I'm having problems with my video and mpeg players on the PC and wondered if anyone here had any ideas?

Basically anything i watch on any player (Windows media, Realplayer, Apple players etc) looks like the brightness is turned right up making it a real pain to see anything!!!!

Any ideas whats up, my PC screen is fine and changing the brightness on the moniter does nothing to help!!!

 

Have you changed any of your CODECS recently? What type of video file is it? Found that when my DiVx CODEC changed I got this problem.

 

I have no idea!!!!

It's all video files of all types, nothing works correctly!!!

 

Okay. It sounds like either your CODECS or the Video Card Driver. Have you changed anything recently? Downloaded/installed any new programs etc....

 

Not changed anything i can think of, always downloading new stuff onto PC. Just had new card put in about 6 months ago, could be the drivers? I'll head over to their support and look for new updates!!

What the hell are CODECS and can i get medicine to sort them!!!

 

CODECS are the things that translate your video files so that they can play on your PC. Try a search under the 'Computer' forum. I think the Kazaa CODEC pack ones are what people use.

 

I had the same problem and had to down load windows player 10 then it was fine.
Cheers
Colin

 

Go in Control Panel and see if you have something called AC3...............if so you have a codec installed and you can fix video playback settings from there.

 

Also check to see if your video driver has controls for the "overlay". This is the bit of the screen used by video playback, DVDs, TV tuners tec. This usually has independent brightness, contrast etc. controls than your normal Windows desktop.

Cheers

Ian

 

Woohoo!!!

Sorted it!!

Updated all my drivers last night and that seems to have done the trick!!

Thanks for all the help and advice folks!!

Chris.

 

No worries