Video's Playing in Black and White Only

[xenithon]

Hi All. Did a fresh install of XP, with all the latest updates, WMP10 slipstreamed, lateset DivX codec, latest Nvidia drivers for 6600GT. Prior to system reinstall everything played fine. Now the videos are all playing black and white only! Any idea what is going on?

I tried reinstalling the latest DivX codec to no avail. Also tried the ffdshow codec pack with no luck. WMP10 was slipstreamed so I cannot uninstall it and reinstall it, but there are no updates (says latest version is running anyway). Even when I run MPSetup.exe it says currently player is latest installed.

I also tried the official DivX player and it too is problematic. Not entirely B&W this time but mostly B&W with some funny colors here and there. I have checked the VGA video overlay settings and everything is fine there.

Cheers,

X

[LLXX]

Disable video overlay and hardware acceleration. This will make your system *very* slow when rendering video, but if the colors return then there is something wrong with your graphics card drivers.

[J.G. Artist]

i would just say get a new graphics card

[nmX.Memnoch]

It's not his graphics card.

Try the XviD codec. I've had this happen with some DivX files where DivX plays them in black and white, but they play fine with XviD.