Video flicker in Vista

Greeting,

I am having a problem that when I view film clips, such as avi, wma,
or quicktime files, the images flicker like the really really old film
projectors. This is independent of the application (Window Media
Player, QT, VLC) showing the clip and it does not happen with web
clips from youtube.com, etc. Games do not flicker. I have tried
installing different codecs, but it didn't help. The only time there
is a flicker is when displaying a movie clip, and it is only the clip
window, not the entire screen that is affected.

It is a fairly new computer. I don't have the exact specs with me. It
has 1 gig of ram, 2 ATI video cards with SLI, one LCD monitor, Dual
core AMD with a clock speed of about 2.8 GHz running Vista home
premium.

Any suggestion on how to fix this are appreciated.


Regards,

P. Ford

Try increasing the monitor "Refresh Rate."

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Steve Easton



"pford-@bcm.tmc.edu" <> wrote in message
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> Greeting,
>
> I am having a problem that when I view film clips, such as avi, wma,
> or quicktime files, the images flicker like the really really old film
> projectors. This is independent of the application (Window Media
> Player, QT, VLC) showing the clip and it does not happen with web
> clips from youtube.com, etc. Games do not flicker. I have tried
> installing different codecs, but it didn't help. The only time there
> is a flicker is when displaying a movie clip, and it is only the clip
> window, not the entire screen that is affected.
>
> It is a fairly new computer. I don't have the exact specs with me. It
> has 1 gig of ram, 2 ATI video cards with SLI, one LCD monitor, Dual
> core AMD with a clock speed of about 2.8 GHz running Vista home
> premium.
>
> Any suggestion on how to fix this are appreciated.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> P. Ford
>

update video drivers - ie, contact ATI

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"pford-@bcm.tmc.edu" <> wrote in message
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> Greeting,
>
> I am having a problem that when I view film clips, such as avi, wma,
> or quicktime files, the images flicker like the really really old film
> projectors. This is independent of the application (Window Media
> Player, QT, VLC) showing the clip and it does not happen with web
> clips from youtube.com, etc. Games do not flicker. I have tried
> installing different codecs, but it didn't help. The only time there
> is a flicker is when displaying a movie clip, and it is only the clip
> window, not the entire screen that is affected.
>
> It is a fairly new computer. I don't have the exact specs with me. It
> has 1 gig of ram, 2 ATI video cards with SLI, one LCD monitor, Dual
> core AMD with a clock speed of about 2.8 GHz running Vista home
> premium.
>
> Any suggestion on how to fix this are appreciated.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> P. Ford
>

Thanks for the advise. Didn't help. It appears that when SLI is
enabled it flickers. Turning off SLI fixes it. I guess it is
alternating the card for the display but the software is unaware how
to handle this.

On Jun 21, 2:42 am, "ls [sb]" <.@.> wrote:
> update video drivers - ie, contact ATI
>
> --
>
> "pfo...@bcm.tmc.edu" <pf...@bcm.tmc.edu> wrote in message
>
> news: oups.com...
>
> > Greeting,
>
> > I am having a problem that when I view film clips, such as avi, wma,
> > or quicktime files, the imagesflickerlike the really really old film
> > projectors. This is independent of the application (Window Media
> > Player, QT, VLC) showing the clip and it does not happen with web
> > clips from youtube.com, etc. Games do not flicker. I have tried
> > installing different codecs, but it didn't help. The only time there
> > is aflickeris when displaying a movie clip, and it is only the clip
> > window, not the entire screen that is affected.
>
> > It is a fairly new computer. I don't have the exact specs with me. It
> > has 1 gig of ram, 2 ATI video cards with SLI, one LCD monitor, Dual
> > core AMD with a clock speed of about 2.8 GHz running Vista home
> > premium.
>
> > Any suggestion on how to fix this are appreciated.
>
> > Regards,
>
> > P. Ford