Green Static playback

Hi,

On top of all my other problems with this stupid computer, I have another.

I recently purchased a Casio Exilim S600 digital camera. When I uploaded the movies that I shot, I get playback problems. The audio is fine but the video is not. I get green static screen.

Attached is a screenshot. Funnily enough, when I was pressing the "Print Screen" for the screen shot, it returned a black screen unless I had the movie playing. So in the end, I had to take an actual photo of my monitor.

I am running Windows XP Professional on a P4 Intel 2.4Ghz system with Windows Media Player 10 and a NVIDIA GeForce2 MX/MX 400.

I want to watch my videos!
Any solutions or ideas on what the heck is going on here!?

Thanks very much!

Can you watch the videos fine on the camera ? How are you uploading the video to the computer ?

Also, what format are the videos being recorded in ? e.g. '.avi', '.mpeg' etc

It's avi format and yes, they work fine on my camera prior to uploading them on to my computer.

I haven't always had this problem... when I first got it, movies played back just fine but now somehow, it doesn't anymore!

Have you updated the drivers for your graphics card lately ?

Try running the video through Winamp to see if it works on that

I just found out using GSpot that...

M4S2 - Fully Compliant MPEG-4 v2 simple profile codec

... is not installed. Where can I get this from?

I've done a search but return all these websites that mention it but not able to download it...

Thanks.

I fixed it!!!

I did need the M4S2 codec and it was odd that WMP didn't automatically download it even though it's set to do so.

Go figure I suppose!

Thanks again.

Yeah, certianly strange, but thats WMP for you !