Video Display Problem - Please Help.

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

"pbl" <pbl@no.email> 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" <pbl@no.email> 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.
>
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" <pbl@no.email> 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.
>
 
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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