Spring RTS Engine

I keep trying to playback movies and videos but a lot of them have a problem where diagonal segments turn green across the screen and then once they go half the screen everything slows down drastically and I have to closedown the player program.

Any idea how to fix it?

Lol your moniter is trying to reclaim your movie with nanoloathe..

No. No I dont know how to fix your problem.

Its either: Graphics driver problem, software installation of the player. What player is it?

you use windows, right? try using mplayer (best) or vlc (good).

vlc even plays DVDs, so you don't have to use crappy powerdvd or whatever.

Use MPC to be honest.

Might be the driver, could be your graphics card itself...

What program are you using currently? If its windows media player try turning all the acceleration off.

yah media player 11.

I can use VLC with it but I'd prefer MP 11 or Winamp as VLC doesnt open in browsers.

Uh I use a combination of MPC and WMP. WMP for the browser plugin and MPC+ffdshow for movies.

Rattle, you might want to explain that MPC is Media Player Classic, there are still some ppl out there who don't know what it is. But tbh, beyond its ability to play obscure file types, i don't think its that great. Its playlisting ability is crap, and its audio functions are kinda fruity.

Sorry... well I assume everyone googles terms they don't understand.

The playlist is decent enough to queue up a bunch of videos (i.e. an entire series) and it's nothing more but a video player for me and it got lots of neat hotkeys for way more comfort than any WMP release. If it doesn't work then it's usually ffdshows fault. For some reason FLV stopped working right now... :'(
...but this got nothing to do with AF's problems.

You should try the MPC indeed. In the options menu (o) go to Playback -> Output and try the overlay mixer and VMR9 one (renderless) to pinpoint the trouble maker. I guess it's the overlay mode and hardware acceleration. MPC needs a restart after switching modes. No idea if you can do that in VLC as well... never been using it.

Also try to use ffdshow instead of seperate codecs.

I also get these problems with Quicktime too.

And I did try to remedy the problem by downloading ffdshow but altho it became slightly less common, I started getting errors, for example some videos caused crashes, and this would also cause explorer.exe to crash when generating thumbnails when ffdshow crashed trying to generate them.

Muzic wrote:Lol your moniter is trying to reclaim your movie with nanoloathe..

I'm not sure why, but at this moment this strikes me as the funniest forum post ever.