when a dvd is inserted and run in media player, it plays and there is sound
however no picture. It doesnt come up with any error messages and the dvd is
not corrupt as I have been able to view them before. When played in interwin
dvd it says create overlay failed change screen resolution or colour depth. I
have never needed to change anything before and the hardware acceleration is
on full already (thats another thing nit asks me to do).

If Interwin doesn't work, then WMP isn't going to work. "Full" isn't
necessarily best if your video card driver doesn't actually support that...
I'd start with Interwin support, since you need that working before WMP is
going to work.
http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html#mpeg2

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See http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info.
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"confused mitz" <confused mitz@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> when a dvd is inserted and run in media player, it plays and there is
> sound
> however no picture. It doesnt come up with any error messages and the dvd
> is
> not corrupt as I have been able to view them before. When played in
> interwin
> dvd it says create overlay failed change screen resolution or colour
> depth. I
> have never needed to change anything before and the hardware acceleration
> is
> on full already (thats another thing nit asks me to do).