Crappy video quality?

[luper]

Hey,
I use to have windows98 on this machien but recently went XP PRO SP2....

I installed drivers for my motherboard via (VIA actually is name) form their site and then I installed the video drivers for my nvidia video card. I play game such as MOHAA fine and can see clearly even before I installed drivers. The problem is playing video files.

I watch alot of videos on my computer. When I try and play a video, the quality sucks. The sound is good. But when it plays video it looks almost like there are 256 colors or something, just really really crappy.

Please give me some help on this, i really need it and want it! I NEED TO SEE THE VIDEOS BETTER! lol thanks,
-luper

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

Give us more of a clue... what kind of "videos" are you playing... files?
DVDs? Something from an online source?

If files, what are their extensions?
--
Cari (MS-MVP)
Printing & Imaging



"luper" > wrote in message
...
>
> Hey,
> I use to have windows98 on this machien but recently went XP PRO
> SP2....
>
> I installed drivers for my motherboard via (VIA actually is name) form
> their site and then I installed the video drivers for my nvidia video
> card. I play game such as MOHAA fine and can see clearly even before I
> installed drivers. The problem is playing video files.
>
> I watch alot of videos on my computer. When I try and play a video,
> the quality sucks. The sound is good. But when it plays video it looks
> almost like there are 256 colors or something, just really really
> crappy.
>
> Please give me some help on this, i really need it and want it! I NEED
> TO SEE THE VIDEOS BETTER! lol thanks,
> -luper
>
>
> --
> luper

[Graham Hughes]

Also what are the pc specs, if it's an old pc which you have just installed
XP on, it may not have good enough specs to play them.

--
Graham Hughes
MVP Digital Media
www.myvideoproblems.co.uk
www.dvds2treasure.com
www.simplydv.com


"Cari (MS-MVP)" > wrote in message
...
> Give us more of a clue... what kind of "videos" are you playing... files?
> DVDs? Something from an online source?
>
> If files, what are their extensions?
> --
> Cari (MS-MVP)
> Printing & Imaging
>
>
>
> "luper" > wrote in message
> ...
>>
>> Hey,
>> I use to have windows98 on this machien but recently went XP PRO
>> SP2....
>>
>> I installed drivers for my motherboard via (VIA actually is name) form
>> their site and then I installed the video drivers for my nvidia video
>> card. I play game such as MOHAA fine and can see clearly even before I
>> installed drivers. The problem is playing video files.
>>
>> I watch alot of videos on my computer. When I try and play a video,
>> the quality sucks. The sound is good. But when it plays video it looks
>> almost like there are 256 colors or something, just really really
>> crappy.
>>
>> Please give me some help on this, i really need it and want it! I NEED
>> TO SEE THE VIDEOS BETTER! lol thanks,
>> -luper
>>
>>
>> --
>> luper
>
>

[luper]

I have played video from mpegs to ogm to avi every looks same, crappy!
I have a fairly old computer, its 1.5ghz (AMD 1800+ XP cpu[ Processor x86 Family 6 Model 6 Stepping 2 AuthenticAMD ~1533 Mhz], GeForce FX 5200, NVIDIA, floppy don't work but thats irrelevent. I know it has something to do with XP since I viewd the video good on Windows 98 and it looks fine on linux (dual boot just to watch anime, sad? lol)...

I checked the video drivers and heres the list (from the system information). i recently installed some codecs and they aren't working :( which has somethign to do with it i think, i installed for MKV and OGM files. It keeps coming up with error for couldn't download/find approrpiate decompressor!
Heres the list of codecs i got for video:

