Strange Windos Media player problem

Alyeska · Post by **Alyeska** » 2004-09-06 12:35am

All of a sudden today every movie I play over WM is fogged up for some reason. EVERY movie. Restarted, didn't fix it.

The Kernel · Post by **The Kernel** » 2004-09-06 12:49am

Hmm, sounds like it's probably your graphics card overlay settings. Go into Display Properties and make sure they are set at default levels.

Vertigo1 · Post by **Vertigo1** » 2004-09-06 12:50am

fogged up?! Could you be a little more descriptive?

Does this happen in only media player? You might want to play videos in something else (like PowerDVD).

darthdavid · Post by **darthdavid** » 2004-09-06 12:53am

Try out something else like quicktime or winamp or divx or something and if that has problems too then it's likely a videcard settings issue.

Alyeska · Post by **Alyeska** » 2004-09-06 10:06am

Quicktime is working just fine.

And fogged up isn't being deceptive. Every single movie I play in window media looks like its foggy when I watch them. Greyed out over the entire screen.

Executor32 · Post by **Executor32** » 2004-09-06 02:29pm

It sounds like it might be WMP's video settings. Can you give us a screenshot?

Vertigo1 · Post by **Vertigo1** » 2004-09-06 03:17pm

This is what mine look like. Compare them to yours.

Tools -> Options -> Performance -> Advanced

salixfire · Post by **salixfire** » 2004-09-06 03:18pm

I think I have the same problem as you but the video was fogged in Quicktime, Windows media player and DivX player. I managed to fix it by turning off the graphics hardware acceleration in the display properties -> settings -> advanced -> troubleshoot.

Vertigo1 · Post by **Vertigo1** » 2004-09-06 03:52pm

Ok, it appears that his wmplayer install is b0rked somehow. I've got him downloading v9 (he's running 8 ).

Alyeska · Post by **Alyeska** » 2004-09-09 01:44pm

Whatever the problem is it is now worse then ever. The movies are almost completely blurred out.

Faram · Post by **Faram** » 2004-09-09 02:08pm

Vertigo1 wrote:Ok, it appears that his wmplayer install is b0rked somehow. I've got him downloading v9 (he's running 8 ).

If he has XP get WMP 10 instead

thecreech · Post by **thecreech** » 2004-09-09 02:23pm

I don't want to hijack the thread but can anyone explain to me why when i rip music on WMP it records it with a weird chiming sound in the back round of the songs??

Vertigo1 · Post by **Vertigo1** » 2004-09-09 04:42pm

Faram wrote:
Vertigo1 wrote:Ok, it appears that his wmplayer install is b0rked somehow. I've got him downloading v9 (he's running 8 ).
If he has XP get WMP 10 instead

Uhh...no thanks. Thats even more bloated than MP7 ever considered being. Utter garbage.

Vertigo1 · Post by **Vertigo1** » 2004-09-09 04:44pm

thecreech wrote:I don't want to hijack the thread but can anyone explain to me why when i rip music on WMP it records it with a weird chiming sound in the back round of the songs??

No idea. You might want to give CDex a shot. It'll rip your CDs into whatever format you choose as well as uncompressed WAV files on your HD.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2004-09-09 05:04pm

Bah, EAC is better than CDex

As for WMP10, I might just grab it for the codecs, but I usually use Media Player Classic anyways.

Alyeska · Post by **Alyeska** » 2004-09-09 05:16pm

I ran SSD and now the problem is to what it was when I first posted this thread.

Vertigo1 · Post by **Vertigo1** » 2004-09-09 07:16pm

phongn wrote:Bah, EAC is better than CDex As for WMP10, I might just grab it for the codecs, but I usually use Media Player Classic anyways.

and LAME (command line) beats both.

Alyeska: What did it pick up?

Alyeska · Post by **Alyeska** » 2004-09-09 09:25pm

Three items in the registry affecting media player.

Alyeska · Post by **Alyeska** » 2004-09-29 07:01pm

Now something very screwy is going on here.

I ran CWS Shredder, Adaware, and SSD. Didn't help.

But this is where things are strange. I am having this SAME problem with Power DVD with my DVD movies and even Winamp is having the same fucking problem.

Lord Poe · Post by **Lord Poe** » 2004-09-29 08:37pm

Alyeska, have you accepted any recent updates or codecs? Player problems happened to me once, when I installed a few codecs that didn't agree with my system. I did a system restore from a week before the problem began, and everything was fine.

Alyeska · Post by **Alyeska** » 2004-09-29 09:25pm

Nothing new on codecs that I can tell.

(sigh)

I guess its time for ANOTHER reformat.

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