Black screen on some channels
Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2018 12:32 am
Hi,
I'm a newbie to these forums and hope someone out there knows a bit more than I do!
For ref., I am in Perth, Western Australia. Since the latest April, etc. updates to W10, I've had lots of issues generally which I seem to have resolved to a point where WMC runs stably on my PC. The one exception is that occasionally, when I switch channels I get a black screen... the sound plays for a few seconds and then cuts out... everything appears like the channel is playing (if I move the mouse, the time bar appears and counts the time normally), just no picture shows on the screen. Things I've tried:
- If I change channels up and down a few times I can get the channel to play.
- Changing tuner cards - made no difference even when I swapped to a totally different manufacturer's card.
The issue also affects some recordings.... they appear in my thumbnail list but then when I try to play I get a black screen with (usually) just a few seconds of audio at the beginning before cutting out. Weirdly, I can play these .wtv files perfectly in Windows Media Player but not in WMC.
Any ideas would be much appreciated. I've seen some posts that seem to point at the graphics card - I've got an NVidia Geforce GT520 in there currently.
Thanks in advance for any and all advice,
Keith.
I'm a newbie to these forums and hope someone out there knows a bit more than I do!
For ref., I am in Perth, Western Australia. Since the latest April, etc. updates to W10, I've had lots of issues generally which I seem to have resolved to a point where WMC runs stably on my PC. The one exception is that occasionally, when I switch channels I get a black screen... the sound plays for a few seconds and then cuts out... everything appears like the channel is playing (if I move the mouse, the time bar appears and counts the time normally), just no picture shows on the screen. Things I've tried:
- If I change channels up and down a few times I can get the channel to play.
- Changing tuner cards - made no difference even when I swapped to a totally different manufacturer's card.
The issue also affects some recordings.... they appear in my thumbnail list but then when I try to play I get a black screen with (usually) just a few seconds of audio at the beginning before cutting out. Weirdly, I can play these .wtv files perfectly in Windows Media Player but not in WMC.
Any ideas would be much appreciated. I've seen some posts that seem to point at the graphics card - I've got an NVidia Geforce GT520 in there currently.
Thanks in advance for any and all advice,
Keith.