A potentially life-saving tip. Installing Realplayer, or certain video codecs, or just breathing the wrong way on the full moon, can cause WMV format files to play in a horrible, acid-trippy green/yellow mess. Reported casues and solutions are diverse (installing the in/famous K-lite Codec Pack may be either), but these two seem to be reliably frequent: - Nvidia: Install latest drivers, go to colour correction and set changes to apply to "all". - ATI (worked on my X1900xt): in the Catalyst Control Center, go to Avivo video --> All settings, and disable Windows Media Video Acceleration. - For embedded videos that do it, right-click the vid and in Options, turn the acceleration slider to off. If anyone has further useful info on this irritating problem, or further solutions, post and I'll merge it. I'm still researching, but if the problem is as common as it seems I'll ask someone nicely to make this a sticky sources: http://forums.3drealms.com/vb/showthread.php?t=12841 http://www.3dgameman.com/forums/showthread.php?t=19424&page=4 http://forums.cnet.com/5208-6035_10...=132678&messageID=1495712&tag=rss.rbf#1495712 http://club.cdfreaks.com/showthread.php?t=141564 http://forums.bit-tech.net/showthread.php?t=138116
K-Lite installs at least 6 different AVI decoders, all of which do exactly the same job - and can conflict. For example: DivX 3, 4, 5 & 6, XviD, FFDshow Either use FFDshow on its own or use CCCP which will install FFDshow with a couple other decoders and set them all up properly without conflicts.
Duly noted and modified. Come to think of it, my green effect occurred shortly after using the K-lite codecs.
