video playback
 

Hi, this is my first post. Tried to find this problem in the search, but no luck. I'm running limewire 4.12.4, java 1.5.0_03, on a dell 4700 with 160gb hard drive,with a X300SE radeon 128MB pci express video card. The problem I have is the video's playback is fine, I just have to use the really small player. If I blow it up 2X or full screen the picture breaks up really bad. Is my video card causing this? What would you recommend That wouldn't break the bank? Thanks, Mike

It could be just a case of the quality of the downloaded file...
Have you tried a store brought dvd movie, and what happens to the picture when you try full screen with these....:)

Store bought movies play fine. Any type of downloaded movie or video i've gotten plays badly in full screen. Audio is fine. Downloaded Song of the South last night and it plays like the others. Fine on the small player view, bad on full screen or 2X. I've tried Real player, Windows media player, and DivX player and they're all the same.

Well I dont think it would be a graphics card problem, as the other dvds play fine...I think it's more the quality of the downloads, try using the VLC media player as it can play just about all files without a hitch...
There's a list of codecs and a link for the VLC player in this thread...;)
http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...threadid=40665

You need the codecs. And it also depends on how the video file was encoded.

Did get the VLC player and it is the same way. Which codecs, and explain about the video file encoding.

If you have Windows XP, there's the XP Codec pack thats free. This is the one I use for videos and I use WMP 9x for playback. File encoding just means the way the file was made. Whats the file extension? DVD files may not play full screen in media players because it might be for wide screen playback. If it's for wide screen, you'll get the letterbox quailty on full screen playback.