WMP 11 installed with Vista Ultimate. Movies that played great with WMP 10
-- and which look great in other players -- have bands and weird colors and
look horrible. Movies were generated from Casio Exilim camera. Would
install 10 again of Vista would let me. Microsoft, quit pushing out your
beta crap as if it was finished!

On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 21:48:01 -0800, Tablet Tim
<TabletTim@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>WMP 11 installed with Vista Ultimate. Movies that played great with WMP 10
>-- and which look great in other players -- have bands and weird colors and
>look horrible. Movies were generated from Casio Exilim camera. Would
>install 10 again of Vista would let me. Microsoft, quit pushing out your
>beta crap as if it was finished!

More than likely it's a video card driver problem. What Beta vista
video card driver software are you running ? What happens if you
update it from the manufacturer to a Vista signed driver ?

Cheers - Neil
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This is the full retail version of Vista Ultimate which I installed on my
Compaq nc6220 notebook. I let Vista install whatever video drivers it wanted
to, and everything else, including games, looks and runs great. However, the
AVIs shot with the Casio Exilim, and even some WMV I have, are awful in WMP
11 but look fine in 10. Those same movies also look bad in Vista's Photo
Gallery, for what that's worth. Other video files, shot with a Canon
Powershot S3 IS, look great in WMP 11 and Photo Gallery.

On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 19:02:08 -0800, Tablet Tim
<TabletTim@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>
>This is the full retail version of Vista Ultimate which I installed on my
>Compaq nc6220 notebook. I let Vista install whatever video drivers it wanted


You sometimes have to do this manually however. Most of the drivers on
windows update are provided by manufacturers, but there's a definite
lag between them releasing the latest hardware drivers on their
website, and the signed drivers becoming available on windows update.

In summary : Grab them from the video card manufacturers website.

>to, and everything else, including games, looks and runs great. However, the
>AVIs shot with the Casio Exilim, and even some WMV I have, are awful in WMP
>11 but look fine in 10. Those same movies also look bad in Vista's Photo
>Gallery, for what that's worth. Other video files, shot with a Canon
>Powershot S3 IS, look great in WMP 11 and Photo Gallery.
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Digital Media MVP : 2004-2007
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/mvpfaqs