How to get rid of green screen from Netflix movie player
28 July 2007Getting a green screen while trying to watch movies online from Netflix? This happens even if you have latest video drivers and you have all the latest update? Tried rebooting and still get the green screen?
Then, heres how you can get rid of it.
- Click on
Start->Runand typedxdiag(DirectX diagnostic tool). - Click on the
Displaytab and then DISABLEDirectDraw Acceleration.
If it still doesn’t work, then you might have to change your firewall settings (disabling http proxy seems to work).
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19 Responses to “How to get rid of green screen from Netflix movie player”
August 14th, 2007 at 12:44 am
I don’t know what I just did or why it worked, but I followed your directions and it works now. Thanks so much for posting that!
August 18th, 2007 at 4:12 pm
It works great for Netflix, but now PowerDVD doesnt work. Everytime I want to watch a dvd, I have to undo the above.
August 19th, 2007 at 9:27 pm
you are a miracle worker. thank you so much!
September 11th, 2007 at 11:54 pm
Wow - this actually worked. Thanks for saving me a great deal of time.
Can you possible tell us some of the general impacts to the system when disabling this feature?
Regards!
Melanie
September 12th, 2007 at 12:03 am
Melanie,
I am not an expert, especially when it comes to video acceleration. That said, one of the things disabling DirectDraw Acceleration impacts is 3D games. I imagine anything that needs 3d rendering, such as autocad, might get affected.
Also, one of the comments above says PowerDVD doesn’t work. I use windvd and don’t have any problems with it.
October 29th, 2007 at 12:58 am
This is great! Thanks friend.
December 5th, 2007 at 2:30 am
Actually worked….unbelievable drivers that are out these days. Way to go Silverlight.
December 15th, 2007 at 3:42 am
hey…
ur my hero…..!!
January 5th, 2008 at 10:03 pm
Thank you!! If I had only found you 2 hours ago it would have saved me a lot of frustration.
January 8th, 2008 at 9:30 pm
Thank you sooo much! I have wasted HOURS on this problem and your suggestion solved it in one minute!
January 13th, 2008 at 1:56 am
I’m agreement with all! Thank you so much! I can now watch after 2 hours of messing around. Now I need to figure out why I don’t have any control over the screen — pausing, stopping, etc. - just white blocks where I’m assuming these controls are supposed to be.
February 18th, 2008 at 6:52 am
Thankn you soooooo much for your suggestion!! It Worked!!!
I do have one question, which features are adversely affected by disabling the “directdraw acceleration”?
March 9th, 2008 at 1:05 pm
Super!!!! It worked!!!
April 16th, 2008 at 2:52 pm
Just tried it and it fixed the problem… you would think that Netflix would have this advice somewhere easily accessible on their site. Oh well, who can say that big companies really make sense.
Troy
May 9th, 2008 at 9:13 am
Thanks!!!!!!!I was going crazy trying to figure out how to fix this problem……
May 28th, 2008 at 12:25 am
Yet another satisfied Googler here! Thanks for posting this! I’d given up trying to fix this and had almost resorted to calling Netflix!
May 31st, 2008 at 5:42 am
Thanks for yielding accurate configuration characteristics on untested and critical video playback states. Netflix was no help, but your post certainly was. Cheers.
June 15th, 2008 at 2:20 pm
Thanks for the tip it worked.I’ve been trying to find a way to get rid of the green screen on Netflix movie viewer for a few weeks.
July 3rd, 2008 at 6:53 pm
Thank you for this tip! I was looking everywhere for a solution