DVD/Any Video is toooo bright that its almost Invisible!!

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Try lowering the hardware acceleration.
Desktop->rtclick->Properties->Settings->Advanced->Troubleshoot

and/or

Media player->Tools->Options->Performance->hardware Acceleration

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"Haroon" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:033701c48ed5$6c93a490$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> Hi there... I'm having a major problem with my laptop
> when i play DVD or DivX videos or rather anyyy video in
> my media or any other player!.. Now the problem is the
> video is toooo bright to be seen! its all white!.. as if
> there's a direct sunlight on the video and i dunno how it
> happened!...
>
> It used to work perfect before... is it cuz of SP2? I
> have a fujitsu Siemens 2G P4 Mobile processor with a S3
> ProSavage DDR 16MB graphics card builtin... DirectX 9.0c,
> SP2 is installed too!
>
> I got even more confused when already a movie trailer was
> playing on Windows Media player(again too bright to be
> seen) and when i tried playing another trailer from
> another source on the internet, the movie waz perfect!...
> windows media player waz used in both situations... i.e.
> The video on the first media player window waz too
> brightttt and almost invisible and the video on the media
> player launched by a website waz perfectly fine!!!.. How
> is that??
>
> I also tried upgrading the drivers for the graphics card
> but still the same problem...
>
> my direct email is haroon@clubimate.com. Pleaseee help me
> with any suggestions. I'll really appreciate yer help.
> Thanks a billion!
>
> cheers...