Isn't anyone else getting corruption in WMP?

[Chiles4]

I've been getting rainbow-colored corruption in WMP ever since I installed an X1900GT several months ago. I started with the Cat 6.9s and tried various flavors (vanilla, Omegas, ZeroPoints) and all gave me the same problem. And this is on a freshly built system. I then moved up to the 6.11s and the problem was still there.

I just read a post over at guru3d and someone seems to have the exact same problem using the 6.12s. Has anyone heard about this or experienced this? It only happens on about 40% of the videos I watch in WMP. I think I'm using WMP 9.0 - the one that installs by default when you install a system from the XP SP2 CD.

I guess I could upgrade WMP but I'm kinda surprised I haven't heard anything about this. The files are typical WMA or AVI files so I wouldn't think I'd have to install a special codec.

[cdahmedeh]

can you post any screen to see your corruption .?

[Uber_Tiny]

it's a codec.

Download DivX and it should go away.

[smerrick]

Correcting the rainbow-colored playback

Hey Chiles4,

I discovered this type of problem on one of my ATI systems. I found the solution myself, though I don't know if anyone else has documented it yet. It should work for you too.

Try going into Windows Media Player. I'm using version 9 as an example, but it is similar for the newer players too. On the TOOLS menu, choose OPTIONS, then PERFORMANCE tab. Click the ADVANCED button, and look for Video Acceleration. Make sure to clear (if not already) the USE VIDEO MIXING RENDERER box.

This should correct your problem, and provide beautiful color video playback. However, you may find that you can not re-position the playback marker (forward or backward) in a video. You will have to watch the video in normal, forward-only sequence.

Please let me know if this corrects your problem!

smerrick

[AbAqS]

or turn off Windows Media Video Acceleration under Video in Catalyst Control Center..

[Dr. Zhivago]

Exactly.

[Dr. Zhivago]

Hey, I just did a search and found this:

http://www.citizeninsomniac.com/WMV/

Based on what I read in this thread:

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=776248

I haven't tried it yet because I had the same issues with WMP11 and went back to WMP10 when I was running Windows XP. Since moving to MCE, I have stayed with WMP10 for the same reason.

Now that this tool is available, I wil install WMP11 and report my findings.

Hope that helps!

[Dr. Zhivago]

Update: So I installed WMP11 and I can confirm that WMV Acceleration now works with it and there is no longer colorful coruption when playing WMV files or any other supported giles for that matter.

As the thread above mentioned, there is now a "Turn on DirectX Video Accleration" checkbox in the Performance Options/Advanced section which was not present in WMP11 originally. I do not need to use the tool I linked for WMV Acceleration to work. When enabled, while playing WMV HD content, there is a 20-30% reduction in CPU usage when this checkbox is ticked.

HTH!

Peace.

[Chiles4]

Thanks for all the feedback. I'll give these suggestions a shot.

[Dr. Zhivago]

Let us know how it goes.