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    horrible video playback on xps 1340 running win7 HELP!

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by AlexSochi, Nov 5, 2009.

  1. AlexSochi

    AlexSochi Notebook Evangelist

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    I installed windows 7 today, and it looked just amazing and new, until I turned on my videos that I backed up. I have about 90 videos in different formats and they all have high resolution quality, but for some reason after doing a clean install of win7 all of those videos run smudgy and blury and even a lil pixelated. Im running on high performance, all drivers from dell.com, and i even tried the new win7 display driver from nvidia and same results..

    Can anyone please help me?!! Im have 9400mG card setup, and in vista the video playback was perfect.... What should I do?
     
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    Which program are you using to play the videos?
     
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  3. AlexSochi

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    well on vista I used VLAN player all the time since it plays all formats. and the playback was GREAT!, but now on vlan is horrible very very pixelated hd films lol... so then i tried the windows media player which is a lot better in playback but still much worse than it used to be in vista!
    Thats where it confuses me!
    As well as I noticed that if I try watching HD youtube vidoes theyre pixelated a lil too :(
     
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    I posted this in the 1340 forum too. Update the VLC player to the newest one and update try nvidia's GPU drivers. When changing GPU drivers make sure your do a clean install of them by running Driver Cleaner or Driver Sweeper to get rid of all the residuals left from the uninstall.
     
    mr_bots, Nov 5, 2009
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