Pink bar along right side during playback

[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...