This one has me stumped. I have Windows XP Professional, with all the
necessary updates (ie: service pack 1, security updates, etc.) About
a month ago, out of no where (I think) Windows Media Player started
playing videos all messed up. The video files would be all zoomed in
and the quality would be very poor. It's not as simple as choosing -
Zoom In/Out. I thought it was the player (Windows Media Player 9
beta) so I tried a different player. The same thing happened. I
cannot play any media files correctly on my computer. This includes
DVD's, mpegs, divx, any video file. I went to microsoft's website and
asked in one of those hard to find support forums but I didn't get a
response.
The solution to the problem:
Option #1:
If I open one media player, open any video file, play then pause it.
Then open up another media player (which can be different from the
former) and play the video I want to play it will play correctly and
the quality will be back to normal. It's getting annoying doing this
everytime I play a video and I don't want to do option #2.
Option #2: Reformat
What I've already tried to do (after each case I tried to see if it
fixed it):
Use various media players:
mplayer2.exe (default)
PowerDVD (also messes up playing regular dvd's)
Windows Media Player 9
etc.
Install an older media player over the new one
Reinstall latest
Reinstall video drivers
Upgrade video drivers
Downgrade video drivers
Update video codecs
Reinstall video codecs
Reinstall divx
Uninstall sp1 (service pack 1)
Reinstall sp1
I may have forgot to mention other things I've tried.
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Request for Question Clarification by
seizer-ga
on
10 Nov 2002 14:27 PST
Have you at any point installed Nimo Codec Pack (any build, but
particularly build 8)?
Does the problem also occur with:
ZoomPlayer: http://www.inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_download.shtml
BSPlayer: http://www.bsplay.com/downloads.php?cat=bsplay
Any other details you can think of are always useful to any researcher
who takes this on.
Thanks,
--seizer-ga
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Clarification of Question by
technique-ga
on
10 Nov 2002 17:30 PST
I installed the Nimo Codec Pack (I believe version 5.0) as an attempt
to fix this problem. It did not work. I still have them installed.
I tried the Zoom Player (ironic name) and BSPlayer neither of which
worked (same zoomed in and low quality picture).
Should I remove nimo codec pack version 5? install version 8?
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Request for Question Clarification by
seizer-ga
on
10 Nov 2002 18:04 PST
Nimo Codec Pack is a fix it or break it type of program. I've had no
success with version 8, but you might.
I think the offending program is far more likely to be Media Player 9
beta. You may have noticed that Microsoft no longer offer it on
Windows Update, which suggests there are still some serious
difficulties to be ironed out. If you can, uninstall that.
Does this occur over a wide range of videos? There's no chance that
it's just a few files which have become corrupt, is there?
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Clarification of Question by
technique-ga
on
10 Nov 2002 18:22 PST
OK, this is really weird and funny at the same time. I opened up two
media players and placed them side by side on my desktop.
I opened the same file on both media players but I loaded the one on
the left first (so naturally it was zoomed in). Now I wanted to take
a screenshot of the two players side by side but usually what happens
when you take a screenshot of a video it appears black when pasted
into an image editor.
I forgot, but this did not happen.
It appeared to show up perfectly in MS Paint.
*** The following is a little hard to explain. If you're lost just
ignore it. When I refer to left player and right player I mean within
the pasted image in paint.
But, when I scroll the image vertically, the image in the left player
(ZOOMED IN) did not scroll with the image. It remained static within
the image and the left media player's display was like a mask
(photoshop term). If I close both media players the left player's
(ZOOMED IN) image was removed. Note: the right player's was pasted
correctly into paint and was unchanged throughout this whole thing.
If this really confused everyone just ignore it, but it seems to be
related to the problem I'm having. The bottom line: I should not be
able to make a print screen of any video using the default print
screen button. But it seemed to work partially on my system.
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