Video Display Problem - Please Help.

Hi - I just started getting this weird video problem when playing movies.
The movies are extremely dark (blue/black) and I cannot see any detail
except for the brightest of whites. It happens when playing DVD movies with
PowerDVD, wmv and avi DivX files with Windows Media Player, dvr-ms files
with the Media Centre, and FLV files played with the Vuze flv player.
However, I can play mpg video files using Apple Quicktime without a problem,
which makes me think I have a codec problem rather than a hardware problem.

Recently I installed a few applications but uninstalled them when I noticed
the problem. This didn't help. I also ran Dell Diagnostics at start-up and
all seems well. I'm running Vista Ultimate SP1 on a new Dell M1530 T9500
notebook with 4GM RAM and 256 MB GeForce 8600M GT graphics.

Any help appreciated.

Reinstalled DivX codec, thinking that was the problem, but it wasn't. Help
please...

"pbl" <> wrote in message
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> Hi - I just started getting this weird video problem when playing movies.
> The movies are extremely dark (blue/black) and I cannot see any detail
> except for the brightest of whites. It happens when playing DVD movies
> with
> PowerDVD, wmv and avi DivX files with Windows Media Player, dvr-ms files
> with the Media Centre, and FLV files played with the Vuze flv player.
> However, I can play mpg video files using Apple Quicktime without a
> problem,
> which makes me think I have a codec problem rather than a hardware
> problem.
>
> Recently I installed a few applications but uninstalled them when I
> noticed
> the problem. This didn't help. I also ran Dell Diagnostics at start-up
> and
> all seems well. I'm running Vista Ultimate SP1 on a new Dell M1530 T9500
> notebook with 4GM RAM and 256 MB GeForce 8600M GT graphics.
>
> Any help appreciated.
>

"pbl" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Hi - I just started getting this weird video problem when playing movies.
> The movies are extremely dark (blue/black) and I cannot see any detail
> except for the brightest of whites. It happens when playing DVD movies
> with
> PowerDVD, wmv and avi DivX files with Windows Media Player, dvr-ms files
> with the Media Centre, and FLV files played with the Vuze flv player.
> However, I can play mpg video files using Apple Quicktime without a
> problem,
> which makes me think I have a codec problem rather than a hardware
> problem.
>
> Recently I installed a few applications but uninstalled them when I
> noticed
> the problem. This didn't help. I also ran Dell Diagnostics at start-up
> and
> all seems well. I'm running Vista Ultimate SP1 on a new Dell M1530 T9500
> notebook with 4GM RAM and 256 MB GeForce 8600M GT graphics.
>
Well, I would do a Restore back to a point before you started doing
anything, to a point when things were working correctly.

Duh! Problem sorted. Somehow or another brightness had been set to zero in
the NVIDIA control panel. Now to reinstall those apps I'd uninstalled!

"pbl" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Hi - I just started getting this weird video problem when playing movies.
> The movies are extremely dark (blue/black) and I cannot see any detail
> except for the brightest of whites. It happens when playing DVD movies
> with
> PowerDVD, wmv and avi DivX files with Windows Media Player, dvr-ms files
> with the Media Centre, and FLV files played with the Vuze flv player.
> However, I can play mpg video files using Apple Quicktime without a
> problem,
> which makes me think I have a codec problem rather than a hardware
> problem.
>
> Recently I installed a few applications but uninstalled them when I
> noticed
> the problem. This didn't help. I also ran Dell Diagnostics at start-up
> and
> all seems well. I'm running Vista Ultimate SP1 on a new Dell M1530 T9500
> notebook with 4GM RAM and 256 MB GeForce 8600M GT graphics.
>
> Any help appreciated.
>

uninstall any codec packs that you have(if you can), and install
Combined Community Codec Pack, or CCCP(google it). has everything you
need.

if there aren't any codecs that you can just uninstall, be sure to
select cccp is selected as the default codec to use for the extensions
that are causing you trouble. hope it helps!


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pbl:

Hi, my name's Cody, and I'm working with the Windows Media Outreac
Team to help answer questions folks might have about their Windows Medi
Experience.

I'm glad to see that you got your problem fixed. Adding t
Andrews1007's response, I'd also recommend downloading a codec tool tha
will analyze your particular video file and tell you exactly wha
codec(s) you’ll need to play the files.

Here are a couple of free tools that will do this for you: Gspo
('GSpot Codec Information Appliance' (http://www.headbands.com/gspot/)
and Sherlock ('SHERLOCK - The Codec Detective - FREE Codec Chec
Checking Utility!
(http://www.updatexp.com/sherlock-codec-detective.html)) Both of thes
work great, and using these on your file will tell you what codecs yo
need to get a file running properly, without making you downloa
anything that you don’t need.

A lot of times codecs can conflict with one another, and overloadin
your system with a whole them is never a good idea, and having a whol
bunch of them can often cause more problems than they solve.

I hope this was helpful!

Thanks,

Cody
Windows Media Outreach Tea

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