed tab in the current tab. But again, this just happens sometimes and when I move the mouse around the 'old' content disappears.
Will add a screenshot the next time this occurs.
How do i get the root cause of this issue? I would like to fix this issue completely, rather than bypass the issue in VLC by adjusting some settings.
Further usefull data:
– This issue only started recently, worked fine before.
– I own a Intel Core i7-4790K, 16GB RAM, NVidia GeForce GTX 970
– I performed a memory test, which did not reveal any issues
– I ran 3DMark benchmark to see if my GFX card would fail but results were excellent
– I have not installed or changed any codecs that could cause the issue to appear (also I don't believe chrome uses codecs to display content, so this should not be relevant)
– Temperatures of the CPU is on avarage 42 degrees celcius. GPU is 37. (could be lower but I have fans on silent mode)
Hope someone can assist. Thank you.
Best Answer
I had the same problem. I do not know the root cause of the issue, but I can tell you how I fixed it and maybe someone can work it out from there.
1) Tools -> Preferences -> Video
2) Un-check "Use hardware YUV->RGB conversions (Under display section in simple view)
This has fixed it for me, been watching for a few days with no repeat errors.