Resizing MPEG Playback in WMP 7

treyf wrote on 7/15/2001, 5:59 PM
When I play an MPEG (1 or 2) in Windows Media Player 7, it plays fine in the 100% size. When I try to resize to either Full Screen, 50%, or 200%, the file will play but is distorted. At Full Screen, the image is tiled across the bottom, at a height 1/6 of the screen, with thick resolution lines. There are different types of distortion at %50 and %200. If I pause the file while it's playing and then resize, the still image resizes correctly, then distorts when I click play. This phenomenon also happens with MPEGs that I have not created with Video Factory. I first noticed it after installing Video Factory and its MPEG plug-in but before I actually used them.

I'm using Video Factory Version 1.0 (Build 21)
Sonic Foundry MPEG Plug-In Version 1.0
on Windows 98 SE and
Windows Media Player Version 7.00.00.1954

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

Comments

DarthBoz wrote on 7/20/2001, 10:10 PM
I have encountered this same problem with a couple of Sonic Foundry products (Acid Pro 3 and Batch Converter). Uninstalling the programs fixed the problem in both cases. I have not experienced this problem with any other programs. I use Sound Forge 5.0 without any difficulties. This is a very annoying problem and some kind of fix would be welcome. I use Media Player quite alot and the zoom function regularly, so in order for it to work I have to uninstall the Sonic Foundry programs and then reinstall them when I need them. Very time consuming and annoying.
wvg wrote on 7/20/2001, 10:53 PM
The problem is with Media Player. You think your problem is bad? On one PC I got every time I open any MPG file in Media Player in shows the first few frames fine, then everything else is a negative image, (reds shown as greens) plus the movie is flipped left to right and if that wasn't bad enough the entire movie plays upsidedown, except for the first few frames is is the weird part. I'm not kidding, very strange! The same mpg files (dozens of them) play fine on every other player/viewer/editor I've got, and I've got a bunch.

Probably another undocumented Microsoft "feature"...
DarthBoz wrote on 7/21/2001, 1:59 AM
While I do not deny that Microsoft products have many problems, this particular problem only occurs when the Sonic Foundry programs I mentioned in my previous post are installed.