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Old May 29, 2006 | 01:07 AM
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Hey guys I am having a problem when I am viewing certain videos. Both in WMP and on the sites themselves. The colors get all inverted and are mostly green pink and orange. I have no idea why this is happening, the vids work fine on my other computer. I tried to post a screen shot but where the video is is just black on the screen shot. I am going to update my video card drivers, but is there anything else I should be looking for? Thanks.
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Old May 29, 2006 | 01:51 AM
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Sounds trivial, I know, but have you tried restarting your computer?
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Old May 29, 2006 | 01:52 AM
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Sounds trivial, I know, but have you tried restarting your computer?
Yeah, this has been an ongoing problem. I always tell everyone to start by doing that when I'm helping other people.
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Old May 29, 2006 | 03:15 AM
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Updating your video card drivers is a good starting point. But which windows are you running? (I'm guessing 2000/xp). I'm running WMP 9.00 but just open WMP and go to View/Enhancements/Video Settings and click the thing that says reset. Hopefully that was your prob.
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Old May 29, 2006 | 06:11 AM
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Do you have the proper codecs for the files?
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Old May 29, 2006 | 07:42 AM
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Hmmm dont know if this could help but what about your monitors refresh Rate?
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Originally Posted by Cheetah
Do you have the proper codecs for the files?

Yep you do have a CODEC problem. Download a spyware free CODEC package. That will fix you right up.
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Originally Posted by Shadow
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Do you have the proper codecs for the files?

Yep you do have a CODEC problem. Download a spyware free CODEC package. That will fix you right up.
What do you recomend? I installed K-Lite Codec pack, which I've used in the past, and i'm still having that problem.
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Originally Posted by Sully1742
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Do you have the proper codecs for the files?

Yep you do have a CODEC problem. Download a spyware free CODEC package. That will fix you right up.
What do you recomend? I installed K-Lite Codec pack, which I've used in the past, and i'm still having that problem.
I had the same problem a well. Think the CODEC pack I installed was called NEMO but not sure.
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