Re: Come on Microsoft and fix DVD playback in WMP 11

Hi and thank you for your message.
The laptop is brand new 1.8GHz 1Gig ram. The new PC is 2.2GHz with 1.5 Gig
Ram. The old PC is 1.5 GHz 512Gig Ram. Non of these do I consider
underpowered.
Things to remember. The two PC's work 100% on XP with WMP10 giving full
screen DVD palyback. Installed Sonic CinePlayer Vista CODEC package (by the
way this install does not appear in the windows program list. The only way
that I can un install it is to use Hijackthis uninstall facilty to find the
uninstaller). I now have a greyed out advanced tag under TOOLS- OPTIONS-DVD
whereas before Cineplayer install it was ok.
All three systems play WMV 100% and AVI (sorry about the firt post but I
only had 1 AVI file. Downloaded some samples and they all played 100%). I
downloaded some MPEG-2 samples and they also were 100% in full screen BUT put
in a DVD and cannot play full screen. THe only comman factors are Vista and
WMP11 ??

Peter


"zachd [MSFT]" wrote:


Well if it's a problem with AVI files too, it's certainly not a problem with
just DVD playback....

Are you really having full screen playback problems across three discrete
systems? Are these underpowered or something? I'm wondering what's
uniquely wonky about your set of systems. Mentioning VLC - and testing with
AVI - implies that other random stuff might be on the PC. What about
straight up WMV files full-screen?

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See http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info.
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"pafos" <pafos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi---My main card is a Ge force 6200 agp x8 with the very latest Vista
drivers loaded. Other laptop has Mobile Intel 945GM Display adaptor and
other pc has Matrox g550 dual head again all with latest drivers. I tried
to
play some AVI files that I had and even these are jerky when at full
screen
size



"zachd [MSFT]" wrote:


I'm on Vista and don't have any problems with playback. What video card
are
you using? Are the drivers up to date from the vendor?

--
Speaking for myself only.
See http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info.
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
rights.
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"pafos" <pafos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have 3 computers all with dual boot XP Pro and Vista home basic. The
Vista
OS does not come with a decoder so I went out and BOUGHT Roxio
CinePlayer
decoder for Vista. It is impossible to play any DVD under wmp11/vista
in
full
screen mode without the video output skipping frames and being "jerkY".
Under
XP WMP 10 there is no problem. I thought that it migh tbe just me BUT
looking
at the net there are huge amounts of folk out there with this problem.
I
downloaded VLC player and this works just fine on all three computers
so I
now have to use a free product to get my expensive Vista applications
to
work
correctly so I will continue to use my faithfull and fast XP Pro for a
while
yet.
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thanks in advance for any help
Peter


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