c:\windows\system32\iccvid.dll Radius Inc. OK C:\WINDOWS\system32\ICCVID.DLL 1.10.0.11 78.50 KB (80,384 bytes) 8/4/2004 12:56 AM
c:\windows\system32\ir32_32.dll Intel(R) Corporation OK C:\WINDOWS\system32\IR32_32.DLL Not Available 194.50 KB (199,168 bytes) 8/6/2004 8:16 PM
c:\windows\system32\ir41_32.ax Intel Corporation OK C:\WINDOWS\system32\IR41_32.AX 4.51.16.03 828.50 KB (848,384 bytes) 8/4/2004 12:56 AM
c:\windows\system32\ir50_32.dll Intel Corporation Indeo® video 5.10 OK C:\WINDOWS\system32\IR50_32.DLL R.5.10.15.2.55 737.50 KB (755,200 bytes) 8/4/2004 12:56 AM
c:\windows\system32\iyuv_32.dll Microsoft Corporation OK C:\WINDOWS\system32\IYUV_32.DLL 5.1.2600.2180 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158) 46.50 KB (47,616 bytes) 8/3/2004 8:56 PM
c:\windows\system32\msh261.drv Microsoft Corporation OK C:\WINDOWS\system32\MSH261.DRV 5.1.2600.2180 184.00 KB (188,416 bytes) 7/12/2005 2:01 PM
c:\windows\system32\msh263.drv Microsoft Corporation OK C:\WINDOWS\system32\MSH263.DRV 5.1.2600.2180 288.00 KB (294,912 bytes) 8/3/2004 8:56 PM
c:\windows\system32\msrle32.dll Microsoft Corporation OK C:\WINDOWS\system32\MSRLE32.DLL 5.1.2600.2180 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158) 11.00 KB (11,264 bytes) 8/4/2004 12:56 AM
c:\windows\system32\msvidc32.dll Microsoft Corporation OK C:\WINDOWS\system32\MSVIDC32.DLL 5.1.2600.0 (xpclient.010817-1148) 25.00 KB (25,600 bytes) 8/6/2004 8:17 PM
c:\windows\system32\msyuv.dll Microsoft Corporation OK C:\WINDOWS\system32\MSYUV.DLL 5.3.2600.2180 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158) 17.00 KB (17,408 bytes) 8/3/2004 8:56 PM
c:\windows\system32\tsbyuv.dll Microsoft Corporation OK C:\WINDOWS\system32\TSBYUV.DLL 5.1.2600.0 (XPClient.010817-1148) 8.00 KB (8,192 bytes) 8/17/2001 6:36 PM


Right now I can't view Avi files(most of them anyways), OGM, or MKV at all, and Mpgs look crappy. :( ... Something about a decompressor, note that video quality hasn't changed before or after I installed any of these codecs!

I think thats enough about my computer, its fairly fast (not as fast a yalls probably lol), and XP runs smoothly, I play mohaa smoothly, msn, aim, TS, photoshop, the works. Thanks for the help btw!
-luper
msn/email:
aim: beefcakeluper








[QUOTE=Graham Hughes]Also what are the pc specs, if it's an old pc which you have just installed
XP on, it may not have good enough specs to play them.

--
Graham Hughes
MVP Digital Media
www.myvideoproblems.co.uk
www.dvds2treasure.com
www.simplydv.com


"Cari (MS-MVP)" wrote in message
...[color=blue][i]
Give us more of a clue... what kind of "videos" are you playing... files?
DVDs? Something from an online source?

If files, what are their extensions?
--
Cari (MS-MVP)
Printing & Imaging



"luper" wrote in message
...[color=green][i]

Hey,
I use to have windows98 on this machien but recently went XP PRO
SP2....

I installed drivers for my motherboard via (VIA actually is name) form
their site and then I installed the video drivers for my nvidia video
card. I play game such as MOHAA fine and can see clearly even before I
installed drivers. The problem is playing video files.

I watch alot of videos on my computer. When I try and play a video,
the quality sucks. The sound is good. But when it plays video it looks
almost like there are 256 colors or something, just really really
crappy.

Please give me some help on this, i really need it and want it! I NEED
TO SEE THE VIDEOS BETTER! lol thanks,
-luper