Wierd colors

[T Cunningham]

Playing mpegs in any media player on my machine (winplayer, nero,
winamp) gives me a washed out image with overly intense colors
underneath the white-ish fog. Anyone have any ideas about a fix?
Thanks!

 

[Graham Hughes]

try updating the graphics card drivers and the dvd playing app first.

 

[Chuck Yeager]

I've made several post requesting help with this same problem. I've replace everything except the
backspace key. I don't think mine is a driver issue, as have updated and or replaced all I could.
It's in WMP 9. Only it screws up the colors. QuickTime and Real play the same mpg's and avi's fine.
Only solution I've found was to reduce WMP's video acceleration to the halfway mark, with the
resulting loss of quality.........but at least now I can view them. If I reduce the acceleration on
the video adapter, it has no effect.......only WMP's acceleration!!!!!!!!

And to make it more maddening, I found 2 avi's (but no mpg's) that it will play with full
acceleration.

What I would give for a solution other than the generic "replace the drivers" answer. How would one
search for and replace video codecs and dll's?

 

[Graham Hughes]

Check out
http://www.headbands.com/gspot/
which will tell you which codec the avi was made with.
Ask in the mediaplayer newsgroup as to how to go about installing it for
WMP.
Also have a look at Marc's website, www.updatexp.com particualrly here
http://www.updatexp.com/codec-for-windows-media-player-9.html
Marc is also releasing a codec checker to ensure the codecs you have are
installed correctly, should be available on the 26th.
Hope this is more help than the driver bit.

Graham