5punk

Ive been having a rather annoying issue with my new machine. It wont play videos. Does exactly the same thing regardless of codec, filetype, length/girth. The audio plays fine, but video is blank white. The correct size, just totally white. Interestingly, videos played via flash (like youtube) works fine, but some in game video (like the stuff after you finish episode one ) has been doing it too. But not all in game video.

Also, the player used doesnt seem to make a difference, as I have tried it in media player, Media Player Classic, creative mediasource and winamp.

Ive got the latest nvidia drivers, and windows is all up to date. Anything else you guys can suggest?

Something weird like the Nvidia control panel is set to output video to a TV or 2nd monitor?, there's something like a 'Auto full screen output' thing if I remember correctly.

Or something to do with your codecs perhaps

check graphics properties > troubleshooting > acceleration?

Sounds like video overlay is either not working or being redirected somewhere else.

*maybe*

Also Berk's suggestion.

Have you tried installing any codec packs to see fi this fixes the issue?

There are some really good ones out on filehippo.com.
Basically allow you to play anything and everything with just one install and no spwyware at all.

Probably worth doing, if only to rule out stuff.

I had a similar problem with my old hardware, having a black screen on all overlay videos until I opened the nvidia control panel. I didn't need to change anything in the control panel just open it up. Although I never found out what the problem was so this is not much help.

well, had a bit of a fiddle, and Its definately not the codecs. If i turn the hardware acceleration right down so that directx isnt involved, video plays (though it looks blocky as shit). Its only when directx kicks in that everything goes pear shaped.

Sounds like a driver issue to me. Does it do it with the previous drivers too?

Edit: oh, and are you running XP SP2 or Fista?

eion wrote:Sounds like a driver issue to me. Does it do it with the previous drivers too?

well, I tried some older drivers Berk pointed me at, but no joy. Dont know if its a new issue, driver wise, though, as its a new machine, and its had the problem since I built it.

Edit: oh, and are you running XP SP2 or Fista?

XP SP2. No Fista's for me till the thing works properly

Overlay RGB gamma or brightness set all the way to the top or too high?
I've seen default Nvidia settings starting out too low before.

cheeseandham wrote:Overlay RGB gamma or brightness set all the way to the top or too high?
I've seen default Nvidia settings starting out too low before.

I think this may be it, i've not seen it in aaaages, but that sounds right.

I had the same thing the other night when trying to play a vid in VLC, it was an XviD AVI, for info. Has only happened since the latest nVidia drivers.

It was fine when I rebooted, but happened again last night. I had clicked play and then switched to full screen before it had properly started to play. Closed VLC, ran it again, clicked play and let it show the first few frames before going full screen and it was okay.

Before the last nVidia rev, it would occasionally do the same thing, but with magenta, instead of white.

Edit: to clarify it only happens occasionally to me, usually most vids, even XviD ones play fine - seems more common after lengthy game playing sessions.

how utterly bizarre. I can only assume that it was the brightness settings that were doing it, but im not sure. I went in to the settings bit to see. Set everything to defaults. I wiggled them about a bit to see if it made a difference. It didnt. I hit "return to defaults". Suddenly, the video appeared. It now works fine.

Wierd. Thanks though, your suggestion fixed it (albeit, potentially by accident )

Joose wrote:Wierd. Thanks though, your suggestion fixed it (albeit, potentially by accident )

You're welcome.
No accident though, I'm just damn good!