So i formated my Vista laptop -> weird problem
 

so now all is almost fine up to the point when i want to watch movies...

i got the latest VLC and it plays all the videos fine, but they all seem very pixelated, which was not the case before.

http://i38.tinypic.com/wqyg5s.png


so does anyone maybe have an idea as to how to help me, but please spare me the "get rid of Vista" answers as they are really useless...

I run Vista, and VLC; with no such issues.

My XP machine is having trouble on my 1900x1200 monitor doing full screen itself; not with playing smoothly, but with some odd line blurring results. Doesn't happen when running the Vista laptop.

I don't have the newest VLC, but it appears as if the software is sharpening the image process...

what kind of video card do u have or monitor size and what kind of avi's r u trying to run (HD). i have that problem with some 1080 movies cause my laptop runs a video accelarator and the 1080 uses up too much of my ram and causes the video to pixalate (crash)

I would check the video card driver.

could also be the power settings,in the control panel there should be a screen resolution settings on the left all the way down there crank that all the up also.

thank you everyone for the great suggestions, i will try them out tomorrow :D

So i formated my Vista laptop -> weird problem

Dont we all love Bill so much. But Windows 7 is going to be better.:mrgreen:

I love Bill so much more than I do Steve. I hate Steve so much that I bowed never to use an Apple again.

i wish i didnt have a life so i could learn how to use linux/unix os

the picture i posted was just a regular DVD and not HD, i just have the vid running on full screen res and took the image then.

my video card driver is an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3450. i am running directx 10, the screen res is 1280*800.

when i got the laptop naturally everything was pretty much ok but vista kept having weird glitches and i got myself a trojan so i formatted my HDD before more damage would be done.

well like i said the vids run fine but they are just pixelated. i will try getting the latest video card driver and hope that will solve the problem.

EDIT:

ok i got the solution, it was VLCs fault. i had to set the Vide output to DirectX and everything is fine again.

thanks for the input everyone :)

Target now has these small laptop computers for 289 dollars. They have no hard drive just 8 gigs of silicone memeory built in and a couple of usb ports for more memory.

They come with linux and open office.

This maybe the end of Bill, I don't know about Steve, as I like his phone.

I saw a gas station offering regular at $1.91.

A little late to save GM and Hummer probably.

Was gas that cheap a year ago? Go figure.