First, I tried to get Nero Showtime to play DVD's, but I guess that's a problem with Win2k OS's. One person in my AD research said they fixed this by changing the video acceleration in the control panel/display. I tried this and it didn't work. So I changed it back to 100%. I can't say that this caused the problem, but the next time I went to watch a DVD with my PowerDVD 6 player everyone had pale blue faces. It looks almost like things are a negative image. The normal red warning at the beginning is greenish blue. But things that are supposed to be white are still white with a bluish hue. Windows media player also has the exact same color differences with mpg files, but not with jpegs. Jpegs are normal. I have on-board graphics and I reinstalled the drivers. This didn't do anything. I also reinstalled PowerDVD 6, and that didn't do anything. If anyone has any ideas, please let me know. I'm out of ideas.
Since you say it also happens in WMP I'm guessing it's a problem with the DirectX filters that Power DVD installs since that should be what WMP is using to play MPEGs. You might want to reinstall DirectX to start with. Sometimes it just develops problems and filters don't work right. Right off the top of my head I can't think of anything else, but I'll keep thinking.
Thanks for the response. I couldn't find anything called Direct X to uninstall, but I did download a new DirectX 9 file and installed it. No luck. As some more info, I only downloaded WMP to see if it would have the same problem. It didn't the first time I tried it. But after I rebooted the first time it did. I just installed an older version of WinDVD, and it required a reboot to take effect. The faces came out blue also.
I'm having the same problem. Last night, I stupidly let Norton Cleansweep "clean up files" I didn't need, and since then, all videos I play are too blue (mostly obvious in peoples skin tones). I tried playing multiple avi's, mpg's, and WMV in both windows media player 9, real player 10, and mplayerc. I found in WMP 9, if I slide the "Hue" setting all the way to the right (+127), I get normal color, so that's a short term fix. Also, in mplayerc, if I go into my settings and change my "Direct Show Video" from "system default" to "VMR9" I can get rid of the blue, but videos played slowly, and the audio got out of sync. Any ideas? I tried removing/reinstalling ffdshow, thinking it might be a codec issue. Didn't help. I've browsed around a ton of forums, and can't find anything!
P.S. It looks like I can still play VCD's and quicktime mov's normally, and some mpegs are playing okay. And, the windows media file I had trouble with was streaming (from mlb.tv).
I finally gave up on this blue face thing. I cleaned the hard drive and installed alll the software again. No more problems.
I found going to my display properties Advanced button, then clicking the troubleshoot tab, then turning hardware acceleration down helped. But other stuff doesn't run right. I'm close to wiping everything again (I tried once, but must have missed something).
