Serious Computer Problems

John Wolf · 26 Sep 2009 at 23:45

Okay first all of my saved movies in Windows Media, Divx and Quicktime have turned this weird sort of blueish white, when I try to play them and it seems to affect the footage in every saved format.

Watching stuff online such as youtube does not seem to have this severe blue/white tinge.

The second problem is that shortly before the first one, Windows Media Player when clicked on to play one of it's files on my hard drive cannot seem to windowise the box on desktop, it just looks like it tries to load up it's frame outside of desktop.

I would be very thankfull if someone could help me sort these two issues out.

alex24 · 26 Sep 2009 at 23:46

Can you play back the files with a prog like VLC OK?

geekyEd · 27 Sep 2009 at 00:00

Google search for "codec"

John Wolf · 27 Sep 2009 at 00:11

alexhull24 said:
Can you play back the files with a prog like VLC OK?

It does seem to affect the VLC Files too unfortunately

John Wolf · 27 Sep 2009 at 00:12

BluZiff said:
Google search for "codec"

I''ve already checked Codec out and the lite packs do not seem to work, since it came from Overclockers.

geekyEd · 27 Sep 2009 at 00:23

ok so what format are these movies? What are you attempting to play them in? Where did they come from?

(Disclaimer: I may be more helpful sober)

John Wolf · 27 Sep 2009 at 00:25

BluZiff said:
ok so what format are these movies? What are you attempting to play them in? Where did they come from?

(Disclaimer: I may be more helpful sober)

MPEG-4, Divx and MWA Mostly From Gametrailers.com

geekyEd · 27 Sep 2009 at 00:36

sorry nothing is springing to mind, Id personally uninstall all codecs completely and start from step one. Did this start because of something you installed or have there been any significant changes to the system that could have caused this?

John Wolf · 27 Sep 2009 at 00:38

There's only one thing I can think of that could be related, I did uninstall windows media player classic and with it some codecs, though if that is related then for several days there was no indication of any problem and I have since attempted to reinstall the same ones without effect.

Then I thought it might have something to do with the Nvidia control panel options, though after checking that, nothing seemed to be out of place.

This hasn't previously been problem on my XP system.