Video clips won't play

[Sensible]

I have a problem which I have only just discovered, I have various video clips downloaded onto my hard drive and have previously watched DVD's and downloaded news video clips all entirely satisfactorily. I tried a few days ago to watch a news video and found that the sound was ok but the video was wishy washy and appeared like a colour negative. I have tried re-installing Realplayer and Windows Media Player 10 but this has changed nothing. When I try to play a DVD in Windows media player, I get an error message:

"Windows Media Player cannot play DVD video. Open Display in Control Panel, and then lower your screen resolution and color quality settings. To view the DVD Troubleshooter, click More Information."

I have tried every possible screen resolution and colour quality setting without the slightest improvement.

The only thing which I have done recently is to change the lcd screen from 15" to 19" but can't understand how that may have changed anything!

I am running Windows XP professional as I have always done on this machine. Any clues would be very much appreciated

[stickyb]

When you changed screens did the new one come with any drivers?

Try going into Device Manager, deleteing the screen, and reloading. Windows shouls find and reinstall.

[Sensible]

Anyone seen my MPEG-2 Decoder?

Many thanks for that, I am now able to play news video clips and downloaded video clips from my hard drive.

Edited to say now the DVD is up and running superbly as well after re-installing a program called Power DVD Thanks a bundle for the advice!

[BRL]

Hi Steve. Have a look at the January edition of PCFormat. There is a good section on these kind of faults, about 20 'fixes' for future reference.