Help: Playing movie with new monitor?

[b182tm]

Hey guys. I got a LG L194WT 19" widescreen for my birthday, and I cant play movies on it. In Windows Media Player this message comes up when I try to play the movie: "WIndows Media Player cannot play DVD Video. You might need to adjust your Windows display settings. Open display settings in Control Panel, and then try lowering your screen resolution and color quality settings."
Is there some ideal resolution that movies are supposed to play at? Would a codec fix it? That sucks that you cant play movies with widescreens, any suggestions on how to fix it? It does this with any movie in any movie player.
Thanks,
Derek

 

[mrjack]

Have you tried using VLC?

 

[dark_legacy2006]

i didnt think there were any specific settings you needed for any monitors......

 

[mrjack]

There shouldn't be any.

And besides using a different media player have you checked to make sure you have the proper codecs?

 

[b182tm]

Yeah, I downloaded DivX. And what is VLC?

 

[mrjack]

VLC is a media player. In my oppinion it's much better than Windows Media Player.

 

[b182tm]

Yeah, that didnt work either. Anyone know the problem?

 

[b182tm]

Anyone? This is annoying, I cant watch movies on here....

 

[Motoxrdude]

Try changing the resolution back to 1280x1024 and see if you still get the same problem.

 

[heyman421]

install the actual driver for your monitor
install the newest drivers for your video card
install an actual decent mpeg-2 codec

make sure you're using the correct dvi cable

 

[b182tm]

I've tried all of that stuff...I installed DivX, the latest driver for the video card, the drivers that came with the monitor, I bought a DVI cable that i dont see why it wouldnt work, and i have tried all of the resolutions and color settings...No luck. wtf

 

[Redbull{wings}]

Try installing the sld codec pack it helped fix some playback issues I had.

 

[heyman421]

well, dvd's aren't divx, that could be the problem