Vista video problems

[Marcus Wulf]

Hi,

I currently installed Vista as a dual boot system next my XP. All works fine
by now except that I can't play any videos with media player or media
center.

The problem is that I can hear sound but the video is just green. I also
tried to set up Media Center, and there is a demo video that also just
displays green.

May this be a problem of my video card? I use a ATI 1900 XT and downloaded
the latest drivers from the ATI site, but this didn't help.

Any ideas what could cause this problem?

Thanks in advance,

Marcus

 

[Zack Whittaker]

Hmm... it could be bad drivers... it's awfully strange that the video is
just green. Putting XP on a different partition shouldn't affect it at
all...

If possible... set up another partition with Vista on and see if Media
Center does the same - or try a reinstall perhaps.

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[Guest]

It sounds like a codec problem. What kind of video files are you trying to
play? I found that by downloading the xvid codec or a codec pack like the
ones from klite fixes most problems like that.