OT: Windows Media Player

Peewiglet

21/01/2007 at 15:42

Can anyone please tell me what stupid thing I'm doing wrong? I've been using Media Player to watch some video files (.avi) and all was well. I then used Media Player to listen to some MP3s, and those visualisation thingies came up on the screen. The problem is, though, that now when I try to watch the video files again I can no longer see the picture: the player is defaulting to the swirly visualisation things. I can hear the sound, but there's no proper picture. I've tried playing with settings, but I've got nowhere. I'm sure it must be a simple setting somewhere. It's not just one .avi, btw: this is now happening with every .avi I try to watch.

Any ideas? I'll be eternally grateful for any help.

Gordy

21/01/2007 at 15:52

Have you tried right-clicking and selecting "No Visualisation" ?

HTH.

* Diddi * Im on Mars btw !!!

21/01/2007 at 16:05

If that what mad jim says fails just un-install media player and install again.

Peewiglet

21/01/2007 at 16:24

Thanks, Gordy :) (I think that brings my tab to at least the second bottle of something nice and malty now!)

It didn't work, though :( Further investigations have revealed that some .avi files do play, and others don't. Sob.

Thanks, diddy. It may yet come to that :(

Peewiglet

21/01/2007 at 16:27

Hmmm... is there another d/loadable prog' available for playing video files? Perhaps I'll try that.

Weird Darren

21/01/2007 at 16:30

PW is your media player complaining that it can't find the correct codec to play the avi?
If so it just requires getting the correct codec for the files you are trying to play.

Not all avi files are the same!

* Diddi * Im on Mars btw !!!

21/01/2007 at 16:31

If your running windows media player 10 upgrade it to 11 and that should fix the prob..(but you have to be running an original copy of windows..)

Peewiglet

21/01/2007 at 16:36

Hello WD :)

It doesn't say it can't find the codec, but in the bottom left corner it says "Acquiring codec" and then "Codec acquired". At that stage it begins to play, but only the sound. It was playing these files perfectly yesterday. It may be a coincidence, but the only thing that seems to have changed is that I played some MP3s in between playing the files y/day and playing them now.

diddy - it is version 11.

Any other programmes, peeps?

* Diddi * Im on Mars btw !!!

21/01/2007 at 16:55

Restart your pc ...sometimes things just dont operate how they should and a restart solves this,
sometimes my dvd drive dont show but restart sorts it...
only another idea !!

* Diddi * Im on Mars btw !!!

21/01/2007 at 16:57

http://www.divx.com/divx/windows/download/?tiger_aff=s_download_avi_player&gclid=CNjU7ZP98YkCFTVYQgodKDfFKQ

have a look at this!!

Peewiglet

21/01/2007 at 16:59

Ooh, thanks, diddy! D/loading now :)

I tried a reboot when it first happened, thanks, but no joy. Fingers crossed for the new proggy, though :) I'll let you know how I get on.

x

Peewiglet

21/01/2007 at 17:05

It's working!

*breaks through computer screen, grabs diddy and dances him around the forum*

Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you :)

*settles back again to drool happily over Hugh Laurie*

* Diddi * Im on Mars btw !!!

21/01/2007 at 17:18

So glad it worked for you ...
ENJOY....
how good am i lol...

john hee (www.walkaboutintheuk.co.uk)

21/01/2007 at 17:27

failing that try installing winamp as well - its a freebie and handles the same stuff as media player, but sometimes will work where media doesn't, and vice versa

n/a

21/01/2007 at 18:22

Looks like I found this thread a bit late, PW, but I would still recommend Irfanview - I've yet to find any format of sound, photo or video that it can't cope with, so long as you install the full codec pack. http://www.irfanview.com/

Robs

21/01/2007 at 21:06

Holy moly. I've entered too late too so it seems, but I can educate you as to what was going on so you know how to solve it if it happens again.

The reason your files didn't play is because you didn't have the correct codec installed on your computer. A codec is used to tell the player (in your case, Windows Media Player) how to play the movie. Think of it as a set of rules if you like.

And the reason some avi files played and some didn't is because avi files are encoded with all sorts of codecs. In your case you simply didn't have the codecs installed for the avi files that didn't play.

When you went off and downloaded the DivX player that diddy gave you a link to, the actual DivX player won't have done anything for you - it's just another player and would have exactly the same problems as Windows Media Player had. However, with that download came the codec that you needed for your movie to play (the DivX codec).

If it happens again, no amount of uninstalling WMP, installing other programs etc etc is going to help. You need to install other codecs to get the movie to play.

Graham

21/01/2007 at 22:37

There’s a few different codec packs you can download I use the mega K-Lite pack, it’s a bit on the big side but you shouldn’t have any codec problems again

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