Posted on 11/08/2015 10:20:41 PM PST by An American in Turkiye
So I have been having some issues with video playback on my laptop. It doesn't happen often, but every once in awhile, I'll try to play a YouTube video or Windows Media Player vid, and the video is green. Audio still plays, but the screen is green. In some cases, WMV's are just a black screen, with audio playing. Any help/suggestions are appreciated.
Running Windows 8, BTW. I have 10 downloaded, just haven't upgraded yet
All of the techies will tell you to right click on the video and select “disable hardware acceleration” The only way I fixed my client’s HP laptop was to use a different browser. Firefox worked, Internet Explorer never did.
First thing I’d do is try a different media player. VLC is excellent and free. If 2 different software players both act up it may indicate a hardware or driver issue. I’d also google the heck out of green screen and black screen video playback.
/johnny
Throw us a linky or two that doesn’t work for you and we can test them using VLC and other browsers and narrow down a possible root cause for you.
VLC is excellent.
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type inetcpl.cpl and click ok
Click on advanced tab.
Under accelerated graphics (should be at or near top) check the box that says "Use software rendering instead of gpu rendering".
My laptop running 8 does that periodically as well. Sometimes double clicking on the playback screen reinstates the video but a reboot always clears the problem. It’s always the video at issue, never the audio.
Bump! This is the easiest, quickest way to a solution.
That said, Windows 10 has disrupted my computer. Shuts off and says "Critical Process Died"! Come to find out, my HP puter's drive isn't compatible with W-10. Just trying to fight through it until a fix is made.
do all the upgrades
i am pretty sure it is something to do with flash player
I had that problem but it long ago went away because I did all the upgrades
Turning off hardware acceleration sometimes fixes it but that has been fixed in later releases
My secondary video went out and the cheap onboard video displays everything with a greenish hue.
I've had problems with Chrome, but if you have Win 10, Microsoft Edge seems to work well.
Sounds like you do not have the appropriate video codec for the particular video player.
Video codecs are what cause various video formats to play.
If you knew the specific codec the particular video uses, you could download it. If not, you could download a general set of video codecs recommended for Win8.
Some videos have rather strange or not-typical codecs. Those need special attention.
Start by Googling ‘video codecs for windows 8’.
Also, you download a more general video player, such as VLC, because it has most of the common video codecs ‘built in’.
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Are you logged in?
See my post #16 in this thread.
Just insert Win10 instead of Win8.
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Green screens, when trying to play a video, usually indicate no appropriate video codec or an out-of-date video codec.
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I would send direct links, but that won’t narrow it down. Sometime the videos work fine, other times it’s green. Same videos. What i did find is if i shut down my laptob and reboot, the problem goes away. But then, it will start with the green screen again after awhile. It’s weird.
I can’t get sound on my You Tube videos from my laptop. Only on Firefox.
They play on Chrome and IE.
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