Media Player playback issue

[olderrocker]

Hello all

When playing mpgs,avis, etc on my IBM laptop the screen goes blank and pulses for a few seconds before playing. The same then happens when the movie ends.
I have the latest version of Media player and video drivers installed.
Has anyone seen this before?? any help appreciated
Thank you .....

 

[synthetic666]

does it play the movie or not cause my ibm labby dose the same thing what is its modle number cause i had to flash my bios to correct it ???????







Rock On!!!!!! Compute On!!!!!! Whatever Dude!!!!! lol

 

[linney]

This is a good site for problems involving Windows Media Player.

http://www.nwlink.com/~zachd/pss/pss.html

And maybe this one too.

http://members.tripod.com/cordy_net

 

[Turkbear]

Hi,
Watch out for that tripod site..Many pop-ups and ads.

Very annoying ( most tripod sites have this problem, I try to avoid it altogether)..

 

[olderrocker]

Hi again - sorry for not getting back - bit of a family crisis.

Anyway I've discovered that this occurs when booting from a hibernation state only. When I to a complete reboot the mpgs, etc play fine. Hibernate and try again, the original problem occurs - strange one

Has anyone any ideas as hibernation is quick and I would hate to think that I have to reboot everytime I want to play vids etc? - thanks in advance. - Del

 

[jrbarnett]

Is your DirectX working properly? Go to start -> run -> dxdiag.exe and see what it says.

John

 

[linney]

If you check under Hibernation in Help and Support (while online) the are several bugs reported throughout the history of hibernation.

For example.

282822 - MIDI Playback Through the MPU-401 Port Changes Tempo Unexpectedly After Resuming from Hibernation

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;282822&FR=1&PA=1&SD=HSCH

Maybe you should report your example to Microsoft.



One thing you could try is running the System File Checker program from the Run Box by typing.....Sfc /Scannow in it and have your XP CD handy.

 

[SYAR2003]

Maybe this one applies to your case:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;830234

syar