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This is crazy, my computer has stopped correctly displaying WMV files. I have quicktime 7 and klite codec pack 2.49.
WMV files display extremely light and the color is distorted. They play this way in GSpot, WM9, and WMC. Even weirder, I can get the WMV to display correctly by opening it in GSpot (where its still distorted), then opening it in WMC or WM9 (while gspot is still open. PowerDVD did the same thing to me with a DVD movie, displaying it light and distorted. Opening a WMV in GSpot then playing my DVD corrected this issue as well.
Trying to make this easier for people to see I decided to take a few screenshots, but came acrost a even weirder problem. When I have forced it to play correctly in WMC with GSpot already open, I came up with a clear screenshot that looked the way it was supposed to. I planned on using this as a baseline for comparison. I closed GSpot and then reopened my wmv using WMC and it came up distorted. When i took the print screen and put it into paint, the screen came up but the video that I tried to capture was no longer in the screenshot. So I loaded the video again and took another screen, this time with the video still up and running, I moved the screenshot back to paint. This time the screen was in tact as before but where the video should have been. I actually saw the running video. Closing WMC caused the video in the screen shot to close out and go black again. I can only compare to this to a hollywood green screen. I dont know what is going on with this.. I may just format and reload windows to break free from this as I am having tons of trouble playing video in iTunes since 4.8 (when they introduced video). Swift answer to this would be wonderful. Thank you in advance for any brainwork anyone does for me here.
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Not sure wtf is going on....
#2 Guest_Tyler_*
Posted 13 July 2005 - 08:57 PM
I dont really know whats the release of your problem is.
Just can tell you what I would try.
At first try to play the video in the VLC Player, plays nearly everything.
Not working, try WMP 10.
Because the problem appears with WMV Files, I would install WMP 10.
Has already some codecs, which can be neccessary for you.
If thats not the solution, I would deinstall K-Lite and try another codec pack, maybe the XP Pack.
Sometimes while using packs, it can be, that somethings not matching with your system and another one does.
Would be good to set a restore point on your pc, when changing something.
Sorry, could be that Im completely wrong with this suggestions. Just trying to help.
Just can tell you what I would try.
At first try to play the video in the VLC Player, plays nearly everything.
Not working, try WMP 10.
Because the problem appears with WMV Files, I would install WMP 10.
Has already some codecs, which can be neccessary for you.
If thats not the solution, I would deinstall K-Lite and try another codec pack, maybe the XP Pack.
Sometimes while using packs, it can be, that somethings not matching with your system and another one does.
Would be good to set a restore point on your pc, when changing something.
Sorry, could be that Im completely wrong with this suggestions. Just trying to help.
#3 Guest_premiertremere_*
Posted 14 July 2005 - 11:55 AM
well, went ahead and reinstalled windows... wmvs working fine this time around... needed to reinstall anyways... decided to try klite again... it caused the problem so your probably right with it being the issue... possibly clashing with quicktime 7... who knows... ill try xp see what happens.. thanks for the response
#4 Guest_premiertremere_*
Posted 14 July 2005 - 01:01 PM
ok.... killed klite... restarted.. installed xp pack... restarted... no good, still happening... uninstalled... restart... still happening. installed wmp10, still happening... anyway i can cleanly uninstall all the codecs from prior installs? and some how go back to default?
#5 Guest_Tyler_*
Posted 14 July 2005 - 06:15 PM
You can uninstall them cleanly.
Go back to the restorepoint.
Hope you setted one like I told you.
If not its not bad, just uninstall them.
Maybe read the pinned topic "Guide to using codecs".
It shows how to install only the codecs you need, not whole packs.
It gives good information about installing codecs.
Sorry, cant find any further solution.
Go back to the restorepoint.
Hope you setted one like I told you.
If not its not bad, just uninstall them.
Maybe read the pinned topic "Guide to using codecs".
It shows how to install only the codecs you need, not whole packs.
It gives good information about installing codecs.
Sorry, cant find any further solution.
