Green screen

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Mr. Sandman

Can someone help please? When I try to stream video and the media settings
have detected WMP, I get sound but a green blank screen. I'm running WMP 11.
I have Googled and tried a few things. Nothing works. Everything else works
fine. Free of worms, trojans and virus.

Many hanks in advance.

Sandman.
 
The problem is only with IE7 and WMP 11 for embedded video, apparently. What is odd is that ads, like on CNN, NBC, etc. play fine but the main video does not. Sometimes the screen is not just green but garbled or is displayed with a lot of noise, as if in a really reduced screen ratio and number of colors.

A work-around is to launch WMP, in Options, turn the accelerator all the way down. This will disable DirectX and may interfere with some games but otherwise it will solve the issue.

Since this might be directly related to DirectX (no pun intended), Firefox should not be subjected to it.

HTH...

Roland Hall


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