Windows Media Player 12 (video playback issue)

steve1873 · 25 Oct 2009 at 20:56

Having problems with video playback using WM12. Video seems to be pixallated, sharpened to the extreme and colours are off. Playing the same videos in VLC (1.0.3) has none of these issues.

WM12

VLC

Anybody any ideas?

Montegue · 26 Oct 2009 at 01:01

I noticed this the other day after I got my Win7 and installed it, was watching some HD tv episodes I downloaded and a few films. I was left stumped wondering why the blocky pixels were there, thus did a google seach. It seems VLC 1.0.2 has some issues with the rendering in win7, VLC 1.0.3 seems to resolve this issue albeit still not as good as it used to be. I guess the final VLC release will be up to scratch as previous versions when released.

Never used WM12 or the latter.

Locke · 26 Oct 2009 at 01:21

steve1873 said:
Anybody any ideas?

Yeah, use VLC from this day forward.

BloodyL · 26 Oct 2009 at 01:43

Have you installed any codec packs?
I can only presume that WMP is using it's own codec, whereas I've installed FFDshow and do not have the issue you are seeing with WMP12.