when playing video files the screen turns purple!

[JazzyJake]

hey guys
i was hoping ya'll could help me with this...
when i go to play video files, it shows up purple. IN ALL PLAYERS!
everything from WMP11 (including online files) to quicktime. FLASH FILES, however, are fine.
there's an example of what i mean

[polobunny]

That problem appeared with Windows Media Player 11 right? The first time I installed WMP11 it also ****ed my stuff. Go to add/remove programs and remove Windows Media Player 11 and Windows Media Player 11 runtimes (two separate components)
See if your videos are still purple. If they still are purple, report it here.

[yurimxpxman]

WMP11 is really screwy. I recommend everyone sticks with WMP10 for now.

[polobunny]

Originally Posted by yurimxpxman

WMP11 is really screwy. I recommend everyone sticks with WMP10 for now.

Seconded. I really had a hard time fixing my problem, and to be honest in the end i'm not exactly sure what I did to fix it totally. It was something like re-install DX9, reboot, remove WMP11 and WMP11 routines, reboot, re-install Combined Community Codec Pack, reboot. Then my WMV files looked like they had a "bezel" in the lower right corner. I rebooted and it was gone, I think.
I'm not too sure someone like me (not boosting my ego or anything, but I like to think I know a bit more than the casual user) should have such a problem playing his video files that were working properly before... The initial problem was that I couldn't play video in anything else than WMP11 when using the DirectShow default renderer, I had to use an alternative renderer such as Haali. =|

[JazzyJake]

it rolled wmp back to version 9
i'll find a place to DL 10 tonight *sigh*

[yurimxpxman]

No worries. You're not missing out on anything by avoiding WMP11. It has no new features, just a messier and more confusing layout that's similar to IE7. (Not to mention its ugly theme.)

[polobunny]

Originally Posted by JazzyJake

it rolled wmp back to version 9
i'll find a place to DL 10 tonight *sigh*

Well anything other than 11 is OK. Tell us if the same problem occurs, maybe someone can help you.

[Mithosphere]

Well i have had a similair problem, just with VLC, couldnt figure it out, then i just restarted and it worked fine. Did you install any programs recently? If anything reboot and remove wmp11, i agree with all these guys wmp11 just sucks, people should switch over to winamp

[pc_guy]

If anybody already doesn't know, OldVersion.com has previous wmp versions as well as other programs.

[Hitman]

I have had that problem before, a reboot usually fixes it. I have seen this problem in both WMP 9 and 10. I have never investigated to figure out the real problem, I just reboot and it goes away.

One of the times it happened it was because of a bad codec. I reinstalled a more recent one and the problem went away.