Video That Uses Indeo3 Codec May Become Inverted When Moved Between Primary and Secondary Display

When you use Windows Media Player to view an Audio-Video Interleaved file (.avi) that uses the Indeo3 codec, the video may become inverted if you turn on the extended desktop and if the video has been moved back and forth between the primary and secondary displays.

This problem has been seen only with media that is encoded with the Indeo3 codec.

NOTE: this behavior is not specific to Windows Media Player (other players have also exhibited this behavior).

This problem has been seen to occur only when all the following conditions are true:

• The AVI that you are viewing uses the Indeo3 codec for compression.
• The secondary display has a higher color depth setting than the primary display (for example, primary is 16-bit color depth; secondary is 32-bit color depth).
• You turn on the extended desktop feature.
• You drag the video between the primary and secondary display several times.

To resolve this behavior, set the color depth of your primary monitor to the same or greater color depth as that of the secondary monitor.

Microsoft is researching this problem and will post more information in this article when the information becomes available.