RE: White picture

I fixed my own problem by reading other posts, this problem seems to be quite
common, well i should go to the VLC forums and fix that too.

"Miilaad" skrev:

> Hi.
> I got a media player problem recently. And the problem is that whenever i
> play a video file in any of my media players (VLC media player, Winamp and
> Windows media player 10series)
>
> The problem that I have is that when I play a videofile or stream one from
> internet the video is kind of white or "foggy" "pale" and the quality of the
> colours is really bad, the colours are kind of inverted and strange.
>
> Now before I posted this here I asked the people in the Winamp technical
> forums and I got this response:
> "Winamp does not alter media system files so I don't think Winamp is to
> blame. However, try the following in Winamp
>
> Winamp > Ctrl-P > General Preferences > Video > check or uncheck 'Allow
> hardware video overlay' (or check/uncheck Allow YV12 overlay mode) > close &
> restart Winamp"
>
> This fixed the problem on winamp so I wonder if there is any settings in WMP
> that is the same or if you pro's know the equivalence of this in WMP.
>
> Anyway I asked the guy in Winamp if he knew how to fix the other media
> players and he said:
> "Otherwise, your video card/driver may have it's own video overly
> control(s)/setting(s) and will vary with the video card
> Right click on the desktop wallpaper > Properties > Settings tab > Advanced
> button > there may be a tab (or tabs) for your vid card
> -or-
> Control Panel > Display icon > Settings tab > Advanced button > there may be
> a tab (or tabs) for your vid card"
>
> I tried this out and this didn't fix the problem in VLC or WMP so please can
> anyone here help me. Just having Winamp as a media player isn't good enough.
>
>
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