Windows Media Player 9 and NVIDIA drivers

[Acanthus]

This is now the 5th driver in a row from NVIDIA that has some kind of bug with playing videos in WMP9. What is the friggin problem really??

Before it was display corruption when loading videos, reloading the videos fixed, then it was all out freezing during playback, now its crashing while transitioning to new videos (61.77/FX5600).

Ive submitted a bugreport to nvidia... but this is getting very old.

 

[Marsumane]

you sure this is the problem? do u run drivercleaner ever? that my fix your problem.

 

[Schadenfroh]

no problems like that here, XPProSP1/4200 128mb. go with what marsumane said about driver cleaner, trie a fresh driver install

 

[jim1976]

Originally posted by: Acanthus
This is now the 5th driver in a row from NVIDIA that has some kind of bug with playing videos in WMP9. What is the friggin problem really??

Before it was display corruption when loading videos, reloading the videos fixed, then it was all out freezing during playback, now its crashing while transitioning to new videos (61.77/FX5600).

Ive submitted a bugreport to nvidia... but this is getting very old.

It's definately not Nvidia's problem. I create lots of 3d and mpeg-2 videos that my Premiere or other video players support just fine but hang on WMP9. It's the buggiest player I've ever seen. There's always conflict in drivers.

:disgust:

 

[Cerb]

Originally posted by: jim1976

Originally posted by: Acanthus
This is now the 5th driver in a row from NVIDIA that has some kind of bug with playing videos in WMP9. What is the friggin problem really??

Before it was display corruption when loading videos, reloading the videos fixed, then it was all out freezing during playback, now its crashing while transitioning to new videos (61.77/FX5600).

Ive submitted a bugreport to nvidia... but this is getting very old.

It's definately not Nvidia's problem. I create lots of 3d and mpeg-2 videos that my Premiere or other video players support just fine but hang on WMP9. It's the buggiest player I've ever seen. There's always conflict in drivers.

:disgust:

I don't create any videos, but after a few months, most Windows installs of mine have problems w/ WMP, whether ATI or NVidia. Zoomplayer seems to automagically work. Go figure.

 

[Acanthus]

Ill be more specific, after trying dozens of betas and screwing around with driver clearner and formats... I have figured this out to be an NVIDIA specific driver issue with WMP9.

The only working drivers for WMP9 in its current up to patch form on Win2k Pro / FX5600 / WMP9 seems to be the 56.xx betas, which have video game bugs.

I also do work on premiere and Pinnacle Studio 8.1 and have no problems.

The current issue with the 61.77 drivers is very specific, it cuts off the last 20 seconds of a movie and crashes to desktop with no error, or crashes on the load of a video in the playlist. It doesnt seem to have any rhyme or reason to it, and does it on all 4 diff kinds of video files i use (MPG, AVI, WMV, YUV2).

 

[Gamingphreek]

Hmm well maybe Microsoft is having some problems. Why dont you try downloading the beta version of Windows Media Player 10. Im running it and i like it a lot better than WM9.

-Kevin

 

[jim1976]

Originally posted by: Acanthus
Ill be more specific, after trying dozens of betas and screwing around with driver clearner and formats... I have figured this out to be an NVIDIA specific driver issue with WMP9.

The only working drivers for WMP9 in its current up to patch form on Win2k Pro / FX5600 / WMP9 seems to be the 56.xx betas, which have video game bugs.

I also do work on premiere and Pinnacle Studio 8.1 and have no problems.

The current issue with the 61.77 drivers is very specific, it cuts off the last 20 seconds of a movie and crashes to desktop with no error, or crashes on the load of a video in the playlist. It doesnt seem to have any rhyme or reason to it, and does it on all 4 diff kinds of video files i use (MPG, AVI, WMV, YUV2).

Well I don't know about this specific issue since I own a 9800pro for 13-14 months now.
As I said I have various issues with WMP9. Every other video player runs them fine.
So I try to avoid it since it's not much help anyway.

 

[Leon]

Why use WMP9 in the first place?

 

[Acanthus]

Originally posted by: Leon
Why use WMP9 in the first place?

Because there is no other player that does video/audio/encoding so well (when it works).

Realplayer sucks
Winamp now sucks
Quicktime doesnt support common video formats
Nero Showtime isnt free

Whatd i miss for video and audio players that support all the common codecs?

I dont want to use more than one player.

 

[Acanthus]

Originally posted by: Gamingphreek
Hmm well maybe Microsoft is having some problems. Why dont you try downloading the beta version of Windows Media Player 10. Im running it and i like it a lot better than WM9.

-Kevin

Does it run in win2k? and do you have a link?

A search on MS download center found nothing.

 

[Gamingphreek]

Dont search the Download Center. At the top right hand corner of the screen it says sear microsoft (at the microsoft home page). Do a search for Windows Media Player 10. And it should find it if not ill get ya a link.

Not sure if it runs on 2000.. it should though.

-Kevin

 

[Gamingphreek]

Oops nevermind the beta is only for XP. Sry.

-Kevin

 

[Acanthus]

thx anyway Gph

 

[Acanthus]

anyone else know of an all-in-one video player? It must support all popular codecs and full screen capability, as well as all video formats (within reason)

 

[Childs]

Originally posted by: Acanthus
anyone else know of an all-in-one video player? It must support all popular codecs and full screen capability, as well as all video formats (within reason)

VLC. For WM9 movies to play all you have to do is install the codec. I haven't bothered with any other player for more than a year now.

EDIT: Sorry for the grammar and missing link.

Video Lan Client

 

[Acanthus]

Originally posted by: Childs

Originally posted by: Acanthus
anyone else know of an all-in-one video player? It must support all popular codecs and full screen capability, as well as all video formats (within reason)

Vlc. For WM9 movies you play all you have to do is install the codec. I have bothered with any other player for more than a year now.

VIc?

link or more info?

 

[dawks]

Originally posted by: Acanthus

Originally posted by: Childs

Originally posted by: Acanthus
anyone else know of an all-in-one video player? It must support all popular codecs and full screen capability, as well as all video formats (within reason)

Vlc. For WM9 movies you play all you have to do is install the codec. I have bothered with any other player for more than a year now.

VIc?

link or more info?

Video Lan Client

 

[Acanthus]

Ill give it a shot, backing up now as the site looks a little goofy to me

 

[dawks]

Originally posted by: Acanthus
Ill give it a shot, backing up now as the site looks a little goofy to me

Its open source and been in development for a long time. Its a good clean program.

 

[Childs]

Sorry for the grammar and missing link.

Video Lan Client

As I was saying earlier its the only player I use now. I don't have to worry about codecs, supported OSes, etc. hahahahaha...no need to backup, these guys are great.

 

[Gurck]

Originally posted by: Leon
Why use WMP9 in the first place?

 

[JackHawksmoor]

I've been using Nvidia cards since the TNT1, and I've never had any problems like those described...

 

[wraith3k]

media player classic

best media player ever and it plays every format.

 

[Acanthus]

Originally posted by: JackHawksmoor
I've been using Nvidia cards since the TNT1, and I've never had any problems like those described...

you had a tnt1 when windows 2000 came out?

nice.