Thanks a lot for your help guys, and sorry for not doing a more thorough test before I posted.
]]>man mplayer
No kidding, there a section for vdpau (including an option denoise) the option you seek might be there.
You're right, it is there, thanks for pointing it to me.
Still, instead of the noise I get blurriness if I enable the denoise filter. The best compromise is to set it to 0.5, but I still see some noise and some blurriness.
@dspyder
The default vlc settings didn't make any difference unfortunately. I liked the idea though, 'cause I had been messing with the settings a lot and didn't remember what were the defaults.
As for the grain effect in some films, yes, some have that effect, but I myself notice it in 720p TV rips, and generally all videos in that resolution and above.
I'll try it with 1080p anime and tell you my impressions.
To make it more clear to you, imagine that the pixels of the image get illuminated/saturated with high frequency, some kind of a flicker effect
Maybe post a screenshot? Though the image may look fine in an image browser.
Edit: Move/rename or delete "~/.config/vlc" and see if it helps.
]]>man mplayer
No kidding, there a section for vdpau (including an option denoise) the option you seek might be there.
]]>Has anyone experienced such an issue? I'm coming from Windows, and that's where my observeration came from - in Windows the videos didn't seem to have any noise.
Thanks in advance.
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