So, James visited… And his suggestion (update the video drivers) has fixed video playback on my machine. *ra*.
James, you are truely a god of Windows. This saves me upgrading, which was going to be ‘hastle’. Although I’ve still got a huge pause at the beginning of, particularly, MPEG4 videos. But hey.
It works. It doesn’t crash. I’ll try and remember that (I’d already done replacing codecs, replacing software, removing everything related to the thing that caused the problem, it just never occured that the video drivers might need updating; or that that might fix it).
Heh. All in a day’s work. You have to remember with Windows that it’s very keen on hardware acceleration. _Very_ keen. So when it gets a crappy driver, it’s a recipe for pain.