DVD Player - Graphical artifacts at edge of frame

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DVD Player - Graphical artifacts at edge of frame

I'm noticing some strange graphical artifacts in DVD player: a 1 pixel thin line stretching across the bottom of the video frame, and up the right side of the frame. The lines are solid grey for the most part, with the occasional gap thrown in for good measure. (This is definitely not the same thing as the peripheral noise you sometimes see with certain DVDs.) I'd love to take a screenshot, but of course you can't when DVD Player is open.

Now I first assumed that this was a hardware issue, but then I noticed that these artifacts only occur when DVD Player is in fullscreen mode, and that when you move the mouse to the bottom of the screen to display the playback controls, open DVD player preferences, display the video zoom palettes, etc. etc., this graphics corruption immediately disappears.

I don't have this issue with any other application, e.g. Quicktime or VLC Player.

Is anyone else having this problem?

Macbook (late 2007), Mac OS X (10.5.6)

Posted on Jan 3, 2009 6:28 PM

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Answer 1

Kiheikev

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Jan 23, 2009 10:41 PM in response to thegreatcurve

I too am having graphical artifacts but they only occur with home recorded dvds at the top of the frame. Are you problems with only noncommercial dvds too? Mine is a thin line at the top of the frame but its not only in full screen mode.It reminds me of vcr heads not being quite in alignment.
Kevin

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Answer 2

Feb 9, 2009 1:05 AM in response to Kiheikev

I think we have different issues – it sounds like your graphical artifacts could be embedded in the DVD movies themselves (perhaps by your DVD recorder?), rather than being caused by the DVD Player application itself. Do you see the same thing playing the DVD in VLC Player?

In any case, my issue looks like an Apple bug – the graphical artifacts disappear when you change the deinterlacing mode from "better quality" to "good quality". I've sent them a bug report.

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