Have sound but no video on Vista media player

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#18690 19-Jan-2008 21:40

Dont know whats happened but my laptop has stopped playing video, it used to work no problems, dont think anything changed, but when I play a WMV or mpeg I get sound and the position slider moves but there is no picture, tried using media centre and same thing, tryed and aftermaket dvd player and worked a little but but the picture was green. Any ideas

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#105722 19-Jan-2008 21:48

It sounds like you need some codecs. Is this a Divx compressed or a MPEG2 video?

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#105723 19-Jan-2008 22:07

WMV files mainly, I seached for codec that I could download but as it used to work I thought it might be something else.

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#105725 19-Jan-2008 22:13

If you installed software (or anything similar, even drivers sometimes!) they could install new codecs which could confuse Windows Media Player, which could lead to your problem.

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#105726 19-Jan-2008 22:16

I was just going through a seires of clips and noticed that some home made video clips do play but not very smooth, very stop start / jerky?

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#105727 19-Jan-2008 22:17

Is your system alright with Vista (speed, reliablility...etc?)

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#105728 19-Jan-2008 22:21

yep, sure is, as said before, only recently ( last week ) that this has happened, previous nice smooth video no problems at all.

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#105735 19-Jan-2008 22:49

managed to get videos to play smooth using divx but the colours are all out??

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#106933 26-Jan-2008 20:25

Hi
Have You Tried To change your video acceleration settings as your video card could have sped up/slow down I had same problem with vista and this worked have now gone back to xp.

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#107375 29-Jan-2008 12:54

from memory in windows media player you can adjust the colour settings yourself ie the amount of blue green red etc, if you goto view->enhancements->video settings orsomething like that, worth a fiddle anyway.

also try a mediaplayer like vlc or media player classic, these take very little system resources so if you've only got 512mb ram and you're trying to play big video files then its desireable to have a mediaplayer thats not ram hungry.

also if they are massive res vids, try setting the zoom to 50%.

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