#6 Guest_premiertremere_*
Posted 14 July 2005 - 08:32 PM
found out why...
looks like a problem with my video card / video card driver. I turned down the rendering and it fixed my issue.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsme...10/faq.aspx#3_1
looks like a problem with my video card / video card driver. I turned down the rendering and it fixed my issue.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsme...10/faq.aspx#3_1
#7 Guest_premiertremere_*
Posted 17 July 2005 - 08:29 AM
i have narrowed it down even further
after reducing hardware rendering video functioned fine inside wmp10, however powerdvd5 would not play video properly... so i turned down rendering through the troubleshooting tab, in advanced properties from the settings tab in display properties (sorry if that doesnt make sense ;-) ), until i stopped it, what i now dub the bluescreen effect, from happening system wide. At the point directdraw was fully disabled. So i put hardware rendering to full and fired up dxdiag. Direct3d and Directdraw both passed testing flawlessly, i disabled direct3d and after that did nothing disabled direct draw. After all directdraw features were disabled, the video displayed properly. I have directx 9c by the way. At that point, and since i never had this problem before with this video card (BFG Aslyum FX5200 128MB AGP8X), I backtracked an older Nvidia driver from their archive. Rolling back the driver fixed the issues with direct draw, and video displays perfectly once again.
after reducing hardware rendering video functioned fine inside wmp10, however powerdvd5 would not play video properly... so i turned down rendering through the troubleshooting tab, in advanced properties from the settings tab in display properties (sorry if that doesnt make sense ;-) ), until i stopped it, what i now dub the bluescreen effect, from happening system wide. At the point directdraw was fully disabled. So i put hardware rendering to full and fired up dxdiag. Direct3d and Directdraw both passed testing flawlessly, i disabled direct3d and after that did nothing disabled direct draw. After all directdraw features were disabled, the video displayed properly. I have directx 9c by the way. At that point, and since i never had this problem before with this video card (BFG Aslyum FX5200 128MB AGP8X), I backtracked an older Nvidia driver from their archive. Rolling back the driver fixed the issues with direct draw, and video displays perfectly once again.
#8 Guest_Email_*
Posted 25 August 2005 - 03:36 PM
Cut and paste from http://www.hyperionics.com/hsdx/hs4faq.asp
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Video playing on Windows machine, no matter if it comes from a movie file, Internet, VCD or DVD, can not be captured by regular screen capture methods, because it is usually playing in a hardware overlay. The overlay it almost as if there was another, smaller screen in front of your regular Windows desktop screen. The desktop contains in that place only the so called "overlay key color" - a solid block of color, usually black, blue, magenta or pink, but it can be anything.
A regular screen capture program will capture just that key color, which gives you a funny effect - if your movie is still playing, and your captured that key color into HyperSnap-DX (or any other software) window, and you move that window so that it partly covers the movie player - you will see the movie through the part where this key color was. It seems as if your HyperSnap-DX window had a "hole" and the movie shows through it. This is because the overlay hardware controller is programmed to display that movie everywhere where that key color is on the desktop.
How to deal with this problem? There are two methods. In some movie players (e.g. Windows Media Player, Real Player) you may disable "hardware acceleration" through their "settings" or "options" menu. This turns off the overlay use, the movie is played then normally, within Windows desktop and every screen capture program can get it.
Another way to turn off overlay use for video playback on most system is to disable "hardware acceleration" of your graphics controller in the following way:
- right click empty Windows screen, select "Properties" from the menu
- click "Settings" tab
- click "Advanced" button
- click "Troubleshoot" tab
- move the "Hardware acceleration" slider all the way to "None" and click "Apply" button. Don't close the window with this slider yet, as you later want to re-set it back to "Full"
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Video playing on Windows machine, no matter if it comes from a movie file, Internet, VCD or DVD, can not be captured by regular screen capture methods, because it is usually playing in a hardware overlay. The overlay it almost as if there was another, smaller screen in front of your regular Windows desktop screen. The desktop contains in that place only the so called "overlay key color" - a solid block of color, usually black, blue, magenta or pink, but it can be anything.
A regular screen capture program will capture just that key color, which gives you a funny effect - if your movie is still playing, and your captured that key color into HyperSnap-DX (or any other software) window, and you move that window so that it partly covers the movie player - you will see the movie through the part where this key color was. It seems as if your HyperSnap-DX window had a "hole" and the movie shows through it. This is because the overlay hardware controller is programmed to display that movie everywhere where that key color is on the desktop.
How to deal with this problem? There are two methods. In some movie players (e.g. Windows Media Player, Real Player) you may disable "hardware acceleration" through their "settings" or "options" menu. This turns off the overlay use, the movie is played then normally, within Windows desktop and every screen capture program can get it.
Another way to turn off overlay use for video playback on most system is to disable "hardware acceleration" of your graphics controller in the following way:
- right click empty Windows screen, select "Properties" from the menu
- click "Settings" tab
- click "Advanced" button
- click "Troubleshoot" tab
- move the "Hardware acceleration" slider all the way to "None" and click "Apply" button. Don't close the window with this slider yet, as you later want to re-set it back to "Full"
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