Windows Media Player pixellation

[numcrun]

When I transfer from my camcorder to my laptop (Toshiba Pentium II with 64MB of ram) using firewire and WinDV, the DV-AVI file plays back OK, but when I use full screen there is pixellation. Is this due to the low ram, processor or a transfer issue? The WMP is the latest version for Win 98 (7.4 I think). DMA is enabled.

Also is there a Win 98 compatible media player which has frame advance in both directions (for a golf swing)? WMP 10 does, but Win 98 doesn't support it.

Also in windows 98 if I right click an AVI file and click properties, the details tab has useful info on the video/audio formats. Where is this in Win2K?

[numcrun]

bump.

[redwudz]

You could try Zoom Player. It will do frame by frame advance and reverse and a lot more. Not sure if W98 compatible. If you are having pixelation problems with full screen, try upping the acceleration in WMP. (Should be in there somewhere in the program) If that doesn't work, maybe your video card is too slow.

[numcrun]

Thanks for that, most appreciated.

[junkmalle]

Video scaling is usually done by the graphics chipset. If you are seeing big rectangular pixles your graphics card is doing a bad job of scaling the video.

Given how old your computer is this is expected. Most graphics cards in those days used a "nearest neighbor" algorithm for scaling. That is, they just duplicated pixels to fill the desired size.