video issues...

Tizmo said:

Right, I have this annoying issue with videos in Windows 7. I have a picture here to show what I am talking about:



As you can see, there are some very annoying lines. I get this problem with WMP12 and MPC. The only program that does NOT produce that is VLC. I had this problem with the RC as well. It does not make a difference if I have ffdshow installed or not, I get this problem. I never had this problem with XP...

Just for comparison, here is what I get with VLC, as you can see, those annoying lines are not there.



Any ideas? I would love to use MPC the whole time...

I don't use MPC but I would look to see if you can turn down the brightness of the image within the program and up the contrast ever so slightly, maybe put the two side-by-side until they look identical.

Tizmo said:

I can't see an option for that in MPC, but like I said, this does not just happen on MPC, it happens with WMP as well. My guess is that there is some incompatibility with the media driver foundation and my video card/drivers.

In XP, which uses DirectShow, I never had this problem. VLC uses its own codecs, which would explain why there are none of these problems with VLC. With the RC, after a fresh install, I had this problem right away.

You may want to introduce FFDShow-Tryout [http://ffdshow-tryout.sourceforge.net/ to your system and give it a whirl. That way WMP has different codecs to play with.

I would install Sharks ( a member of these forums )Windows7 Codec pack ... Ive had similar issues and Sharks codecs cleared it up... Windows 7 codec pack

Tizmo said:

Hmm, strange. I fixed it, for MPC at least. I did not realise I had to install an x64 build of ffdshow-tryouts as well. I only installed the build that was on the main page. In the downloads section, there was an x64 build as well. After installing that, I had no more problems with MPC!

Though WMP still gives me that problem. Even though it does not bother me at all because I never use WMP for movies, it still would be nice to know how to fix it for WMP.

I don't know if you visited WMPs video brightness settings or not [right-click on video, choose Enhancements then Video Settings] and do some tweaking.

I don't think you'll have much luck with WMP in terms of changing out it's codecs for well-known video types.