MPEG 1(VCD) = black screen

Hi,

I wonder why I can't play MPEG 1 files in neither Zoom Player Pro
or Media Player in WinXP x64 Edition.

According to AVIcodec, the video format is supported because I get
this: <http://home18.inet.tele.dk/madsen/winxp64/codecs.gif>.

I've installed DivX 6.0, ffdshow and XviD, but nothing seems to work.
It works fine on my WinXP x86 installation though.

Any ideas?

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Regards
Madsen

Thomas
Sat Oct 01 17:25:46 CDT 2005

Thomas G. Madsen wrote:

> I wonder why I can't play MPEG 1 files in neither Zoom Player Pro
> or Media Player in WinXP x64 Edition.

I meant neither Zoom Player Pro _nor_ Media Player. Sorry.

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Regards
Madsen

Thomas
Sat Oct 01 17:33:40 CDT 2005

Thomas G. Madsen wrote:

> I wonder why I can't play MPEG 1 files in neither Zoom Player Pro
> or Media Player in WinXP x64 Edition.

Well, actually it's stranger than that because I can play them the
first time I open them, but if I open up another movie or close
the player down and open the same movie again, there's only a black
screen, and it's the same thing with DivX encoded AVIs.

According to AVIcodec, all the needed codecs are installed.

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Regards
Madsen

Mirko
Sun Oct 02 05:07:34 CDT 2005

Maybe your graphics card has problems displaying video in "overlay" mode.
You could try to disable the use of "overlays" and see what happens then.

Btw, what model is your graphics card and which driver version are you
using?


"Thomas G. Madsen" <nospam@madsen.tdcadsl.dk> :dhn9t5.1mk.1@tgm.dyndns.dk...
> Thomas G. Madsen wrote:
>
>> I wonder why I can't play MPEG 1 files in neither Zoom Player Pro
>> or Media Player in WinXP x64 Edition.
>
> Well, actually it's stranger than that because I can play them the
> first time I open them, but if I open up another movie or close
> the player down and open the same movie again, there's only a black
> screen, and it's the same thing with DivX encoded AVIs.
>
> According to AVIcodec, all the needed codecs are installed.
>
> --
> Regards
> Madsen

Thomas
Sun Oct 02 05:55:38 CDT 2005

Mirko wrote:

> Maybe your graphics card has problems displaying video in
> "overlay" mode. You could try to disable the use of "overlays"
> and see what happens then.

I don't know how to disable overlay mode. There's an overlay
setting in my graphic card driver, but everything in there is
grayed out (same thing on my WinXP x86 installation, by the way).

> Btw, what model is your graphics card and which driver version
> are you using?

Sorry that I forgot to mention that.

It's an Asus Radeon X800 Pro and I have just installed the newest
ATI driver for x64:
<https://support.ati.com/ics/support/KBList.asp?folderID=368> but
it's the same thing. I have only XviD-1.0.3-20122004.exe from this
page: <http://www.koepi.org/xvid.shtml> installed right now and if
I open a XVID Mpeg-4 encoded AVI in either Zoom Player Pro 4.5 or
Windows Media Player 10, I have both video and sound but only until
I press on stop and play again, closing the media player down or
picks another video clip, because if I do that, there's no video.
Only sound and I have to restart Windows to get the video back.

Turning hardware acceleration all the way down, doesn't work either.

--
Regards
Madsen

Mirko
Sun Oct 02 07:57:59 CDT 2005

Radeon X800 (Pro) + latest Catalyst driver is pretty much a standard
configuration which "should" work. (including the overlay mode)

But anyway, to disable the use of "overlays" in Windows Media Player 10 go
to Tools -> Options then click the "Performance" tab and then click the
"Advanced..." button.



"Thomas G. Madsen" <nospam@madsen.tdcadsl.dk> :dholcb.2p8.1@tgm.dyndns.dk...
> Mirko wrote:
>
>> Maybe your graphics card has problems displaying video in
>> "overlay" mode. You could try to disable the use of "overlays"
>> and see what happens then.
>
> I don't know how to disable overlay mode. There's an overlay
> setting in my graphic card driver, but everything in there is
> grayed out (same thing on my WinXP x86 installation, by the way).
>
>> Btw, what model is your graphics card and which driver version
>> are you using?
>
> Sorry that I forgot to mention that.
>
> It's an Asus Radeon X800 Pro and I have just installed the newest
> ATI driver for x64:
> <https://support.ati.com/ics/support/KBList.asp?folderID=368> but
> it's the same thing. I have only XviD-1.0.3-20122004.exe from this
> page: <http://www.koepi.org/xvid.shtml> installed right now and if
> I open a XVID Mpeg-4 encoded AVI in either Zoom Player Pro 4.5 or
> Windows Media Player 10, I have both video and sound but only until
> I press on stop and play again, closing the media player down or
> picks another video clip, because if I do that, there's no video.
> Only sound and I have to restart Windows to get the video back.
>
> Turning hardware acceleration all the way down, doesn't work either.
>
> --
> Regards
> Madsen

Thomas
Sun Oct 02 09:53:08 CDT 2005

Mirko wrote:

> Radeon X800 (Pro) + latest Catalyst driver is pretty much a
> standard configuration which "should" work. (including the
> overlay mode)

But unfortunately it doesn't. Should I contact ATI or is it a
WinXP x64 problem?

> But anyway, to disable the use of "overlays" in Windows Media
> Player 10 go to Tools -> Options then click the "Performance"
> tab and then click the "Advanced..." button.

And it works if I disable overlay in Windows Media Player.
I will search for a similar option in Zoom Player Pro 4.5.

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Regards
Madsen

Carlos
Sun Oct 02 10:11:01 CDT 2005

The WMP overlay tweak is identical to a buggy nVidia driver one.
Funny it also applies to ATI.
Another workaround with nVidia buggy driver was to apply color correction to
"everything" instead of "desktop" in nVidia Control Panel.
I don't know if there is a similar option with ATI Control Panel.
That should work it out for al the players installed in your machine.
Carlos

"Thomas G. Madsen" wrote:

> Mirko wrote:
>
> > Radeon X800 (Pro) + latest Catalyst driver is pretty much a
> > standard configuration which "should" work. (including the
> > overlay mode)
>
> But unfortunately it doesn't. Should I contact ATI or is it a
> WinXP x64 problem?
>
> > But anyway, to disable the use of "overlays" in Windows Media
> > Player 10 go to Tools -> Options then click the "Performance"
> > tab and then click the "Advanced..." button.
>
> And it works if I disable overlay in Windows Media Player.
> I will search for a similar option in Zoom Player Pro 4.5.
>
> --
> Regards
> Madsen
>

Thomas
Sun Oct 02 11:11:35 CDT 2005

Carlos wrote:

> Another workaround with nVidia buggy driver was to apply color
> correction to "everything" instead of "desktop" in nVidia
> Control Panel. I don't know if there is a similar option with
> ATI Control Panel.

I only have an option to set color correction for 'Desktop' or 'Full
Screen 3D' but applying a correction for the desktop doesn't fix the
problem in Zoom Player, and I guess that a correction to 3D wouldn't
fix it either.

I haven't found out how to disable overlay in Zoom Player Pro yet.

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Regards
Madsen