Curse

Saridley Kronah · Nov 05, 2005, 01:41 AM // 01:41

Ive been noticing lately only some windows media player files work properly on my computer, the ones that do not work show as bright colours and what looks to be 16 bit weirdness. Anybody know if there is some way i can fix this?

Techie · Nov 07, 2005, 03:52 AM // 03:52

Actually this happens sometimes when video files are not encoded properly. It doesn't mean your card has an issue, usually it is the file.

EternalTempest · Nov 07, 2005, 11:41 PM // 23:41

If your getting a color smearing effect, MS has patch - http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;895181

I personally use Windows Media Player Classic (not an MS product) to view most video. It uses and direct show filters installed with windows (what wmp uses to play files) but far better resource usage and non-bloated interface. It does not have a "media" library mind you. http://www.divx-digest.com/software/...r_classic.html

An alt would be VLC Player, it has the codex's bundled in - http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

Agree with Techie, it's the way it's encoded, or you need to update the video codex used to play that file. If it's an Mpeg4 you can use Xvid, DivX, for FFDshow to play back such files. I perfer DivX but most aggre that FFDshow is better for playback, and Xvid is better for encoding.