Negative Images in Windows Media Player 9

[fornax]

I'm trying to help a friend here. When she plays WMV and ASF movies on her computer, the movies look like color negative. She had a bunch of video codec packages installed on her computer, so I cleaned off those first, but still no difference. She has WMP 9 installed. I compared her list of installed codecs (from Gspot) with mine, and there are some differences. Has anyone seen those negative-image movies and knows what codec might be the cause?

 

[Extelleron]

Try installing WMP 10?

 

[Rage187]

I have seen it with older builds of Nvidia Forceware drivers.

If using and NV card, try updating to the latest drivers.

 

[Munky]

I have the same problem on my media player, and it only happened after I "updated" to SP2 and WMP9 (clean install, BTW). Before I was running SP1 and WMP8, and had no such problems. One solution I found was to disable all the advanced video features under the WMP options, such as overlays and something else. And they want me to "update" this buggy crap to an even more bloated WMP10? I want WMP8 back.

 

[fornax]

She doesn't want WMP 10. She has Nforce chipset MB but uses an ATI PCI-E card. The strange thing is that some WMV movies she had downloaded play fine, but most don't.

 

[fornax]

Thanks, munky! I'll try that. I'm still runing WMP 8 on my computer (although I do have SP2), and I can play her movies fine. Is it possible to downgrade WMP 9 to WMP 8?

 

[Bull Dog]

Go into the Video settings in WMP and completely turn off hardware acceleration. That should fix the problem. I've had the same thing before and its always eventyally just gone away after a while. I've never been able to find out what causes it, or exactly how to fix it.

 

[fornax]

Thank, Bull Dog, I'll try that too.

 

[fornax]

Bull Dog, thanks! That worked!

 

[Bull Dog]

Glad to be of help.

 

[Peter]

You might want to check whether the gamma/brightness/contrast settings for the hardware video overlay have been screwed with. They're completely separate from the normal settings, so you wouldn't notice anywhere else.