windows media playing green screen with videos

**bball_1523** · February 15th, 2004, 10:16 PM

I have windows media 6.4 player because 7.0 doesn't work right and is buggy for my old cheap windows 98 computer. I installed the K-Lite Codec pack to play the Avi and other movies but when I play them, I get a green screen but I do hear audio, just no video, only a dark green colored screen.

What's the problem and how can I fix this? Thanks

**Mels_Smileys45** · February 15th, 2004, 10:24 PM

You need to un-install then re-install the codecs again. sometimes they get screwed up

**crackerjacker** · February 16th, 2004, 01:09 AM

If you dont want to see the green stuff on your media player I suggest you download the codec from divx.
http://download.divx.com/divx/DivXPro511GAINBundle.exe

This happen to me before. I would see green on my media player.
up to you though if you want to download it. this one contains adware.

btw after using this codec I dont see green on my media player and the video files etc play well.
peace

**WE_DELIVER** · February 16th, 2004, 03:26 AM

You know....now that we are talking about this kind of stuff I have been having a serious problem.

One day I started having playback problems for any avi and mpeg files.

Everytime I would play one, I would hear the sound, but the the screen would be black(not just regular black but "video black") which means it was trying to play back the video as well. I tried reinstalling Windows Media Player, the codecs, drivers, and eventually Windows itself only to get the problem again.

My hypothesis is that the problem appears after going through windows update, but to this day, I have not been able to figure out the problem.

Any ideas?

**zaphodiv** · February 16th, 2004, 04:51 AM

I'v had trouble with media palyers and codecs.

My approach is to not use windows media player.

I find that media player classic, real alternative, quicktime alternative, divx player + AC3 codec and whatever else it asks for when it encounters an unsupported format and videolan player cover everything.

**bball_1523** · February 16th, 2004, 09:41 AM

Originally Posted by zaphodiv

I'v had trouble with media palyers and codecs.

My approach is to not use windows media player.

I find that media player classic, real alternative, quicktime alternative, divx player + AC3 codec and whatever else it asks for when it encounters an unsupported format and videolan player cover everything.

then what do i use to view my avi and mpeg files?

**mrdingaling** · February 16th, 2004, 01:14 PM

Use DivX player.

I've had so many problems with media player recently (mainly picture freezing while sound carries on), but everything works hunky dory in DivX player.

**Star Guitar** · February 16th, 2004, 02:17 PM

I've had that happen before, but it's been a while. I think I used a combination of an xvid codec, and the fddshow codec. Try VideoLAN if nothing else.

**killswitch1968** · February 16th, 2004, 03:28 PM

In my experience, Media Player CLassic with the K-Lite Codec pack is the best for playing just about everything. VideoLan is also good.

stay away from WMP

**CompuGeek** · February 16th, 2004, 04:02 PM

http://www.videolan.org/vlc

Plays everything. Don't have to play with codecs.

**Killawat** · February 16th, 2004, 06:12 PM

lemme guess, you tried to play an XVid file huh

**Miniver** · February 16th, 2004, 06:36 PM

your problem probably lies in the use of the ffdshow filter. Try uninstalling it. Also read this article. http://www.rita.lt/video_tools/help/green.htm