Check this out? Is this normal? I have 8800GTX (Screenshots included)

Hey guys, I recently installed Windows7 and then I installed the latest nvidia drivers for my 8800GTX card.

After that I installed K-Lite codec pack. Now when I play any movie using any media player, The video has rough edges. Look at the screenshots below.

The thing is I have uninstalled K-Lite codec pack. After I uninstalled it I tried playing the video again. Firs Media Player Classic gave me some sort of "missing codec" error, then it proceeded to play the video.

Now since I uninstalled the codec pack, the video shouldn't have been able to play.

Anyways I have included the screenshot of both video performances. You can seen that in one set of screenshots the video is smooth, It has no edges, and no artifacts. The other set of screenshots has edges and noise. This one is from Windows. The other is from my laptop which runs XP.

This computer was also running XP before I installed Win7 on it. And it used to play videos flawlessly.

Now I don't know what the problem is. Could it be some setting in video card? or is it codec?


THanks!

Here is a picture of Brian. As you can see the image on the left side is smooth. Whereas the image on the right side has jagged edges.



Here is a picture of Spock. Again same this. The image on the right is what I used to have when I had XP running on my computer But I don't know what codec I had. The image on the right is messed up and is of Win7


Here is the same thing.

 

re-size the images or post thumbnails instead plz, it will help people help you

 

Fixed. Still a bit big, but if I make em small the detail might be lost.

 

The win7 looks like it's in super low resolution.. you can actually see each pixel lol. Weird, is this happening only with the windows media thing or with any video player? Maybe a setting is wrong somewhere.

 

First things first: does your XP and Win7 have the same resolution setting? It seems like, for example XP is set at 1280x800 and then Win7 at 1920x1080 (or something), and then when you toggle the Media Player fullscreen it blows up the image enormously, hence the pixellations. That might also explain why the photos taken from XP is smaller, and the Win7 ones are bigger, blown up, since I assume you just kind of captured a screenshot using printscreen..

This happens when the videos have a small resolution and you play it on a computer with a very high res--very far from a driver/GPU problem. Maybe you should try to play a High-Def movie and see if this still exists.

 

Isn' that to be discussed in desktopreview??

 

Do a system restore back to a point BEFORE you installed the k-lite codec pack (ugh). Then, install the latest FFDShow and try again.

 

I was about to say that actually so you should do this. It might be boring and take some while and if you don't wish to go through this process you should try something else.

 

Use "Media Player Classic Home Cinema" and FFDShow Tryouts. Problem solved.