jackpatton wrote:

VanguardLH wrote:

I've noticed more pixelation in old videos that played okay before in
a prior version of VLC.

That was for prior versions to 2.2.6, not 3.0.3. After installing
3.0.3, the problems introduced in 2.2.6 (when I moved from 2.2.2) had
disappeared.

Same here, for versions prior to 3......

But I noticed it when going from 2.2.2 to 2.2.6 of VLC. Well, when I
had 2.2.6 is when I happened to notice the increased pixelating but it
might've happened before if I had played the same videos in VLC when
using 2.2.2. No way to really know which videos I was playing with
which version of VLC to know when pixelation increased.

That I noticed it in 2.2.6 doesn't mean it wasn't happening in earlier
versions. I probably most noticed the pixelation when I would jump
through a video by using the Forward/Backward buttons (which jump at
10-second increments). Sometimes when I jumped, synchronization seemed
to get lost for a couple seconds, the video pixelated, and then it got
corrected and playback continued okay. I don't have that many .mp4,
..flv, or other video files, and none that I tried had the pixelation in
VLC 3.0.3. Probably depends on which codec the video used that VLC
would then use to decode the video. Many video formats are just
containers, so the codec could be different despite playing the same
container filetype.

For me, 3.0.3 was an improvent in playback quality: no more pixelation
and immediate restart on looping. It's possible a damaged codec got
replaced in the new version's internal codec library. Whatever made it
work better, it's better in 3.0.3 for me than it was in 2.2.6 (which was
worse than when I was previously using 2.2.2). 2.2.2: okay. 2.2.6:
some problems. 3.0.3: okay again.