New Graphics Card - WMP11 colour problem

[Ploper001]

I just replaced the GeForce2 MX 400 in my home PC with a GeForce 6200. I installed nVidia's latest drivers, and it works great, except that (and I'm assuming this is what's causing the problem), now when I open a DivX file in WMP11, the colours are screwed up. Basically, the colour information appears to be above where the corresponding black and white information is by like 100 pixels.

I thought it was a codec problem, so I reinstalled the K-Lite Mega Codec Pack. No help. Interestingly, all video files still play fine on Media Player Classic, just not on WMP11. And WMV files play fine in both players...


Any ideas?

 

[BadBigBen]

I would suggest you update the DX9 to the latest and see if that alleviates your problem...



Ben

"If it works don't fix it! If it doesn't use a sledgehammer..."

 

[linney]

http://www.google.com/search?q=DivX...ft:&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&startIndex=&startPage=1

http://groups.google.com/group/micr...WMP11+color+OR+colour&rnum=2#a672b2ea686e3d0a

Does the DxDiag tool tell you anything?

DirectX: Description of the DirectX Diagnostic Tool

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;190900&FR=1&PA=1&SD=HSCH

You can see if the Microsoft tool tells you anything?

Windows XP Video Decoder Checkup Utility

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...AC-0AB6-4990-943D-627E6ADE9FCB&displaylang=en

 

[Ploper001]

Wow thanks for those links I'll check them out.

Bit more info:

- This was a slipstreamed install made in December 2006 with SP2, WMP11, IE7, DirectX 9.0c, and all updates up to that point.
- I tried uninstalling WMP11...when it reverted to WMP9, the problem was gone. After reinstalling WMP11, the problem was back.

 

[Shouou]

i reccomend you uninstall the DivX & Xvid codecs you are currently using and use CCCP codec pack. Ive never had a problem with this since i switched to MMP11, amazinly WMP can even handle Matroska .mkv files now without problems.

 

[Ploper001]

OK, a few updates:

- DXDiag reports no problems and all of the tests complete fine.
- Only DivX and possibly XVid files appear to be problematic - I think it's any file that uses the "ffdshow MPEG-4 Video Decoder" according to WMP11.
- This is quite weird - if I go into WMP11's Advanced Performance Options and disable "Use High Quality Mode" then they play back in full colour fine. It's only when this box is checked that the colour problem occurs.

Obviously I want this box checked as it makes a difference to the video quality - especially on DVDs. Does any of this info help to discover what the problem could be?

 

[Ploper001]

Another update:

I've tried all of the solutions on this site:

http://forums.nvidia.com/lofiversion/index.php?t9792.html

But none have helped. YUV Output is disabled on DivX already, and even though upgrading to WMP11 is apparently meant to solve the problem, obviously it doesn't.

 

[BadBigBen]

What version of the FFDSHOW filter have you installed?

have you tried the latest (ffdshow_rev896_20070208)?

Ben

"If it works don't fix it! If it doesn't use a sledgehammer..."

 

[Ploper001]

I think the version that I'm using is rev895 since that's in the latest K-Lite Mega Codec Pack.

I installed rev896 and the problem is still there

 

[BadBigBen]

Hmmm... Strange problem indeed...

I can't repreduce the problem...

I also have WMP 11 installed, the KLite Mega Codec pack, and the latest FFDSHOW version, all playing on a nVidia 6600GT...

and am not experiencing the problems you have...

Only thing that I can think of at this moment, would be that you may need to clean out the drivers of the video card (with DriverCleaner) and then reinstall them afresh...



Ben

"If it works don't fix it! If it doesn't use a sledgehammer..."