Re: wmp-9

[Viron Papadopoulos]

"John" > wrote in message >...
> since i downloaded windows media player - 9 some of my
> videos flicker and look like an oldtime movie. whats
> wrong?

the answer is here
http://groups.google.com.gr/groups?q=WMP+9+flicker&hl=el&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=01ed01c2a038%24ef7c51f0%2489f82ecf%40TK2MSFTN GXA01&rnum=3

[elyofg]

Trust me, this solution only works in a minority of cases. Check your
video driver version. The only way I was able to fix this problem was
to get an earlier version of my video driver. That's right, I said an
*EARLIER* version! The problem was, I own a Dell computer with an
NVIDIA video card. Computers can be very funny when it comes to
driver compatibility issues. It turns out that the video driver I was
using was the latest NVIDIA version that I got from a Microsoft
update. Unfortunately, Dell provides its own proprietary version of
this driver, which is slightly modified from the "official" NVIDIA
version. The NVIDIA version worked fine with WMP8, but the minute I
installed WMP9 I started having all kinds of video flicker problems!
When I went back to the Dell version of the driver, even though it was
an "older" version, the problems magically disappeared!

If playing with the Video acceleration and/or Hardware acceleration
values doesn't fix your problem, you might check to see if it could be
a video driver issue.

Unfortunately, the video flicker problem was just the tip of the
iceberg for me. I rue the day I ever installed WMP9.

On Sat, 1 Mar 2003 14:00:12 -0600, "Jim Meyer" >
wrote:

>This happened to me and I was able to fix it in Media Player by going to
>Tools/Options/Performance and using the slider to reduce the Video
>acceleration value.
>
>"John" > wrote in message
...
>> since i downloaded windows media player - 9 some of my
>> videos flicker and look like an oldtime movie. whats
>> wrong?
>