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Originally Posted by jrandeck

I'm having an unusual problem lately...

Many of the podcasts I download have their colors messed up. The screen comes up predominantly green with very little detail. It's almost like a negative image except that everything is washed out in neon green. It looks like a music video from the 70's

Any idea what might cause that? It happens most frequently on "Cranky Geeks" which is a DivX file I think, but it's also happened with the Tekzilla WMV version.

I'm thinking it might be a codec issue on my end? but then why does it happen only with certain files?

First off crankky geeks does not have a divix file, it does have a WMV file I am going to assume this is the format you are using

You issue isn't a problem with BTV Podcather it is a problem with BTV playing that file you can confimr this by downloading the file in a web browsoer and seeing if it plays the same. Along time ago I had a similar problem playing WMV files in BTV (execpt they were all green) and I fixed it by updating my graphics card driver. That is where I would start make sure you are running the current driver from nvidia or ati. If that does not work double check to see if the files play ok in windows media player (I think they should play fine here but if they do not)
then try playing another WMV file in BTV that you created from BTV by doing a showsqueeze and see if it it only external wmv.

I would also try changing you you video renderer setting (the one that has overlay and 3d accelerated)
I would also try diffrent mpeg-2 decoders and see if that helps

A workaround to you prblem whould be using the h.264 feed for cranky geeks and ether the h.265 (but not the HD one) or Xvid feed (need to install the xvid codec on your playback machine but will play fine in BTV after you do that) for Tekzilla

Again my guess is if you update you graphic card drivers (especially if you or on a nvidia driver from about a year ago) that that might fix the issue