Playback problem with all video formats!

I cannot play any videos! I can hear the sound, but I get a black screen. I tried WinAmp, WMP 10, DivX player, NeroShow, nothing but a black screen and sound! .Avis, .mpegs, .wmvs, nothing. I tried downloading Nimo, it didn't do anything. Has anyone experienced this before, or heard how to fix it?

Oh, I'm running SP2.

I tried re-installing Winamp and WMP 10. Still no show.I can see the .wmv's in Windows Movie Maker, but not WMP 10 or WinAmp!
In case their was an encoder conflict, I unistalled WinAmp, TMPGEnc, WinAvi, DVD Shrink, but I left my Nero Suite, on, since I can't find the cd and I'm afraid if I uninstall it I may not get it back.

Still nothing!

I tried to re-install my Catalyst drivers, fooled with the settings (I usually run at "Optimal" I have a gig of ram and a 9800xt, with an overclocked AMD Mobile Athlon XP 2500+running at 2.32 ghz)

My quicktime works fine.

Still no video. I can only hear my porn!

Dyou have all the proper codecs installed?

Originally posted by dreamlandmafia
Do you have all the proper codecs installed?

Yes, but maybe they are corrupted? That's why I uninstalled and re-installed everything, and tried Nimo. Besides, WMP 10 shouldn't need any files to play .WMV, and WinAmp and WMP10 both download codecs automatically.

I have Tune-Up utilities, but I just wish there was a program I could run that would just check my video stuff and fix it!

I figured it out! I was going to roll back my Catalyst drivers, but then I googled for problems with 4.10


The Control Panel 'Contrast' and 'Saturation' was set at 0!

I don't know how it happened, maybe it defaulted that way.

I'm so happy! :beer: