video issues

Dear Windows Forums, This is my first time posting here as I have found myself caught in an emergency with my laptop. I have purhcased an Asus N550 Laptop with Windows 8 installed already (so I have no CD) merely yesterday, and I believe that I have slipped up somewhere and made a fatal...

Starting relatively recently, many computers running Firefox (V29 and 28, maybe even 27), have been experiencing problems with Shockwave: plug-in crashing, plug-in and Firefox hanging while trying to play Flash videos, videos taking forever to load, etc. I tried the usual fixes unsuccessfully...

I downloaded a couple of movies and when I tried to play it I get a message to download webxvid codec to watch it. I download a codec-setup-123 but it still doesn't play the videos.I think it was just a scam cause nothing happens,is there a way to play this video?

I got out my soundcard and wifi-card and now the pc works again. Though i like to know the culprit. I managed to download and run all of the programs, the Windows 7 tool, RAMmon, and the CPUZ tool. I've got all of the relevant screenshots and files in a zip file. Incidentially, for some...

Hello, I have a problem with my WMP. I use Windows 7 64 bits. When i play videos in WMP without AERO on, appears a bars shaking... is't normal?? With AERO i dont have this problem BUT when i iconify the WMP and i turn to WMP is very slow and a with a lot of pixels... :( help me please...

I don't know if this is the appropriate forum for this topic but I could not find an answer for this anywhere: since upgrading from Windows Vista 64bit to Windows 7 64 bit, whenever I'm watching a video on YouTube I hear advertizements running in the background that have nothing to do with the...

Unlike everybody else here, I have a different problem with COM Surrogate. I noticed something wasn't right when I got random freeze-ups playing audiosurf which is sensitive to CPU usage. I opened task manager and saw about every 15 seconds, there is a spike in the CPU usage. I checked the...

Hello I returned home earlier to find my computer in a very laggy state, and I wasn't able to play any of my games. An action center scan revealed a 'video hardware error'. The files that describe the problem are two xml files and a dmp, they are attached. I am only a teen, and at the moment...

I'm encountering odd problems while trying to rebuild my Windows 7 desktop PC. Background: I purchased my desktop PC (a Dell Studio XPS 435 MT, with Radeon HD4670 and dual monitors) about three years ago. It came with Windows Vista. Soon after I received this PC, I formatted the system...

Fixes an issue in which effects are applied to a video unexpectedly when you create the video by using a digital video (DV) source and the DV Encoder filter. This issue occurs on a computer that is running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 and that... More...

Hi everyone. I have installed windows 8 preview and I love it. There are a few minor things that need to be improve ,but that's alright. I downloaded media center and installed it. They have another video player that is troubling me. You can play videos without the media center extension in...

I, like many, have a NVidia card. Some time ago NVidia offered a driver for Windows8. Even, after grabbing that, I continued to have video occasional vid issues. Ergo, I would check Update Driver & be told it was a good as could be. Was getting some hiccups, again, today & checked, again...

Hey guys, sorry if this is the wrong place to put this. I have an HP Laptop, dxdiag below: Basically, whenever I try to play a game (in this case, it's League of Legends), I get frequent and random blue screen of deaths. I never get much of a chance to read what it says, but I have noticed...

running windows 7 ultimate 64 bitthe system keeps crashing/freezing, no BSOD, nothing in the event log, just complete system freeze. sometimes it may crash several times a day, sometimes it may go for several days without crashing. Some things I have found which regularly cause a crash. Trying...

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I got my laptop in October of 2011, and it has WMP12.0 but for some reason ever since I got the laptop I cannot play a full song or movie using Windows Media Player. Whenever I play a song it automatically skips to the next one after a few minutes. I thought maybe the songs were corrupted but it...

Yesterday, I noticed my taskbar acting strange. I was using Firefox at the time, and my taskbar would just start blinking rapidly. Right now as I type, my screen is blinking, my taskbar is flickering rapidly, and the icons on my taskbar are enlarging quickly. This happens when I am not in...

This only happens when I'm watching YouTube. Itll say video error occured and driver reset. This only occured during the previous Nvidia driver. Once updated it didnt happen. However, I was playing Battlefield 3 and had a youtube video running in the background and the sound stuttered as before...

Fixes an issue in which the video playback is choppy when you play a high-definition video over a remote desktop connection in Windows 7 or in Windows Server 2008 R2. When this issue occurs, the CPU usage on the computer is high. More...

I have just bought an alienware with windows 7 recently and i am dissapionted as windows 7 has made my video player quality very poor comparing to my windows vista. Link Removed due to 404 Error as you can see the windows media player has too much red and looks darker than the quicktime...