Video Playback Problems

[HailBallz]

I know this isn't hardware but...

I'm having trouble with video playback on my computer. ASF's and AVI's aren't playing properly. When I watch them with anything media player, divx, or ati multimedia center the video is clipped, i.e. I don't see the whole video. I have no idea what's going on. Has anybody had similar problems? Do I need to download new codecs or something?

 

[HailBallz]

Anybody got some advice?

 

[ScottMac]

By "clipped," do you mean it's too short (doesn't play the entire video), or it's overrunning the border of the monitor (or something like the heads are all above the upper margin)?

Scott

 

[HailBallz]

It's overunning the border of the player, in any player I use. If I run it full screen the video is out beyond the border of the monitor. So by "I don't see the whole thing", I mean I don't see the whole picture, but everything seems to play through fine. I just tried to play a DVD and it's doing the same thing.

 

[ScottMac]

It sounds like you have your monitor raster stretched too far.

Bring in the raster (withthe monitor controls on the front of the monitor), then use the video card "control panel" to stretch the image to the edge of the raster.

(raster is the area that lights up on the front of the monitor - the area scanned by the electron beam)

If this is happening to a TV, you're out of luck if there's no "underscan" button or setting.

Good Luck

Scott

 

[HailBallz]

I'll try that but I don't think it's my monitor because when the video is windowed it's still clipped. Could it be a codec problem? I've reformatted my computer a bunch of times and this is the first time i've had this problem.

 

[HailBallz]

I still have the problem. I don't want to reformat, but that's what I'll probably have to do.