ATI AIW 9800 Pro Video Help

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antonyg2

Hi All,

Hope someone here can identify my video problem and suggest a fix:

I'm using an ATI AIW 9800 PRO and have no problem playing DVD, ATI TV,
or most of the video clips from various sources on my computer with
Window Media Player . But occasionally, there are a few video clips
that have color completely out of whack, especially the CNN.com "WATCH"
video clips which always displayed like this on my monitor:

http://members.cox.net/antonyg2/pics/videoProblem30.jpg
From the image, we can see that there is no problem with static images,
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such as the ad below the frame, but the video is played with colors
reducing to very basic Red Green Blue shading. I had tried to change
color depth from 32-bit to 16-bit, but the problem is still
there...Again, this is only for SOME of the video clip, and ALL of CNN
"WATCH" (stream?) clips.

Has anyone have the same problem? I would appreciate any pointer or
suggestions. Thank you in advanced!

My Hardware List:
Video Card: ATI AIW 9800 Pro, set at 1280x1024 32-bit color, 60Hz
Monitor: Samsung LCD 710N
Computer: Intel Pentium IV, 2GHz on ASUS ??? board.
OS: Windows XP Pro
 
In Windows Media Player:
Tools -> Options -> Performance tab -> Advanced

Uncheck "use video mixing renderer".
 
It's a quirk of the WMV acceleration feature ATi added in [I think] Catalyst
5.7. The only drawback to disabling the VMR renderer is that text-based
subtitles can no longer be displayed. DVD subtitles still work as usual.
 
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