Service Pack 3 disabled picture in video playback

[aphilio]

I’ve lost the ability to see the picture when playing videos. The problem occurred after updating to windows service pack 3. I’ve tried uninstalling all my codec’s and re installing them (k-lite mega) also tried uninstalling and re-installing the drivers for my video card to no avail,

Its almost as if the files are playing fine just not showing me the picture . for instance if i use winamp to play the files it allows me to manipulate the windows as if there was a video playing and the winamp symbol disappears from the middle of it.

Video inspector confirms that all the codecs are there and theoretically its should play.

 

[kimsland]

Try VLC media player
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

It sounds as though you may need to uninstall your Video Player (winamp ?) And do a fresh install of it, using the latest from the web.

 

[aphilio]

been there tried that, im starting to wonder if its a problem with direct draw, directx, direct 3d; but im not sure how to fix that, i temporarily got video back after decreasing the hardware acceleration on my video, but that ended up crashing my system as well.

 

[kimsland]

Try Xp Codec Pack: http://www.xpcodecpack.com/dl/XP-Codec-Pack-2.4.1.exe
Actually direct link not working try here: http://www.xpcodecpack.com/download

Actually here's another codec package that looks good: http://m5studio.internetdsl.pl/soft/codec8.3a.exe
.

 

[aphilio]

Thanks gave the codecs a shot, no change any other ideas

 

[kimsland]

Windows Media Player 11 Download
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/download/download.aspx