poor video quality after windows XP upgrade

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Hi,

I have reinstalled windows xp (an upgrade installation which preserves
all the progams, drivers, etc.). Then I reinstalled the right display
driver. Everything works fine, except for video playback quality, which
became poor (the colors don't look ok). Before the reinstallation it
looked fine, so it is not due to hardware limitations. It also looks
bad in mplayer2.

Is there a way to repair this without reinstalling the OS?

Thanks a lot,
Roy.
 
Hi,

I have reinstalled windows xp (an upgrade installation which preserves
all the progams, drivers, etc.). Then I reinstalled the right display
driver. Everything works fine, except for video playback quality, which
became poor (the colors don't look ok). Before the reinstallation it
looked fine, so it is not due to hardware limitations. It also looks
bad in mplayer2.
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If you are sure you installed the right drivers...
just look at "display properites" and increase the colors (and resolution)

if you have no option to do so,,,then the drivers
you installed were not correct...
but you should be able to get them from the mfg's websire
 
Hi,

I have reinstalled windows xp (an upgrade installation which preserves
all the progams, drivers, etc.). Then I reinstalled the right display
driver. Everything works fine, except for video playback quality, which
became poor (the colors don't look ok). Before the reinstallation it
looked fine, so it is not due to hardware limitations. It also looks
bad in mplayer2.

Is there a way to repair this without reinstalling the OS?

Thanks a lot,
Roy.
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Reinstalling the drivers sets to default settings. The screen resolution and
number of colours might be different to your original settings?? Right click
on the desktop and go through to advanced panel and try different colour
depths
 
Hi,

I have reinstalled windows xp (an upgrade installation which preserves
all the progams, drivers, etc.). Then I reinstalled the right display
driver. Everything works fine, except for video playback quality, which
became poor (the colors don't look ok). Before the reinstallation it
looked fine, so it is not due to hardware limitations. It also looks
bad in mplayer2.

Is there a way to repair this without reinstalling the OS?

Thanks a lot,
Roy.
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So it was an over write of an existing installation?
You may have received several on screen prompts
during the over-write, that an existing file is a more
recent version than the one you attempting to install?
When you received any such prompts what were your
actions?
Have you perfromed an online Windows critical and
recommended update?
Have you downloaded and installed any uptodate patches
from sites of installed hardware?
 
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Hi,

I have reinstalled windows xp (an upgrade installation which preserves
all the progams, drivers, etc.). Then I reinstalled the right display
driver. Everything works fine, except for video playback quality,
which became poor (the colors don't look ok). Before the
reinstallation it looked fine, so it is not due to hardware
limitations. It also looks bad in mplayer2.

Is there a way to repair this without reinstalling the OS?

Thanks a lot,
Roy.
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Install the left drivers too.

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Thanks for all the replies!
I don't think it is a problem with the display driver because the
problem is only with playing video files, not with the display in
general (it displays photos correctly).

I don't think the problem is with windows updates or with missing
drivers, because when I installed windows XP on that machine for the
first time+ the same drivers I reinstalled now, it worked well, without
downloading any windows updates or additional drivers.

So maybe the right question is: which component is in charge
specifically on playing video, and how should I repair or configure
this component?

Thanks again,
Roy.
 
What sort of video files are we talking about here..... what's the file
extension and in what resolution are they supposed to be?
 
This happens with different formats (mpeg,avi,wmv,asf). Sometimes there
is no picture at all, but usually the problem is with the colors. The
colors look too bright. Again, the problem is only with the video
playback, otherwise the display looks ok.

Thanks,
Roy.
 
Hi Roy,

I've been reading your post in the hope of finding an answer as I have the
same problem as you with the same symptoms

Have you cured it yet? I hope so then perhaps you could point me in the
right direction.

Thanks
Smiffy
 
smiffy said:
Hi Roy,

I've been reading your post in the hope of finding an answer as I have the
same problem as you with the same symptoms

Have you cured it yet? I hope so then perhaps you could point me in the
right direction.

Thanks
Smiffy
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Unsure if this the issue u are having but some of us get black and white
playback on avis with corrupted 2-5cm top/bottom screen. This area appears
as a tinted colour mine is red. Is this your issue it is due to an issue
with ie and the wmp.dll update included in latest security update Try
running dxdiag and in display tab disable all accelleration.

Any improvement?

The issue is under investigation and appears limited to nvidea cards mabybe
6800Gts
Tony
 
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