Desktop won't let me watch movies on itunes + 4od

[bigben]

Hi,

Basically every time I try to watch a movie on itunes or anything on 4od (doesn't happen on youtube though) I get a fuzzy screen covering the entire monitor I'm trying to watch on.


I remember before itunes was saying that it was because something isn't HDCP, however it is.



I've had this problem for a while and assumed it was just itunes being bad but tried 4od tonight. Since I first had the problem I've clean installed graphics card drivers among other things and nothing has worked.

Any help to try and sort this would be appreciated.

 

[vanthus]

Have you tried a clean install/update of Adobe flash player.

 

[bigben]

Hi, just tried that but unfortunately didn't work.
The video is definitely playing underneath the fuzz, it plays the sound and shows up when I mouse over the chrome icon at the bottom. also if I try to take it by surprise and switch it to the other monitor the fuzz follows the video.

 

[vanthus]

Might not help,but you could try disabling or enabling "hardware acceleration."
Right click on the video/settings/select bottom left icon/un-tick to disable.

 

[bigben]

Thanks, still not working though.

 

[Boozad]

Have you tried using a different browser mate?

 

[Androcles]

Have you tried using a different browser mate?

iTunes doesn't run in a browser, it's its own software.

As far as a i recall it uses Apple Quicktime to play videos, try downloading the latest version ( http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/ ) and see if that helps

 

[steaky360]

Are you connecting to the monitor with a HDMI cable? As far as I know DVI doesn't carry hdcp data, you must use HDMI.

 

[Androcles]

Also i'm not sure if you have the option on the PC version, but on the Mac version there was a similar issue and the work around was you could force it to run in 32bit mode through a right click otion on it's icon. Has the PC version got similar in its otions?

 

[bigben]

Are you connecting to the monitor with a HDMI cable? As far as I know DVI doesn't carry hdcp data, you must use HDMI.

No, I use dvi, that's probably it. How naff, hdmi is only capable of 60hz, shame they don't warn you that when you buy 120hz monitor.
Thanks for all suggestions guys. I'll try hdmi tonight and keep you updated.

Grimezy- if you're here can you watch 4od on yours?

 

[steaky360]

HDMI 1.4b was released on October 11, 2011.[152] One of the new features is that it adds support to 3D 1080p video at 120 Hz -allowing frame packing 3D format at 1080p60 per Eye (120 Hz total) .[153] All future versions of the HDMI specification will be made by the HDMI Forum that was created on October 25, 2011.[43][154]

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDMI

I think version 1.4b supports 120Hz (for 60FPS 3D)

 

[bigben]

Ooh thanks. I'll try the hdmi later and if it works I'll get an hdmi 1.4

 

[steaky360]

Ooh thanks. I'll try the hdmi later and if it works I'll get an hdmi 1.4

The monitor/TV needs to support 1.4b too... check the manual, it should tell you what version it supports

 

[bigben]

I'll give it a go anyway, pretty cheap and it's always useful to have a spare HDMI cable. http://www.amazon.co.uk/AmazonBasic...6&sr=8-2&keywords=hdmi+1.4#productDescription
HDMI with ethernet sounds interesting.

 

[bigben]

Just to confirm, with HDMI it all works. Thanks everybody who suggested anything.