To preview a file there must be a certain % already downlded. It will ONLY preview the amount that's downlded. eg: a full movie of 2 hours which is 700 MB in size. If you have downloaded 2% then you could only preview 2 mins of that movie. If you haven't downlded any of that movie then you can't preview it. Instead of preview, try launch instead with a movie you already have in your shared folders (if you have any.)

No program works within LW. What happens is that when you launch or preview a file LW will open the appropriate default player. eg: music & your default player is iTunes. Then when you launch or preview an mp3 then iTunes will open & play it. Likewise for video. Say you launch an mpeg movie then VLC (if it's the default) will open & play that movie.

You don't use LW to make a default video player b/c LW's media player cannot play video files. It can only play music. But because it's sometimes unreliable people often disable it thru options so their default audio player plays instead. For video it's always your default video player that will open everytime you preview or launch a movie file.

I am trying to preview files that have upto 90% downloaded.
This is not the problem, no matter what player i make as default, it will not work.
Have you had any other problems like this?

What Windows version are you using?

What type of computer and CPU do you have?

Win XP Pro
AMD Athlon XP 2400+
768 ram

Follow the instructions in this link. http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...threadid=34317

I've already done all that, but still cant get it to work from within LW

Well my best guess is that you have a bad file. What type of file are you trying to play. ie. avi, mpg, wmv, asf,

Doing what you told me in the link, i can preview all the files, but it won't work within LW, when i press the preview button in Search nothing happens.
Ive already reinstalled LW to see if that is the problem
Anyway, atleast i can see what i am downloading from the way you explained

Okay that is good, at least you can see what you have.

Not sure what the problem is. I just d/led an avi file. It previewed okay while it was d/ling from the d/l window.

Getting back to my previous post, I suspect you're trying to preview files you haven't downloaded enough of to be able to preview. That's why I suggested you experiment with the Launch button from the library window on a file you have already finished downlding. If that works then it's probably the 1st reason.

You keep saying within LW, remember it's not LW that actually plays the movie. It is only launched thru LW & it's the video program that actually plays it. Perhaps the video program is hidden behind LW b/c you keep clicking on LW. It can take several seconds for the video program to open & then load the movie.