I used a store bought DVD, and tried to play it in the VLC Player. The DVD
started fine and played perfectly until about 4:10. At that time, the screen
elongated again changing the aspect. About 90 seconds later, the screen
pixelated into blue, white and green kaleidescope, but the audio continued.
This time instead of rebooting, I removed the digital video source from the
monitor - waited about 30 seconds - and then reattached it to the monitor.
The screen was back and the FLC Player was reduced in size. My other open
windows (Outlook email and windows explorer) were reduced as well. Other
than that, the desktop was perfect.
I went to the links that you provided and read the WMP frequently asked
questions. The codecs are for WMP 7 and greater. I'm currently using
11.0.5721.5230, so I did not download it. The others appear to be for the
DivX player - it's the only one that works.
The issue is not a frozen PC, rather it is a video problem because the audio
continues to work, and I just determined that the screen resumes if you
disconnect and reconnect the video cable.
I'm still willing to try anything to resolve this problem so please continue
making recommendations/suggestions.
"Panzy" wrote:
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DVD's used to work on the PC.
I tried to play a DVD using the VLC player, but after 4 minutes the screen
elongated. About a minute later, 1/4 of the desktop was a blue screen
with
the player occupying the remaining 3/4 of the desktop. However, the
bottom
of the desktop was not visible - could not see the taskbar, Start button,
quick launch, etc. The screen then went blank a few minutes later, but
the
audio continued. I rebooted, turned off the screen saver and unplugged
the
internet connection and tried it again. One minute later, the screen went
blank.
I tried a DvDrip-aXXo (avi) file in my DivX Player - it worked perfectly.
This file caused the screen to go blank in both WMP and PowerDVD.
No other problems with the computer, no changes to virtual memory and no
indications in Device Manager.
OK, so the DVD's are probably not the standard mpeg2/VOB format,
but using the DivX compression technique, no doubt one of the issues
are lack of codecs, but you should get an error message to effect that
WMP/PowerDVD cannot play such file types etc or similar?
Start he
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win...faq/codec.mspx
This is the most uptodate DivX codec pack (at top of page)
It claims compatibility with all media players. Including WMP 6 and above.
http://www.divxmovies.com/software/
Download and install it.
This is the DivX FAQ.
Section 4.2 details a link to a program: DivFix
I've no idea if file corruption maybe the cause of the frozen PC etc.
But you may like to try it to fix any possible corruption.
http://www.divxmovies.com/faq/#4.2