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Ep. III DVD - Purple vertical line? — Page 2

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OK after looking at this closer it seems to be either a side effect of directx or the mpeg2 codecs. I can see this line in mplayer classic and VLC, but open the same vob in vdub and no purple line! It's got to be some crappy filter thats being used by these progs. As a side note it isn't just PAL disks that are effected. My aotc disk is ntsc and it also produces this line in anything but vdub. I did make one observation which is weird, if you do a screen cap while in media player and paste it into a paint program the line has gone!!
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Originally posted by: iarwain
Originally posted by: TheCassidy
It's on two DVD's if you read his first post, which means 1 of 3 things:

1) It occurs with all 'Sith' DVD's.
2) 2 out of a shitload of DVD's have the problem (unlikely)
3) This guys setup is out of whack.


OK, I've some made more tests:

Computer 1:

Laptop (so LCD screen), ATI card, WinXP.
Software: PowerDVD, vlc.

Computer 2:

Desktop, CRT screen, NVIDIA card, Gentoo GNU/Linux.
Software: xine, mplayer, vlc.

In all the cases I can see the line.



I don't know if this will help but a lot of dvd software has a 'blanking' facility. You can set it to blank out however many pixel depths to picture you like from any edge of the display. I don't use your software but I know you can do it in Zoom Player and Theatertek.

If you have this facility then set it up to blank (maybe start with 2 or 3 pixels depth) on the left hand side and this should solve your problem if it is really that noticable and annoying.
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OK anyone having this purple line prob you need to play your dvd's with this software (properties page below);

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c1/nacluv/dvdplay.jpg

It still has a very slight line but not as smeared as in mplayer or VLC and no horrible blurry filters

I can't for the life of me remember where I got this software from, it might be the standard one with windows 2000/XP