khat17
09-21-2008, 02:03 AM
I'll be making reference to a friend of mine called N1 who is from Cali and a fellow tech and a member of another forum site that I frequent.
Well, you know how it is. Sometimes you come across an issue, and talking to another tech helps to fix the issue. Here's a quick share on a problem and a fix.
I came across a problem on a friend's PC. He said that it just would not play any video. I had quickly installed CCCP and left it at that, since I didn't have time to test it. He told me some time later on that it still would not play any video - and that was really weird to me. So I did a bit of checking. Made settings changes to CCCP, tried VLC, tried KMPLAYER, tried MPC-HC, and still nothing. I even downloaded this little utility out of K-LITE in order to disable some of the functions of Windows' decoding abilities to see what happened. No results.
I came online and talked to N1 about it for a while, and after some juggling around there were three suggestions left - one of which I completely didn't think of.
Reinstall DIRECTX
Reinstall Graphics Drivers
Reinstall Windoze
Of those, I didn't think of the graphics driver - but looking at the issue it made sense. It wasn't really that there was no video, just that it was trying to render the video and it was all jumbled up on the screen. It kinda looked like it was trying to render the information multiple times. So here's what I did.
Checked the system for any other stuff that was installed that I thought not necessary, and removed them. An ATI Driver - it was a SIS 315 AGP card. DIVX - CCCP would work for whatever is dished out (except maybe RM and MOV until those are setup.....) and then rebooted. After testing and no improvement, I went on to reinstall DIRECTX. After no improvement, I got the latest driver for the graphics card, and installed them. I'm not sure where the installed driver had come from, but after installing the latest driver and rebooting, all was well. Either it was a default driver from Windows, or one from off a driver CD, but either the driver fixed it (most likely) or a combination of the driver and removing all the other stuff. But that's one for you to check on the next time something like that happens.
Hope you found this post helpful.
PeAcE.
Well, you know how it is. Sometimes you come across an issue, and talking to another tech helps to fix the issue. Here's a quick share on a problem and a fix.
I came across a problem on a friend's PC. He said that it just would not play any video. I had quickly installed CCCP and left it at that, since I didn't have time to test it. He told me some time later on that it still would not play any video - and that was really weird to me. So I did a bit of checking. Made settings changes to CCCP, tried VLC, tried KMPLAYER, tried MPC-HC, and still nothing. I even downloaded this little utility out of K-LITE in order to disable some of the functions of Windows' decoding abilities to see what happened. No results.
I came online and talked to N1 about it for a while, and after some juggling around there were three suggestions left - one of which I completely didn't think of.
Reinstall DIRECTX
Reinstall Graphics Drivers
Reinstall Windoze
Of those, I didn't think of the graphics driver - but looking at the issue it made sense. It wasn't really that there was no video, just that it was trying to render the video and it was all jumbled up on the screen. It kinda looked like it was trying to render the information multiple times. So here's what I did.
Checked the system for any other stuff that was installed that I thought not necessary, and removed them. An ATI Driver - it was a SIS 315 AGP card. DIVX - CCCP would work for whatever is dished out (except maybe RM and MOV until those are setup.....) and then rebooted. After testing and no improvement, I went on to reinstall DIRECTX. After no improvement, I got the latest driver for the graphics card, and installed them. I'm not sure where the installed driver had come from, but after installing the latest driver and rebooting, all was well. Either it was a default driver from Windows, or one from off a driver CD, but either the driver fixed it (most likely) or a combination of the driver and removing all the other stuff. But that's one for you to check on the next time something like that happens.
Hope you found this post helpful.
PeAcE.