Pink bar along right side during playback

[Eldorado]

Hi, I'm having a slight problem with a divx / xvid movie..

If i open it in the Divx player, it looks fine.. but when I try to stretch that movie out to make it bigger (wider than 720 pixels) it puts a distorted pink bar covering about a fifth on the image on the right side... If i make it smaller than 720px it goes away... and if I stretch it out again, it comes back..

I downloaded and ran GSpot and it says it's using the XviD MPEG-4 Video Decoder, which I have downloaded to try to fix the problem to no avail.. I get this problem in WMP as well as the DviX player and an XviD player I downloaded...

I have an updated divx player / codec, as well as an updated xvid codec installed.. I have tried running just the divx codec with XviD unstalled, as well as just the XviD codec with the divx codec uninstalled... and I get the same problem.

Also up to date with direct x and my video card drivers..

It's an HD recording, if that matters at all..

I know the information is there behind that pink bar of garbage that appears... because it plays fine before I stretch it out (or make it full screen), but the second i make it bigger, always at one specific point this bar appears and wont go away until I shrink the size of the video beyond that certain point again...

one more thing... if I have the pink bar on the right, and I drag the divx player off the screen to the left, the bar starts to disappear... Like, If I drag 1 inch of the player off the screen to the left, then 1 inch of the pink bar disappears showing the movie behind it....

I'd appreciate any help on this matter... Thanks guys.

[anonymez]

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download 'virtualdubmod', open your file with it. under 'file', click 'file information'. post everything in the little window that comes up.

[Eldorado]

thanks for the fast reply..

here you go!
I can also post a shot of the Gspot output that it gave me too if you like..

[Eldorado]

here it is regardless of if you need it or not..

the part in the red box changes from Divx, to XviD, to whatever codec i happen to be trying...
I did a forum search and found someone with similar symptoms, and it was reccomended that they download fddshow - this didn't help me.. if anything, it made the playback glitcher when you first hit play...

[Eldorado]

I apologize for the flood of posts.. but i keep thinking and trying something new..

I tried playing it in virtual dub - works like a charm....
help me obi wan kenobi - you're my only hope! lol :please:

[anonymez]

what version of ffdshow do you have? uninstall the old one, get the 'october 13 2005' version from http://www.aziendeassociate.it/cd.asp?dir=/ffdshow

then try playing your video in 'media player classic' :)

[Eldorado]

that is the version I tried.
if i stopped playback say, 5 mins in (doesn't matter the time), and hit 'play' again..... a few frames from that 5 min pont (or wherever it happened to be when i stopped it) would flash on the screen..

downloaded MPC 6.4.8.7 - pink bar still there....
and playback is worse.. so bloody glitchy... like it's running in slow motion, waaaayyyy behind the audio (which plays perfectly).

[anonymez]

its very likely part of the file is corrupt. open the file in virtuadlubmod, under 'video', select 'direct stream copy'. again under 'video', select scan video stream for errors-->scan. under 'file', click 'save file as avi', and save with a new file name. try playing the new file.

[Eldorado]

i dont think it's corrupt... I downloaded a King Kong trailer from the quicktime site earlier this afternoon - it's in HD and it, too, had the pink bar (until I installed the XviD codec... then it worked fine.)

and VirtualDub plays it perfectly... so obviously the info is there somewhere...

I'll try your method... will I lose any quality from the high resolution HD source?

[anonymez]

Hi, I'm having a slight problem with a divx / xvid movie

made me think it was the only file that had this problem. in that case, its now unlikely the file is corrupt, but rather an issue with your PC.

what are your pcs's specs?

[Eldorado]

athlon 2500+
1 gig ddr400 ram
100 gigs harddrive spread between two drives - 60 and 40
and a crappy ati rage fury pro 32M 4x agp graphics card (i refrained from telling you this sooner because i didn't want all the blame to be put square on the video card..)

that's all the info that really pertains to playing movies..

I dont think it's my videocard either because i can play dvds without a blip... and they're more detailed than what I'm trying to play...

[Eldorado]

why would it work perfectly in VirtualDub, and not in any of the other players I've tried? any advice?

[Eldorado]

yet another update..
when i take a screenshot with media player classic, and stretched to full screen, the pink bar isn't there and the video behind it shows through (on the screenshot, not the video itself)

[Eldorado]

Breakthrough!
I opened it up in WMP and the pink bar was there..
I went to Tools>Options>Performance, and changed the "full video acceleration" to "some video acceleration" and the pink bar is GONE in WMP 10...

I figured out what setting it was by going through the "Advanced" Tab.... I switched it from "Use Overlays" to "Use High Quality Mode".... and it works like a charm in WMP now.. but still not in Divx Player or any other player...

What could be wrong with my "overlays" or whatever that is causing this problem?

[anonymez]

methinks it is indeed a hardware problem, likely your graphics card...

glad a solution was found :)

[Eldorado]

do you know what overlays are and why it would cause this problem?

[anonymez]

one of my posts about the various rendering methods, including overlay, found by searching the forum:

a quick, crappy explanation:

there are several 'video modes' windows/directx uses to render video. they are overlay, vmr7 and vmr9

overlay is the fastest & most compatible, but it has the limitation of not being able to take screenshots without the specific media player supporting it. its also gives the lowest quality picture. another limitation is that it can only play 1 video at any time.

vmr7 is windows xp's default, its slow & better quality than overlay. it supports screencaps.

vmr9 is the best, but the slowest. it can render many videos at the same time. it gives best quality and also supports screencaps.

vmr7 and 9 have many advantages over overlay (most not listed here), meaning overlay, which most people use, sucks in comparison

see my thread here about the advantages/disadvantages of using vmr9 for playback http://forum.digital-digest.com/showthread.php?t=57099

seems your graphics card is having trouble rendering video in overlay mode. technically, the vmr7/9 method i mentioned above should have worked...

i recommend buying another graphics card. even a cheap low-end geforce 6200 (or 5200 if you really don't want to spend much) will do...

[Eldorado]

is there a way to "force" the divx player or MPC to play without using this 'overlay' feature? I'd much rather play these in the Divx player than in WMP 10...

[anonymez]

open up media player classic, press 'o' in your keyboard, click 'output', then pick vmr9 (you could also try vmr7)...

[Eldorado]

worked like a charm..
what about the divx player? is there a setting in the divx player? or even in directx controls?

or to make things easier, is there a global setting for this?

[anonymez]

no global setting that i am aware of. why would you want to use divx player? its one of the worst players in existence, right down there with wmp. see http://forum.digital-digest.com/showthread.php?t=55025

the best solution is to get a new graphics card, even a cheap geforce will do...