Guest Minty Posted August 27, 2008 Report Share Posted August 27, 2008 Hello, I'm hoping someone will be able to diagnose a problem I'm having with my new laptop, it's using an 8600M GT 512Mb and using the drivers from the vendors website (www.pcspecialist.co.uk). The problem is that on certain video files, a sort of 'blue band' will appear down the center-left of the screen, as seen in the screenshot below. Now, the exact same files on my desktop (both with same codecs, CCCP) displays perfectly. This makes me think it may be a video driver issue but to be honest I have no idea :) Hopefully you can help :) Screenshot: *Note: The problem can sometime be reduced or eliminated using VNC Players "Deinterlace -> Discard" filter, however the quality of the video suffers (blocky, etc). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Minty Posted August 27, 2008 Report Share Posted August 27, 2008 Hello, I'm hoping someone will be able to diagnose a problem I'm having with my new laptop, it's using an 8600M GT 512Mb and using the drivers from the vendors website (www.pcspecialist.co.uk).The problem is that on certain video files, a sort of 'blue band' will appear down the center-left of the screen, as seen in the screenshot below. Now, the exact same files on my desktop (both with same codecs, CCCP) displays perfectly. This makes me think it may be a video driver issue but to be honest I have no idea :) Hopefully you can help :) Screenshot: *Note: The problem can sometime be reduced or eliminated using VNC Players "Deinterlace -> Discard" filter, however the quality of the video suffers (blocky, etc). Additionally, it's slightly different again in media player... This was hard to capture in a screenshot as windows media player output doesn't seem to be caught by "print screen", but basically the left half of the image is overlayed on the right side in an almost transparent blue... kinda weird. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wook Posted August 27, 2008 Report Share Posted August 27, 2008 well... I would have though it looks like a hardware issue. But you said chainging settings in the output can stop this from happening. so this indicates the opposite. have your tried downloading 'media player classic 6.4.9.1'. under output, selecting VMR 7 or 9 renderless... that may stop the issue. (if its not hardware) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Minty Posted August 28, 2008 Report Share Posted August 28, 2008 Unfortunately no joy :) It has the Windows Media Player issue, there's some yellow/blue 'hue-ing' here and there, with a clear (proper quality) verticle strip where the blue strip is on VLC :/ It has me completely stumpped :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wook Posted August 28, 2008 Report Share Posted August 28, 2008 have you tried disabling hardware acceleration? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Minty Posted August 28, 2008 Report Share Posted August 28, 2008 Well I removed everything except FFDShow (needed fore decoding) and Media Player Classic, playing the files on WMP has the same problem, hardware acelleration or not (at least the hopefully means my video card/drivers are fine?). MPC shows the same thing VNC Player did, except the blue/yellow 'stripes' are closer together. Screenshot of MPC: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Minty Posted August 28, 2008 Report Share Posted August 28, 2008 OK this is weird: I was asking a mate for some help and see asked for the video format, saying VNC would probably let you see it. So I reinstalled VNC Player, and had the same problem, and couldn't find the format. So I messed about with the deinterlacing options again and found that "Discard" no longer half-solved the problem, however "X" seemed to fix it with no reduction in quality... Then (and this is the weird bit) in the same session (i.e., I didn't close it and open it or anything) I switched off all deinterlacing, and it was still fine :S Really freaking weird, just hope it lasts xD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wook Posted August 28, 2008 Report Share Posted August 28, 2008 I think its a hardware issue... if it suddenly corrects itself then possible a crack that has, for some reason found a temp connection. i'd get it seen to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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