Hi There, New to forums. Can anyone help? I have the above internal DVD drive on a PC I bought 5 months ago from a computer fair. Problem is I can play DVD's on it but the quality is awful. The colours and lighting are completely psychadelic and virtually unwatchable. I have had this problem from day one of buying it but kind of put off trying to something about it for ages and watched DVD's in a normal DVD player instead. It is the same with all DVD's. I have tried copies of all varieties as well as original DVD's of films etc. and it is the same appearance...horrible contrast, lighting and colour. This is on VLC Media PLayer, Windows Media Player 10 and Realplayer and all have the same effect. Can someone please advise as it is driving me crazy? Is it my DVD player? Can it not playback DVD's? Thanks Andy
Hi. Might be the burner is bad or it could be corrupted codecs. Try downloading and installing this codec package and see if that solves your problem. http://www.free-codecs.com/download/K_Lite_Codec_Pack.htm
Thanks for that. Not an expert with the PC by any means. I have downloaded the K-lite codec pack - excuse my not amazing knowledge but what now? Do I configure the settings or is this done automatically? At present it seems to have defaulted all my video playback to Media Player Classic and the colour thing is as bad as ever on that. The DVD playback is still the same quality.
If you want to change back to WMP as the default: 1. In Control Panel, select Add or Remove Programs. 2. Click the Set Program Access and Defaults icon. 3. Click the Custom radio button. 4. Click the double down arrow on the extreme right to expand. 5. Under "Choose a Default Media Player:", select Windows Media Player and click OK. I guess the next thing to try would be reinstalling your video display drivers via Device Manager. This likely will mess up the ordering of your icons on the Desktop and default all your desktop settings. Right click on My Computer and select Properties. Click the Hardware tab and then the Device Manager button. Click the "+" symbol beside Display Adapters. Right click the name of the display adapter and select Uninstall. Restart the system. Upon restart a generic VGA video driver will load. There will be a new hardware found message, and messages about searching for video drivers for the new hardware. Once this startup process is complete, restart your system again. The new video driver will be in charge. Reset your desktop and defaults to whatever you want, and then restart again.
