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Comment author: CronoDAS 30 August 2013 12:03:10AM 0 points [-]

The problem has persisted through several video card driver updates. :(

Comment author: scotherns 30 August 2013 07:44:35AM 0 points [-]

Does it do this regardless of the software playing the video e.g. YouTube and VLC or WMP or XMBC or whatever you use to play your videos?

Comment author: CronoDAS 30 August 2013 08:13:20AM *  0 points [-]

It happens on Youtube and in Windows Media Player. Quicktime, oddly enough, isn't playing any videos at all; I never actually used it for anything before. (This may be a codec issue. I'll fiddle and see if I can get it to work.)

Update: Apparently, Quicktime for Windows is incompatible with Divx/Xvid codecs, which is why I can't play my .avi files in the Quicktime Player. There is a codec called "3ivx" that is supposed to work, but the creators charge for it.

Comment author: scotherns 03 September 2013 11:56:58AM 0 points [-]

For YouTube, try right clicking, choose 'Settings...' and uncheck 'Enable hardware acceleration'. Any change?

Comment author: CronoDAS 03 September 2013 11:28:50PM 1 point [-]

I finally found a fix.

Comment author: CronoDAS 03 September 2013 11:20:16PM *  0 points [-]

Yes. That gets rid of the black screen. Which means my video card is doing something funny when switching modes.

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