WB5 and movie viewers

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Hi,
Afrer upgrading to WB5 (and trying out Aura skin) both my preferred movie viewers, VLC (both 0.8.2 and 0.8.4) and Cyberlink PowerDVD became unable to play videos, apparently due to problems creating a video port. VLC reproduces audio but with a grey screen, and PowerDVD hung trying to open the video file or the DVD.
If I unload WB5, both programs work correctly again.
I've looked in the forum but I haven't found others with the same problem, so I tried the public version of WB5 on an other machine at work (totally different hardware and configuration) with the same behaviour.
Any hints about a workaround?
Thanks a lot...
windowblinds
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

Hi,


I am also having the similar problem. After installing WB 5 refresher beta, I am getting flickering of red and blue stripes across the video on windows media player as well as media player classic.  I did not have this problem before and everything used to work just as perfect except occassional explorer.exe crasshes.


Please solve this problem.


Thanks


 

Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top

If you are using a per pixel skin you will need to disable overlays in those apps.  It seems there is an OS bug with those & anything per pixel on screen.

balen79: are you saying you didn't have issues with the release version, just with the refresher beta?

Elemental: Reforged
Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
Yes, I did not have those issues with the release version. Only after installing refresh beta that I ran into those problems. I unistalled the refresh beta and everything came to normal.
Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top
Doesn't sound like an OS issue to me... more like a WB issue.
Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top

JRSCCivic98: These forums are for constructive feedback & support.  Your post is not only wrong, but inappropriate.

If you have anything per pixel on screen the overlay support in a number of apps breaks.  For some reason this is not something that happens with Windows Media Player itself (at least here) which suggests the problem is how the media players init their overlays.

We are looking into ways of avoiding this, but WindowBlinds is NOT the problem, it merely exposes the problem.

Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I ran into some sort of overlay problem some time ago when I tried to view DVD movies. Turns out that MPC works well (when using the correct video output) but PowerDVD doesn't. I have tried to see if there's a setting in MPC to reproduce the problem but was unsuccessful. I had a momentary workaround before but that was just for the moment. So it's not likely to be a permanent workaround or a good fix.

I dunno how effective MPC is when it comes to DVD playback. But I'll have to eventually take a look and see if that'll work.