Every file format except .mov looks like crap on my system, why?

[mr_coffee]

Hello everyone!

I'm having issues with playing video back that doesn't look terriable. If I try to play .avis, or .mpgs, they look very bad. The colors are all neon looking and bright and grainy. If i play back any type of .mov (A quicktime moovie file) it looks perfect! I don't understand it. In other peoples computers the video looks fine and my system doesn't have a bad video card. Its a 6800 gt, 256 meg DDR. 3.4 intel, 2 gigs of DDR533 ram, any ideas?

I tried several video playbacks, such as, VCL, Creative Media player, windows media player.

Thanks.

[Baldrick]

could be https://forum.videohelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=309990&highlight=nvidia

[jagabo]

If I remember correctly, the Quicktime Player under windows does not use overlay. Whereas just about every other media player does. This suggests there is something wrong with your overlay settings. Go to your graphics card's configuration applet (Control Panel -> Display -> Settings -> Advanced) and adjust the overlay settings. Try turning it off (Apply or OK from the applet) and then back on. If that doesn't do it look for brightness, contrast, hue and color controls for overlay and adjust them.

[mr_coffee]

hm...i can't seem to find an overlay setting anywhere, but i do see a brightness/color/contrats, when i try to adjust it, it locks up the nvidia control panel and an illegal operation occurs, yay!


also after updating to the latest graphic card drivers on nvdia website, now it won't play any moovie unless its a quicktime moovie, when i try to play an .avi or .mpg all it shows is a black screen and all i hear is audio... i'm not sure what went wrong. I went to he invida website, i then clicked video card drives, geforce, windows xp, and downloaded and installed. restaerted computer and now its like this.

[Baldrick]

the tvout might be the primary so the overlay wont work on your monitor then. check under display properties

http://www.google.se/search?hs=zQI&hl=sv&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aof...S%C3%B6k&meta=

[jagabo]

Go to the Display config applet's Troubleshoot tab and turn down the hardware acceleration.

[mr_coffee]

Thanks guys and Baldrick your first link was the fix
For some reason right when i installed and restarted the comp nothing worked but now after a restart again it works great! quailty is so much better i can actually see the picture without getting a sesure hah. Thanks again!