Q: I'm having video problems (such as green or pink lines on the video, choppy video, player hangs when playing video, and et cetera).
A: Check for video card driver updates from your vendor, and/or DirectX updates from WindowsUpdate.
If that doesn't help, turn down your hardware acceleration. If you're using WMP6 (mplayer2.exe): Open WMP's View:Options menu dialog. You'll see a slider there for "Hardware acceleration". Turning this down to None often works around whatever driver bug is creating your issue (and sometimes turning it up helps too). If you're using WMP7 or newer: Open WMP's Tools:Options
erformance:Advanced menu dialog. First try turning off overlays, and then if that does not help, turn off the Video Mixing Renderer.
Some people have also pointed out that unchecking "Start player in Media Guide" in WMP's Tools:Options menu dialog gets a video issue resolved, oddly enough.
If NetMeeting Remote Desktop Sharing is turned on, that can also cause performance problems.
Note that on Windows .Net Server, video hardware acceleration is turned off by default (since it's not beneficial to server performance). Thus video performance will suck. If you want to be using a .Net Server box as a player box(?), you'd need to turn system wide video hardware acceleration up. You can do this via right clicking on the desktop, choose Properties:Settings:Advanced:Troubleshooting and move the acceleration slider all the way to the right. You will also want to turn on DirectDraw - go to the Windows Start button, then at the Run prompt, enter 'Dxdiag'. Click on Display. Click on Enable DirectDraw if present.
If you're having problems staying in full screen mode, you should verify that your screen saver isn't knocking you out of full screen, and check whether turning off WMP's Tools:Options
erformance:Advanced : Enable Full Screen Mode Switch helps.
The full screen controls (on Windows XP and newer) will go away once you stop moving the mouse and the mouse cursor is not hovering over the controls. If you want 'em to go away faster, either uncheck WMP's Tools:Options
erformance:Advanced "Display full-screen controls" or get the TweakMP Power toy from WMPlugins.com and use that to tweak the settings as you would like 'em.
Also, using Google
Groups, Click Here, if that didn't work above...there are lots of people with that problem, though it seems to be mainly from years ago.
Good luck!
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