Video playback on XP

Looks like I have another XP problem You can tell I'm no good whenit comes to PCs

Recently I can't playback any type of video in Full screen without it looking like shit (using Windows Media player, DIVX player or Quick time). I used to be able to until I had that nasty virus attack and had to reinstall XP. Now all I can do is watch videos in their original resolution which of course looks really small on my PC. What I'd like to know is, is there an option somewhere on XP or Direct X9 that allows you to change the screen updates or something because at the moment the full screen video just updates about 1 frame per second if that.

Yakumo

 

Have you got your gfx card drivers installed properly?

 

I'm pretty sure they are but now that you mention it manybe I never re-installed them when I reinstalled XP. I'll give it a check.

Yakumo

EDIT
It turned out that the drivers that were installed were no good for XP so I downloaded some new XP drivers Alls working fine again now. thanks :smt033

 

Good good!

 

I'd advise not using Media Player (it's crap) or Quicktime (even crapper), use Media Player Classic/QuickAlternative/RealAlternative (MPC comes bundled with those last two).

 

if you get that issue again, check your accelleration settings as well.

 

I second using Media Player Classic. I'm sure about the fact it includes Real/QuickAlternative - well, the last time I played RealVideo on it, it would use the actual Real codec (since I had RealPlayer installed). I don't know how it does QuickTime. The separate Alternatives b0rked up for me - the Real one just looked like shite, and the QuickTime one just never worked (kept asking me to update).

MPC's great though - it plays EVERYTHING!! Even DVD video, without the need for any other MPEG2 codecs! It's also the only program (except maybe ffdshow and other screwy stuff like that) I know that will handle AVIs with multiple audio tracks - quite common with anime rips.

 

MPC is good but I highly advocate mplayer. Its simply incredible for what it does and is cross platform.

 

I don't need it to be multiplatform, I'm only running one

It generally won't do them properly unless you have the latest real/quickAlternative package installed.