My Nemesis! Greeeeeeeen!

[riari]

Have I mentioned the annoying thing that happens half or more the times I try to watch videos on my machine?

Greeeeeeen My nemesis. Back to annoy me by keeping me from watching my videos.

It doesn't seem to matter whether it is a avi, mov, or mkv. It goes green. Restarting the movie is the only way to clear it, providing it doesn't happen again while watching the restarted movie. And it does a lot, of course. I get more green videos than not.

I've asked about this before, and we think its hardware. I've uninstalled and reinstalled codecs, video drivers, and so on. I haven't tried a full OS reinstall, but that's the absolute last resort besides buying a new video card. Because it will take days to redownload all the patches. I'm thinking about trying reseating the video card and seeing if that helps. Though this was happening before this current video card I believe.

This bothers me most right now since I'm trying out Code Geass and I can't get the second episode to play without going green before the first subtitle shows up. I think the first episode playing fine was a fluke. A horrible, teasing fluke. Oh sure, play Fafner -Right of Left- fine. I've already seen that one. :P

Bah. Bah, I say!

I wonder if I should ask the CoH tech forums about that. Though it doesn't seem to be affecting CoH, that I know of. Hmmm...

ETA: Ahahahahaha. Less than ten minutes after making this post, I tried again and what do you know. The episode played fine. Aw man, Code Geass looks like its going to be awesome fun. I'm so looking forward to August for the first release. Bandai's got some convoluted release plan for it but once some details are finalized, I'm going to pre-order (once a job is aquired of course). :>

Comments

[sarcastic-elf.livejournal.com]

Could it be that your OS is having issues with current codecs?

[riari.livejournal.com]

Its possible. Though the base Windows Media 9 codec can also get a green video screen. I wonder if its a memory thing. Software conflicts are annoying to track down. I'm behind an update or two on the divx codec. It keeps saying there's an update but its a large download so I wait most of the time. I may run it overnight this week.

Playing wmv files can trigger it less as often, but that maybe due to file/movie size. Those use the Windows Media 9 codec. My bigger videos have a tendency to go green more often. Quicktime movies do this as well.

I'm going to have to do more testing. Its hit or miss when this happens but when it starts, it gets annoying fast.

[riari.livejournal.com]

And while I was typing that up, Firefox had a memory error. Then while reloading the session, it had another one.

A comedy of errors. That's what's happening.

Coincidence? Or related to movie greening? It was running during my quick testing of wmv and mov files.