Video file viewing problems

[Rob]

I have some videos copied from TV that I captured with an ATI All In Wonder
Radeon video card. These were saved as MP2 video files. Never had any
problem with these files until today. Now when I play these files with
Windows Media Player or the ATI File Player, the aspect ratio is wrong -
picture is squeezed together - and the audio has a popping noise in it,
plus the audio and video are out of sync.

A few weeks back, I did copy these files to a data DVD to preserve them.
When I play any of these from the data DVD, I get the same results. BUT,
when I put the data DVD in another computer, the video plays fine. So I
tried copying some of the video files to a CD from my hard drive - same
thing, they play fine on another computer but are all messed up on mine. I
have no idea how to solve this problem but I can't help but think it is
something with the ATI captures codecs on my computer, if that is the
correct term to use.

As I said, this computer has an ATI All In Wonder Radeon video card.
Processor is a Pentium 4, 1.6, 384 ram, Windows XP Home with SP2.

[Graham Hughes]

Have you recently made any changes to your pc?
Updates to windows?
Updates to the ati drivers?
Installed any software?
Installed any codec packs?

If so, try removing them, or use system restore to go back to a pre-install
state.

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


"Rob" > wrote in message
...
>I have some videos copied from TV that I captured with an ATI All In Wonder
>Radeon video card. These were saved as MP2 video files. Never had any
>problem with these files until today. Now when I play these files with
>Windows Media Player or the ATI File Player, the aspect ratio is wrong -
>picture is squeezed together - and the audio has a popping noise in it,
>plus the audio and video are out of sync.
>
> A few weeks back, I did copy these files to a data DVD to preserve them.
> When I play any of these from the data DVD, I get the same results. BUT,
> when I put the data DVD in another computer, the video plays fine. So I
> tried copying some of the video files to a CD from my hard drive - same
> thing, they play fine on another computer but are all messed up on mine.
> I have no idea how to solve this problem but I can't help but think it is
> something with the ATI captures codecs on my computer, if that is the
> correct term to use.
>
> As I said, this computer has an ATI All In Wonder Radeon video card.
> Processor is a Pentium 4, 1.6, 384 ram, Windows XP Home with SP2.
>
>
>

[Rob]

The system did a Windows update yesterday morning and also installed some
ATI drivers. I thought that may have been the problem so I used system
restore to go back to 10/1 but it didn't make any difference. Maybe I
should uninstall the ATI drivers and re-install the old ones ????

"Graham Hughes" > wrote in message
...
> Have you recently made any changes to your pc?
> Updates to windows?
> Updates to the ati drivers?
> Installed any software?
> Installed any codec packs?
>
> If so, try removing them, or use system restore to go back to a
> pre-install state.
>
> --
> Graham Hughes
> MVP Digital Media
> www.myvideoproblems.co.uk
> www.dvds2treasure.com
> www.simplydv.com
>
>
> "Rob" > wrote in message
> ...
>>I have some videos copied from TV that I captured with an ATI All In
>>Wonder Radeon video card. These were saved as MP2 video files. Never had
>>any problem with these files until today. Now when I play these files
>>with Windows Media Player or the ATI File Player, the aspect ratio is
>>wrong - picture is squeezed together - and the audio has a popping noise
>>in it, plus the audio and video are out of sync.
>>
>> A few weeks back, I did copy these files to a data DVD to preserve them.
>> When I play any of these from the data DVD, I get the same results. BUT,
>> when I put the data DVD in another computer, the video plays fine. So I
>> tried copying some of the video files to a CD from my hard drive - same
>> thing, they play fine on another computer but are all messed up on mine.
>> I have no idea how to solve this problem but I can't help but think it is
>> something with the ATI captures codecs on my computer, if that is the
>> correct term to use.
>>
>> As I said, this computer has an ATI All In Wonder Radeon video card.
>> Processor is a Pentium 4, 1.6, 384 ram, Windows XP Home with SP2.
>>
>>
>>
>
>

[Graham Hughes]

Did it get the ati drivers from windows update? If so then go to ati's site
and find the most up to date drivers for your card and install those.

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


"Rob" > wrote in message
...
> The system did a Windows update yesterday morning and also installed some
> ATI drivers. I thought that may have been the problem so I used system
> restore to go back to 10/1 but it didn't make any difference. Maybe I
> should uninstall the ATI drivers and re-install the old ones ????
>
> "Graham Hughes" > wrote in message
> ...
>> Have you recently made any changes to your pc?
>> Updates to windows?
>> Updates to the ati drivers?
>> Installed any software?
>> Installed any codec packs?
>>
>> If so, try removing them, or use system restore to go back to a
>> pre-install state.
>>
>> --
>> Graham Hughes
>> MVP Digital Media
>> www.myvideoproblems.co.uk
>> www.dvds2treasure.com
>> www.simplydv.com
>>
>>
>> "Rob" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>>I have some videos copied from TV that I captured with an ATI All In
>>>Wonder Radeon video card. These were saved as MP2 video files. Never
>>>had any problem with these files until today. Now when I play these
>>>files with Windows Media Player or the ATI File Player, the aspect ratio
>>>is wrong - picture is squeezed together - and the audio has a popping
>>>noise in it, plus the audio and video are out of sync.
>>>
>>> A few weeks back, I did copy these files to a data DVD to preserve them.
>>> When I play any of these from the data DVD, I get the same results.
>>> BUT, when I put the data DVD in another computer, the video plays fine.
>>> So I tried copying some of the video files to a CD from my hard drive -
>>> same thing, they play fine on another computer but are all messed up on
>>> mine. I have no idea how to solve this problem but I can't help but
>>> think it is something with the ATI captures codecs on my computer, if
>>> that is the correct term to use.
>>>
>>> As I said, this computer has an ATI All In Wonder Radeon video card.
>>> Processor is a Pentium 4, 1.6, 384 ram, Windows XP Home with SP2.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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