Crazy Making - Win 2K Problem

JackHughs wrote on 1/23/2003, 4:51 PM

I rendered a short video in default mpeg2. I've showed it to a few friends and it displays perfectly on every machine but one. On this one - the devil machine, the display is expanded by what appears to be a factor of two. So, not only do we get awful resolution, Media Player 9.0 crops the image.

The devil machine is running under Windows 2000. If it were Windows 98, I think I could fix the problem by using the "Video" function under the "Multimedia" tab in Control Panel. The Video function allows me to specify the "Show Video" size. Now - the crazy making part. I cannot find an equivalent function in Windows 2000.

Any suggestions? I don't think the problem lies in our Media Player configuration. We have the same version of Media Player 9.0 on several machines and we have tried very hard to conform the settings on all three. Only the Windows 2000 machine has the problem

JackHughs

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SonyDennis wrote on 1/23/2003, 5:49 PM

Have you tried "View > 100%" or Alt+2 in WMP?
///d@

JackHughs wrote on 1/24/2003, 9:26 AM

Yes. WMP is set to "View at 100%". Changing the view to 50% only resizes the incorrectly expanded and cropped image.

It seems that some process between the storage media and WMP is expanding the source mpeg2 file from 720 x 480 to some unknown (but larger) format. None of the machines being used to view this video have VV installed. Each of the machines has a mixed-lot of codecs. It could be that the devil machine has a devil codec that is incorrectly decompressing the source file. So, I'm going to start turning codec's off, one at a time, and see if that has any effect.

In the meantime, this is still a big mystery and I'm very much open to suggestions.

JackHughs

mikkie wrote on 1/24/2003, 10:14 AM

in wmplayer9 there's an unnoticed couple of lines above where you set the playback size. Make sure both are unchecked.

If this doesn't cure it, see if the file will play properly using the player for quicktime &/or the real one player. If so, could be a problem with the winmedia 9 install. Haven't heard anything specifically, but in the past things like upgrading from a beta version of the player could do strange things - might have to uninstall (painful) & do it over, or else use the other players as the default on that demon possessed entity. [& yes, have seen them]

mike