Stuck at 16 bit depth!

I recently installed DVDXPlayer and when I played a video it said something like it didnt like my color depth or something, changed something, it forced my windows 7 to move off the Aero theme and into the basic theme and ever since thing, my videos, pictures, etc look like crap. I have the bit depth at 32 but it still looks like 16! I have nvidia 460, windows 7, 64 bit. I updated my codecs, etc. Problem is, its not just video. Everything used to work! I moved the theme back to Aero. Nothing is working! All fleshtones in videos look like garbage and have those distinct blueish dithering where there are shadows vs. flesh. It's awful. I can't see how to get it all back!
Help!

Have you updated your graphics drivers to their latest version? The 270.61 WQHL drivers were released on April 18th. If you haven't updated, do so. NVIDIA DRIVERS 270.61 WHQL

Johnathan Lyman said:

Have you updated your graphics drivers to their latest version? The 270.61 WQHL drivers were released on April 18th. If you haven't updated, do so. NVIDIA DRIVERS 270.61 WHQL

Click to expand...

Yup.

Everything was working great. Then DVDXPlayer said it had to change the color depth and it hasn't been right since. It then changed my theme to windows 7 basic. It is 32 bit depth and Aero now but everything still has those distinct patterns between color shades and it's driving me crazy! I can't believe they just changed my stuff without me approving it.

Here's what it did! I found it in their crappy products troubleshooting! Look at the very bottom of the page, that is exactly what it said!
It changed my color depth and, it says it will change it back but it didn't and now I have manually but it still looks like garbage!

http://www.clonedvd.net/troubleshooting.html

No one?!

mleejr said:

No one?!

Click to expand...

What exactly would you like to know?

You found the problem. The program you, or somebody else, is using to clone DVD's is not very good. That is not a player, it is a copy program.

Regards....Mike Connor

Mike Connor said:

What exactly would you like to know?

Click to expand...

How to fix it.

I uninstalled the program but it's destruction on my color quality remains.I am at 32 bit color depth but in every video the color is so bad each person looks like a topographical map. The program changed the depth but I can't seem to change it back. I changed it in resolution->advanced...all over the place. I rolled back the nvidia drivers and upgraded them again....nada.

Mike Connor said:

That is not a player, it is a copy program.

Click to expand...

No, that is the companies ONLY troubleshooting guide. I downloaded the player as part of giveawayoftheday.com. I was using it to play videos. It hosed up all my videos I watch now.

It's a player.

DVD Player | Region free DVD Player software | DVD X Player

Anyone have any suggestions? I've tried everything I could find and google...

A troubleshooting guide for a completely different program is useless.

Contact the company and tell them that their software has altered your machine, and ask them for instructions on how to repair it.

Have you tried another player to see if that solves your problem?

Like this one;

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

Regards....Mike Connor

Mike Connor said:

A troubleshooting guide for a completely different program is useless.

Click to expand...

It's the only one for the company. If you click troubleshooting for the player, you get that. And it is the same problem I am having.

Mike Connor said:

Contact the company and tell them that their software has altered your machine, and ask them for instructions on how to repair it.

Click to expand...

I have. I got it for free from giveawayoftheday.com. Good luck getting them to help me.

Mike Connor said:

Have you tried another player to see if that solves your problem?

Click to expand...

Windows Media Player, Windows Media Player classic (Klite codec pack), Divx player.

All the same problem.

Thanks for the help though. It's nuts....

mleejr said:

Mike Connor said:

A troubleshooting guide for a completely different program is useless.

Click to expand...

It's the only one for the company. If you click troubleshooting for the player, you get that. And it is the same problem I am having.

Mike Connor said:

Contact the company and tell them that their software has altered your machine, and ask them for instructions on how to repair it.

Click to expand...

I have. I got it for free from giveawayoftheday.com. Good luck getting them to help me.

Mike Connor said:

Have you tried another player to see if that solves your problem?

Click to expand...

Windows Media Player, Windows Media Player classic (Klite codec pack), Divx player.

All the same problem.

Thanks for the help though. It's nuts....

Click to expand...

Indeed, I don't see exactly how a player can do all that, but obviously it has.

Just a moment , I need to check something............

can you get to this screen;



and click on "Default" ?

Regards....Mike Connor

I'm sorry, how do you get to that. It looks familiar.

A bit of an update. I've been trying everything, resolution, uninstalling, reinstalling video card drivers, etc. My video games and desktop look good, its my videos. I think it just hosed up something with my video. Well, there was more but I think I've fixed it up to just my videos looking bad.

mleejr said:

I'm sorry, how do you get to that. It looks familiar.

Click to expand...

That is the setup screen inside the player. If you reset everything to default, it should put your settings back to what they were.

Regards....Mike Connor

I don't have those options in win 7 media player or win player classic.

Here's an example of what I'm seeing. I circled what I am focused on. The color transitions are not smooth. They look horrible. I watched these videos on another windows 7 machine and they all look great. Even my netflix and onlive are affected!

http://img600.imageshack.us/img600/5695/imageproblem.png

Ok. I think I may have fixed it. WOW this was not easy! What a cluge!
Ok, dvdxplayer apparently not only changed all my settings, it changed all my codecs. I installed multiple codec packs, uninstalled, changed video card drivers, all KINDS of stuff, nothing worked. Then I found this little gem...
I uninstalled the KLite codec pack (had it before, it is NOT the problem). Then I installed the XP Codec pack 2.5.1. It still didn't work. Well, hidden inside this little gem of a package is a program called 'Codec Detective'. I thought 'hmm, I wonder if this will at least give me info on what codecs are installed and running and how they are configured'. It does, beautifully. I found that the codecs were being held onto, still, by company called APlus. I actually just got this TODAY from giveawayoftheday.com. I like file converter utilities for watching my shows on my xbox, mp3 player, etc. Anyway, When I found that this program was hogging nearly 90% of my codecs, INCLUDING one called NV.... which is an NVIDIA driver, I was shocked! I uninstalled the program, which froze on uninstall, then I rebooted, then uninstalled again and it worked! The picture isn't perfect, but it is much better. I am still having some of the shading problems but I think I am in the right ballpark. I think I can deal with the way it is now. The key is to get 'Codec Detective' and see what crappy, 1997 program has hijacked your codecs and remove it! By hand if necessary.

mleejr said:

I don't have those options in win 7 media player or win player classic.

Here's an example of what I'm seeing. I circled what I am focused on. The color transitions are not smooth. They look horrible. I watched these videos on another windows 7 machine and they all look great. Even my netflix and onlive are affected!

http://img600.imageshack.us/img600/5695/imageproblem.png

Click to expand...

I've seen that video, and I've seen the same color artifacts. Artifacting like that is common on low depth videos. Given that it's probably a web video of some sort, I wouldn't expect it to look any better, really.

No, its not just poor quality, I can visibly see changes....very evident changes actually between codecs.