Video white screen solved?

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David Mazurek

We've been trying to figure out why WMV & MPG files are
playing back on some of our XP Pro computers & not
others. The video would not play back but instead give us
a white screen & nothing else.

We tried reinstalling XP, updating video drivers,
updating Windows Media Player with no results.

I came across mention in a newsgroup about DRM (maybe
this one, it is all a blur).

We found that when the video files were copied from the
ORIGINATING computer (video captured with WMM through the
firewire port), the video played fine.

If the video files were copied from another computer (in
this case a redundant backup running Windows 2000) the
videos played not at all.

If this is part of the Microsoft Digital Rights
Management initiative, I need to find out how to disable
it. I frequently create Powerpoint presentations on one
of my desktop systems & move the finished presentation(s)
to the laptops when I hit the road. Video is created on
other desktop systems & before you know it, I'm running
around trying to figure what system created what portions
of the presentation. Is DRM indeed the cause of the
dilemma we are experiencing here? It seems so, but any
input on this issue is most welcome...


Thanks,

David E Mazurek
Media Design Group, Inc.
 
That sounds odd. I don't think DRM goes that far at this point. Do the
files play on the redundant backup? It sounds more like a case of a
corrupted file on the backup machine. Can you copy one of the "bad files"
from the redundant to the original machine and will it play?
 
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