WMP10 with VMR enabled : monochrome moeg-4

I may have found a bug in Windows Media Player 10.00.00.3937 (the one that
comes with MCE 2005 rollup 2).

I wanted to enable VMR in Windows Media Player, so I did this :

1. Launch Windows Media Player
2. Click on Tools > Options on the menu bar
3. Click on the Performance tab
4. Click on the Advanced button
5. File Playback Video mixing renderer mode: check “Use video mixing
renderer� and “use high quality mode�

When using the "high quality mode", MPEG-4 ASP files (XviD, DivX5, Nero
Digital) are played back in black&white with a greenish haze. I tried
changing the video decoder, but that did not resolve this issue.

I have a GeForce 6600 GT videocard (with ForceWare 81.95 and PureVideo
1.02-185).

How do I contact the Windows Media Team, I want to perform a bug report?

On Thu, 1 Dec 2005 03:26:04 -0800, dxva_vmr9_rocks
<dxva_vmr9_rocks@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>I may have found a bug in Windows Media Player 10.00.00.3937 (the one that
>comes with MCE 2005 rollup 2).
>
>I wanted to enable VMR in Windows Media Player, so I did this :
>
>1. Launch Windows Media Player
>2. Click on Tools > Options on the menu bar
>3. Click on the Performance tab
>4. Click on the Advanced button
>5. File Playback Video mixing renderer mode: check “Use video mixing
>renderer” and “use high quality mode”
>
>When using the "high quality mode", MPEG-4 ASP files (XviD, DivX5, Nero
>Digital) are played back in black&white with a greenish haze. I tried
>changing the video decoder, but that did not resolve this issue.

I saw this a Long Time Ago on the WM10 Beta when I was using NVidia
drivers with WMP, but it eventually went away.

I've not seen many problem reports since then with NVidia hardware.

>I have a GeForce 6600 GT videocard (with ForceWare 81.95 and PureVideo
>1.02-185).

Your card is way newer than mine, I'm assuming - are those the most
recent drivers from the Nvidia site ? Just out of interest I wonder if
it would work with slightly older drivers. It does definitely sound
like a driver issue rather than a player specific problem.

It's not unknown for a manufacturer update to introduce playback
problems ... it could be worth checking the NVidia forums for info on
the forceware drivers just to be sure. I guess it's also worth
compiling a list of any effects which can be reproduced by varying the
driver (NView) configuration using the nvidia control panel...

The NVidia purevideo decoder AFAIK is "known good", I haven't heard of
any playback problems with DVDs using that.

>How do I contact the Windows Media Team, I want to perform a bug report?

It's really rather hard once a product is so far out of Beta and in
release to market. You might consider bugging this once the WMP11 beta
becomes available (no idea on any timeframe but there's sure to be one
eventually).

HTH
Cheers 0i Neil

Thanks Neill for your response, a friend of mine has the same problem with a
GeForce 6150 (I think he uses ForceWare 81.87). When using 'high quality
mode' the mpeg-4 video's are played back in black&white (sometimes with a
green of red haze).

"Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" wrote:

> On Thu, 1 Dec 2005 03:26:04 -0800, dxva_vmr9_rocks
> <dxva_vmr9_rocks@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> >I may have found a bug in Windows Media Player 10.00.00.3937 (the one that
> >comes with MCE 2005 rollup 2).
> >
> >I wanted to enable VMR in Windows Media Player, so I did this :
> >
> >1. Launch Windows Media Player
> >2. Click on Tools > Options on the menu bar
> >3. Click on the Performance tab
> >4. Click on the Advanced button
> >5. File Playback Video mixing renderer mode: check “Use video mixing
> >renderer� and “use high quality mode�
> >
> >When using the "high quality mode", MPEG-4 ASP files (XviD, DivX5, Nero
> >Digital) are played back in black&white with a greenish haze. I tried
> >changing the video decoder, but that did not resolve this issue.
>
> I saw this a Long Time Ago on the WM10 Beta when I was using NVidia
> drivers with WMP, but it eventually went away.
>
> I've not seen many problem reports since then with NVidia hardware.
>
> >I have a GeForce 6600 GT videocard (with ForceWare 81.95 and PureVideo
> >1.02-185).
>
> Your card is way newer than mine, I'm assuming - are those the most
> recent drivers from the Nvidia site ?

Yes, ForceWare 81.95 is the most recent driver.


Just out of interest I wonder if
> it would work with slightly older drivers. It does definitely sound
> like a driver issue rather than a player specific problem.

I just deinstalled ForceWare 81.95, rebooted, installed ForceWare 77.79
(WHQL & ISF Certified), rebooted and experienced the same problem (b&w
mpeg-4 video's)

>
> It's not unknown for a manufacturer update to introduce playback
> problems ... it could be worth checking the NVidia forums for info on
> the forceware drivers just to be sure. I guess it's also worth
> compiling a list of any effects which can be reproduced by varying the
> driver (NView) configuration using the nvidia control panel...
>
> The NVidia purevideo decoder AFAIK is "known good", I haven't heard of
> any playback problems with DVDs using that.
>
> >How do I contact the Windows Media Team, I want to perform a bug report?
>
> It's really rather hard once a product is so far out of Beta and in
> release to market. You might consider bugging this once the WMP11 beta
> becomes available (no idea on any timeframe but there's sure to be one
> eventually).
>
> HTH
> Cheers 0i Neil
>
>