Videos Blacked Out?!?! Codecs installed

[tacotime77]

I recently reformatted my computer using Win XP MCE 2005

And I'm having trouble playing videos (mpeg-4s in particular)
I installed all the codecs necessary (and confirmed it with g-spot) but I get a black screen when I try playing a video file

I can view quicktime (.mov) files fine

I have directX and my drivers for my monitor and vid card installed

any advice would be appreciated

thanks

[tacotime77]

I just noticed that the thumbnail of the video shows the clip ...

I dunno if that has to do with anything

[jdizzy40]

Have you installed any DVD Player software yet? Have Power DVD or NVDVD?

[redwudz]

You might try VLC Media Player. It should play most anything. It sounds like a codec problem. VLC would confirm that as it uses it's own codecs. If it works, then you might reinstall your codecs or see if one is interfering with another.

[tacotime77]

thanks for the replies

Nope haven't tried any DVD software yet...

I tried the VLC Media Player but I still get the same problem -> black screen with audio

sooooo I don't think it's a software or codec problem... hmm

[tacotime77]

A guy from a different forum had a different problem. Apparently he resetted his bios and it worked.. but the same method didn't work for me...

argh... someone please help!

I turned on the machine last week to spend some time trying to fix it. Before it booted up windows it gave me a DOS looking prompt that said "changes have been made to the cpu and cannot boot" "press F2 to enter setup or Enter to restore factory settings" so I pressed Enter to restore factory settings just so that the computer would boot up. Well after it booted up I tried to play video and it works absolutely fine in Premiere, in Movie Maker, and every other player I have installed.

[tacotime77]

any other ideas??!

[canadateck]

What kind of video card do you have? This happend to me along time ago ,the Video card was set to TV out or somthing like that,Play with those settings.

[tacotime77]

I have a GeForce FX5200

thanks, I'll try playing around with the settings

[tacotime77]

hmmm played around with the settings... no go