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re: Monitor Flickers When Opening and Closing Video Files
Monday, May 5, 2008 at 1:00 pm
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Posted by Ari (1138 messages posted)


Try:
Changing screen resolution
Changing screen refresh rate






On Monday, May 5, 2008 at 12:11 am, Thibaultyna wrote:
>My monitor flickers once when I play video (avi, etc) files with any video software.
> I'm running an AMD 2.4GHz dualcore system with 2GB of RAM and a 512 MB Radeon X1650
>with the latest directX drivers installed. Running all this on Windows XP SP2 with
>latest updates.
>This even continued occuring after I formated/reinstalled Windows XP. The software
>I primarily use for video playback is Media Player Classic (MPC). I installed the
>bare minimum (default, essentials) for Playback Only. Whenever I open a video file,
>the monitor will flicker once or twice before it begins to play the video file.
>It also flickers once when I close the program. The issue mainly seems to occur
>in divx/xvid files in avi format, but it also occurs with mpg format. The problem
>does not occur with mov files played in either Quicktime Pro or MPC. The monitor
>will also flicker when I open a folder with video file thumbnails.
>I hope this information was sufficient to help me out. Thank you.



Written in response to:
Monitor Flickers When Opening and Closing Video Files (Thibaultyna: Monday, May 5, 2008 at 12:11 am)

Responses to this message:
*re: Monitor Flickers When Opening and Closing Video Files (Thibaultyna: Tuesday, May 6, 2008 at 12:12 pm)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-Monitor Flickers When Opening and Closing Video Files (Thibaultyna: Mon, May 5, 2008, 12:11 am)
-re: Monitor Flickers When Opening and Closing Video Files (Ari: Mon, May 5, 2008, 1:00 pm)
-re: Monitor Flickers When Opening and Closing Video Files (Thibaultyna: Tue, May 6, 2008, 12:12 pm)
*re: Monitor Flickers When Opening and Closing Video Files (Ari: Tue, May 6, 2008, 5:03 pm)
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