Clips just primary colours

willydeluxe · Post by **willydeluxe** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 10:45 am

Something wierd has happened to clips I downloaded and some I already had: when I try to play them in WMPlayer all I see are shapes and colours - bright blues and greens and stuff: you can make out the proper image shapes underneath but it's all just colour, no tones.

The thumbnail view shows the correct image: they play correctly in Video LAN and most of them in Nero Player. The very few I tried to edit in VS9 worked fine, and the resulting Mpeg was fine and playable everywhere - until today. Now, although the thumbnail in the library shows correctly, and in the timeline they show correctly, as soon as I play them they go all silly.

This is NOT a VS9 problem/fault - I'm not saying that: this is following my most recent XP install.
I installed WMPlayer 10 over that which comes with VS9.
I have XPCodec Pack 1.3.0 installed. I don't remember (and maybe this is the point) if I had any other codecs installed or what they were.)
I cannot roll back to an earlier restore point.

Any suggestions and help would be, as usual, welcome.

Post by **lancecarr** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 11:53 am

Go into the device manager and check that your display adapter is shown as functioning. Also check to see if the display drivers are up to date.

willydeluxe · Post by **willydeluxe** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 12:08 pm

Just discovered this: with the clip in the timeline:
running the slider manually I see the image corectly;
playing the clip in Preview mode I se it correctly;
playing it in Clip mode it's all funky colours.

willydeluxe · Post by **willydeluxe** » Wed Apr 19, 2006 7:38 pm

In case anyone's interested it was .... A Codec Moment.

Computers....dontcha just love 'em?