Funny colors playing .wmv files

[voice_of_reason]

Greetings:

I just recently have begun having a problem in that .wmv files that
I've downloaded play back in funny solarized green/blue/pink colors.
Files that I have previously downloaded still play fine. But every file
that I've downloaded over the past 24 hrs has had this problem.

I thought maybe they were a different incompatible verison of wmv files
for the XP player. Is that possible? But it seems odd that EVERY file
I have attempted to download and play in the past 24 hrs has had ths
problem. My player is Version 9.

I also thought maybe something got scrogged with my player. But, as I
mentioned, files I've previously downloaded still play fine.

Any thoughts or suggestions???

 

[Zarax]

Try updating your video card drivers or lowering the video hardware
acceleration.

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Greetings:

I just recently have begun having a problem in that .wmv files that
I've downloaded play back in funny solarized green/blue/pink colors.
Files that I have previously downloaded still play fine. But every file
that I've downloaded over the past 24 hrs has had this problem.

I thought maybe they were a different incompatible verison of wmv files
for the XP player. Is that possible? But it seems odd that EVERY file
I have attempted to download and play in the past 24 hrs has had ths
problem. My player is Version 9.

I also thought maybe something got scrogged with my player. But, as I
mentioned, files I've previously downloaded still play fine.

Any thoughts or suggestions???

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[voice_of_reason]

Thank you for your reply.

I will look for updates. But if the problem had to do with my video
driver (or the hardware acceleration), why do the wmv files that I'd
downloaded previously still play without a problem? Only the ones I
have been tryong to download since yesterday come out with the funny
green/orange/pink color scheme.

 

[voice_of_reason]

Thank you for your reply.

I will look for updates. But if the problem had to do with my video
driver (or the hardware acceleration), why do the wmv files that I'd
downloaded previously still play without a problem? Only the ones I
have been tryong to download since yesterday come out with the funny
green/orange/pink color scheme.

 

[voice_of_reason]

Thank you for your reply.

I will look for updates. But if the problem had to do with my video
driver (or the hardware acceleration), why do the wmv files that I'd
downloaded previously still play without a problem? Only the ones I
have been tryong to download since yesterday come out with the funny
green/orange/pink color scheme.

 

[voice_of_reason]

Greetings:

I have installed RealAudio and set it to play .wmv files.....and still
get the same result (video with solarized blue/orange/green coloring)

I search the net for the appropriate video driver for my Dell Latitude
d610 and found three. Didn't know which one was correct so I installed
all three. With one of them, I got an warning message informing me that
newer versions of the files were already on my hard-drive.

Bottomline: new drivers had no effect. the probem STILL persists.

Any other suggestions?

What is most perplexing is that the problem is only on files downloaded
after a certain date.

Could it possibily be a virus???

 

[archersteven]

I have the same problem. It seems to be related to file size (or maybe
it's a coincidence). I have a bunch of files downloaded on my work
computer that ran fine (win2k), brought them home on a jump drive and
now they don't work. I have a 3053kb file that works fine. Everything
bigger doesn't. try the files on another computer.