Why does an internet video player show solid bright colors like an old scrambled cable TV channel?

Dec 19, 2007 by Socal Bong | Posted in Other - Internet

I have a new team and some (not all) video players, comes with brightly colored blocks like watching a scrambled cable channel 15 years ago. Do I need to install something like Flash? or something else?

This only happens to come with video players, not all, YouTube is working well, for example. The audio works well for that matter.

I''m experiencing this exact problem too, but unfortunately have yet to find out what's happening. I watch videos on YouTube, Google Video, etc. .. But when it comes to seeing other types of videos integrated browser, appear scrambled.

I'm using IE 7 (although the same problem was happening before with IE6), and I installed Media Player 9. At one point, I have updated to Media Player 10, but was not impressed with their functionality, so it turned back to version 9.

I wonder if this is a filter of some sort that involuntarily activated (I doubt it, but who knows), because when I try to play one of these videos encoded behind any other open window (eg a new browser window or MS Word, etc) scrambled colors still appear superimposed in the upper window (I hope that makes sense).

Anyone have any ideas? I work in tech support, so I'm not totally stupid when it comes to these things, but I must say this has me perplexed.

Thanks!