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

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

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).

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.

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.

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

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



Tools -> Options -> Performance -> Advanced

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.

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

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

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

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??

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.

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.

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.

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

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?

Three items in the registry affecting media player.

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.

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.

Nothing new on codecs that I can tell.

(sigh)

I guess its time for ANOTHER reformat.