Tænk at det skulle ske... en UNIX nørd som mig! Anyway, her er mit første Windows fix. Tyvstjålet fra de flinke folk på Indernettet.
Det startede med at jeg mente Windows skulle bruges til at se en DVD på - laptop'en er noget nemmere at tage med i seng end 28-tommeren fra stuen. Da det fejlede fandt jeg ud af denne løsning. Her på engelsk for vores udenlandske venners convenience...
When viewing a DVD the following errors occured:
In WinDVD - "Create overlay failed. Please lower your screen resolution or color depth and try again"
In Windows Media Player - no picture but plenty of sound.
I had viewed DVD's before without any problems thus it must be fixable.
Before the solution was discovered I also checked
1) DirectX (run dxdiag) if DirectDraw was enabled - found it was greyed out!
2) Updated display drivers
3) Lowered screen resolution and color depth (this was the initial proposed solution)
but nothing worked.
I found the following helped:
Stopping/disabling the Windows NetMeeting service (NetMeeting Remote Desktop Sharing/mnmsrvc.exe) then restarting the movie. All is now well.
Then I remembered that HelpDesk had used NetMeeting earlier that month and thus introduced the problem.
