Have you recently made any changes to your pc?
Updates to windows?
Updates to the ati drivers?
Installed any software?
Installed any codec packs?

If so, try removing them, or use system restore to go back to a pre-install
state.

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Graham Hughes
MVP Digital Media
www.myvideoproblems.co.uk
www.dvds2treasure.com
www.simplydv.com


"Rob" <MilwRobREMOVE@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:ry62f.71735$mb4.39790@tornado.rdc-kc.rr.com...
>I have some videos copied from TV that I captured with an ATI All In Wonder
>Radeon video card. These were saved as MP2 video files. Never had any
>problem with these files until today. Now when I play these files with
>Windows Media Player or the ATI File Player, the aspect ratio is wrong -
>picture is squeezed together - and the audio has a popping noise in it,
>plus the audio and video are out of sync.
>
> A few weeks back, I did copy these files to a data DVD to preserve them.
> When I play any of these from the data DVD, I get the same results. BUT,
> when I put the data DVD in another computer, the video plays fine. So I
> tried copying some of the video files to a CD from my hard drive - same
> thing, they play fine on another computer but are all messed up on mine.
> I have no idea how to solve this problem but I can't help but think it is
> something with the ATI captures codecs on my computer, if that is the
> correct term to use.
>
> As I said, this computer has an ATI All In Wonder Radeon video card.
> Processor is a Pentium 4, 1.6, 384 ram, Windows XP Home with SP2.
>
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