Please Help...

[dave52]

greetings...somewhere in the past week i've picked up an overlay when i play a vcd, a svcd or some mpgs on my computer...it's a tic-tac-toe design about an inch or so square, made up of three smaller squares across-three squares down--nine squares total with a black upper right hand square...it flutters like a butterfly all over the screen on top of what i am playing...it appears when i use the ati player or the windows media player(i'm using windows xp...if i burn to a cd and play in a stand alone dvd player it's not there...i like to play somethings on the computer and not burn them to cd so i would really like to know what this is...has anyone encountered this before???...any help would be appreciated...thank you...dAVE

[TelemachusMH]

Sounds like you've installed a program that came with a annoying directshow filter. Have you installed a dvd player recently, or a program that works with mpeg files and plays them?

You might want to download graphedit, and open the video in there. Then you can swap out different filters and find out which one it is. If it is a directshow filter, then you can lookup where the file for it is and type "regsvr32 /u [Filter file]" into a dos prompt to get rid of it.

TelemachusMH

PS Just for reference in the future use a more discriptive title for your post.

[dave52]

my apologies for such a vague title, was in the midst of a brainfart...thank you very much for the reply...i've been told and verified that it's the nag filter(lack of better words)for Elecard's mpeg-2...when i uninstalled it went away, BUT then the files that needed it also went away...i guess my next question is: can i get a mpeg-2 codec(?)that doesn't require Elcard's propriatory little nag and also not paying their $20.00 fee...i know i'm cheap, but iwtbf...thank you again for the reply...dAVE

[TelemachusMH]

There is a download on this site "Fraunhofer video and audio codecs" under the filters section. That should do what you want. ;-)

TelemachusMH