are YOU clever enough to help me?

[milkman]

okey dokey... heres my problem, whenever i play a video it only shows the top right hand corner of the video... making it unwatchable ive installed and uninstalled and reinstalled in different combinations all sorts of codec packs but i still cant get it to work.

i used powerdvd, divxplayer, wmp, realone

my computer is

athalon 1700+
512 ram
geforce 3 ti200

im running windows xp service pack1 with the latest directx

any ideas

thanks in advance

[milkman]

come on 10 views and still nobody, wheres your pride?

[Batman]

Try BSPLAYER or WMP 6.4

You may want to check your overlay settings.

[milkman]

bsplayer didnt work

i tried mplayer2 in windows\system32 and that worked....... but as a media player it sucks

i didnt use to have to do that so what going on?

[Batman]

Since this is a recent occurence I would suspect recent system changes would be the cause of it. What recent hardware/software changes did you make?

[milkman]

i formatted my hard drive

that narrow it down for ya?

i suppose when i reinstalled all my drivers maybe i got a newer version that wasnt compatible. that makes sense

but

i was just fiddling about with bsplayer and now when i load a file it says 'overlay failed' and then works


so what are these overlays all about them... if i can sort that out maybe i can get it working on my mediaplayers of choice

thanks for the help

[Enchanter]

Try using an older (and hopefully more stable) driver version for your Geforce. Reinstalling DirectX might help too.

[milkman]

ok thanks, i fiddled about with just about everything and ticked lots of boxes that sounded like things you said and it worked

thanks, you truly are, the masters of digital video

[Enchanter]

Glad everything's working for ya.