Windows All movies black and white

im running windows 2k3 sp1, untill recently all my movies are now black and white, all formats Divx, Mpeg, Mpg, AVI, WMV, even dvds burnt origanal u name it

doesnt matter what it is its black and white in all players winamp power dvd winmeadia player everything

any ideas or fixes coz i dont really wanna format but i might have to

 

try using ffdshow with media player classic

 

if your using windows server 2003 then you need to enable a few things like directx, hardware acceleration too. some other bits i have prob forgotten too.

you really shouldnt be using it for videos.

 

done that thats how i can play games and run other programs

it wasnt untill 2-3 days ago is started doing this

ill try FFdshow now actuall didnt think of that