

I had absolutely the same problem here and managed to find a solution for it. One user delivers a hint, why some users are facing this issue. Must have been turned on with the last driver updates.Īlso in April and July 2016 some users are reporting this issue for Catalyst or Radeon Settings. Yep – solved my problem by going into Radeon settings and turning off demo mode. Fixed my problem.Īnother user suppose the mode has been set during driver update. Apparently, the "Demo" was on by default because I never changed any settings. I just upgraded my AMD drivers to this latest version and then noticed the problem. When I changed it to "Demo OFF", the red line disappeared. Up in the top, right, corner, sure enough, there is a setting for demo. I went into my AMD Radeon Settings app and selected the tab "Video". Obviously new ADM Radeon settings are enabling demo mode again. I thought, the case would have been solved – but recently I was alerted from MS Answers about new posts.

I have noticed that with Win7 after playing with the Catalyst settings in 'Avivio video ' you will see 'all settings ', then scroll all the way down and there will be a fieldset named 'video demo mode '.

Well, the root cause and a solution was presented by Kristoffe Brodeur: It's the video demo mode in Catalyst video driver settings. Fast forward, rewind and pause, the line remains. But once I push play the movie starts and the red line is there. When I originally open the player I have a blank black screen. But it does not appear until I actually push play. No matter what movie I play the line is there. I can us vlc and I do not get the red vertical line running down the screen. This happens with Windows media player and windows media player classic. I have a red line running vertically down the middle of the screen when playing movies with media player on windows 7. A vertical red line in Windows Media Player 12Ī user has reported this behavior for Windows 7 in 2010 within Microsoft Answers-Forum as follows: It's an old issue, I've described in June 2011 for Windows 7 within this German blog post.
