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(NEW PROBLEM) Vista-Video Issues

Charles KinboteCharles Kinbote Registered User regular
edited June 2007 in Help / Advice Forum
So I installed Vista a little while back, and the biggest problem I'm noticing is how I'm completely unable to watch any of my video files with it. I've tried WMP, RealPlayer, iTunes, Nero ShowTime, PowerDVD and VLC, to various levels of failures. All of them either don't open or lock up when they do, and VLC shows the very first frame of the video, and has the sound.

So basically, I think I need to stop throwing media players at the problem, and actually look for some other solution.
Anyone have any ideas?

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  • wunderbarwunderbar What Have I Done? Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    my first guess would be video card drivers. I'd go to ATI/nVidia's site and download the latest ones, completely un-install the old one's, then install the new one's.

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  • Charles KinboteCharles Kinbote Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    I got new drivers and still no worky, so if anyone else has any ideas...

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  • wunderbarwunderbar What Have I Done? Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    turn the aero glass off in vista, that might have something to do with it.

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  • Charles KinboteCharles Kinbote Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    wunderbar wrote: »
    turn the aero glass off in vista, that might have something to do with it.

    Don't even have that enabled, I have Home Basic.

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  • ComahawkComahawk Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    What type of video card do you have?

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  • ElectricTurtleElectricTurtle Seeress WARegistered User regular
    edited June 2007
    When you say "your videos" do you mean DVDs, MPGs, AVIs, MOVs, or all of the above? If we're talking about AVIs it could easily be a codec problem. Vista doesn't magically have DivX or XviD or whatever, but I would think you would know which files need what codec as you had to have them before so I don't know.

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  • Charles KinboteCharles Kinbote Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    ElectricTurtle wrote: »
    When you say "your videos" do you mean DVDs, MPGs, AVIs, MOVs, or all of the above? If we're talking about AVIs it could easily be a codec problem. Vista doesn't magically have DivX or XviD or whatever, but I would think you would know which files need what codec as you had to have them before so I don't know.

    They're AVI....I still have DivX, but is there anything else I should look for?

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  • ElectricTurtleElectricTurtle Seeress WARegistered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Make sure you have the latest version of DivX, and see if you need XviD. I really can't tell you what codec you might need, if you're worried about missing something you could get a codec pack like this one.

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  • ComahawkComahawk Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    It could simply come to that Vista dislikes your video card and the drivers the company who made it are putting out. I know my Geforce 7900GT was not very well liked by vista, and nvidia seemed to refuse to make working drivers.

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  • Charles KinboteCharles Kinbote Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Codecs saved the day, woo.

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  • Charles KinboteCharles Kinbote Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Damn, so, now I can watch an episode or two, but after that either WMP doesn't open at all or it opens with a blank white screen.

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