Green screen on playback

[LARRAJ]

I’m running windows Vista computer having both Media Player as well Media Center. I also have two cards, that is GeForce 8400GS (which I use most of the time) and Nvidia GEForce 7300GT. Now the problem is when I play any movie in either Media Center or Media player with GeForce 8400GS connected, I get Green Screen with audio (no video). If I play the same movie at the same time in VLC, it plays fine.

On other hand, when I connect GEForce 7300GT, there is no green screen in media player or media center and everything works fine. So the problem is only with GeForce 8400GS but I use it because it supports HDMI out with audio. I tried updating card’s drivers to most recent version but that dint solved the problem.

Any idea what could be wrong with GeForce 8400GS and how can I fix it? Many thanks for your helps.

[Han$naH]

Before I could suggest anything, I would like to know whether you are running any Service Pack on your Vista? Also do you have any codec packs installed?

Meanwhile try changing nVidia settings. This may fix the green screen problem.

[LARRAJ]

Thanks for your reply Han$naH. Yes, I have Vista Service Pack 1 and the following codes are found on my system:

Video Codecs

• ICM Microsoft RLE MRLE msrle32.dll 6.0.6000.16386
• ICM Microsoft Video 1 MSVC msvidc32.dll 6.0.6001.18000
• ICM Microsoft YUV UYVY msyuv.dll 6.0.6000.16386
• ICM Intel IYUV codec IYUV iyuv_32.dll 6.0.6000.16386
• ICM Toshiba YUV Codec Y411 tsbyuv.dll 6.0.6000.16386
• ICM Cinepak Codec by Radius cvid iccvid.dll 1.10.0.12
• DMO Mpeg4s Decoder DMO mp4s, MP4S, m4s2, M4S2 mp4sdecd.dll 11.0.6001.7000
• DMO WMV Screen decoder DMO MSS1, MSS2 wmvsdecd.dll 11.0.6001.7000
• DMO WMVideo Decoder DMO WMV1, WMV2, WMV3, WMVP, WVP2, WMVR, WMVA, WVC1wmvdecod.dll 11.0.6001.7000
• DMO Mpeg43 Decoder DMO mp43, MP43 mp43decd.dll 11.0.6001.7000
• DMO Mpeg4 Decoder DMO MPG4, mpg4, mp42, MP42 mpg4decd.dll 11.0.6001.7000

MPEG/DVD Filters

• video SageTV MPEG Video Decoder stvmcdsmpeg.ax 1.0.0.65
• video Nero Video Decoder NeVideo.ax 3.2.0.20
• video Nero DVD Decoder NeVideo.ax 3.2.0.20
• video Microsoft MPEG-2 Video Decoder msmpeg2vdec.dll 11.0.6001.7000
• video SageTV MPEG-2 Video Decoder stvm2vd.ax 7.5.0.27713

[Stuartl]

Did you installed Sp1 recently before the problem started? I guess so because SP1 may also be the cause of problem. It may be worth a try to uninstall it and then download the complete file to your hard drive and re-install it from there. For more help and info check this KB article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/948537/en-us