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theduke October 3rd, 2007 12:41 AM

Windows Media Player stops playing
 
everytime i play any type of of clip it will play for a couple seconds then the video will turn black, but it will remain with the audio...


i deleted and installed the new WMP 11 but it did the same thing


any help?

Remoc October 3rd, 2007 03:17 AM

It's probably a codec issue. My suggestion woukd be to Dump WMP and try VLC Media Player. See Last Link.

See Links below.

For XP this codec pac is very good
Download XP Codec Pack 2.0.8 - XP Codec Pack is one of the most complete codec pack

Or for Vista this pac
Vista Codec Package v4.4.7 Beta 4a (freeware)

You can also install the VLC media player, it has all the codecs pre-installed and can play just about all files...
VLC media player - Overview.

theduke October 3rd, 2007 01:52 PM

i have VLC, but the thing is....

when i play the videos that dont work in WMP then in VLC i have trouble with it as well..

it will play for a second then it plays really fast with the picture frozen...

its weird...

wondering why October 3rd, 2007 01:55 PM

Are you by any chance doing this at work ??

theduke October 3rd, 2007 02:40 PM

nope....not at work...

wondering why October 4th, 2007 02:55 AM

Usually the VLC player will play anything and if it doesn't it usually means there is something wrong with the file...

The reason I asked if you where at work was some places have special security that can cause this type of thing to happen...

What is the file's format..ie. AVI etc...

Peerless October 4th, 2007 03:57 AM

you don't mention any specs, but I've seen this problem on older computers and its caused by 2 factors....the slower cpus have a noticeable effect..and remember this, when you download a file it is spread all over your drive (i.e. its very fragmented)...this means your HDD is constantly searching all over the place for the next bit of data...

and of course its quite possible that its a bogus file...

Lord of the Rings October 4th, 2007 05:52 AM

One other player you can try for such files is MPlayer - The Movie Player but I think you also need to download the extra support library. It is very similar to VLC in abilities but there are some things each can do the other either can't do or does a little better.

theduke October 4th, 2007 08:52 AM

alright thank you guys...

and yea....this is one of my old comps..... haha


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