Hi everyone, I have looked around and can't find the answer to my problem! I don't want to have to reinstall my OS, please help!
The problem is I can't open any movie files, avi or mpeg.. I've tried several different files, ones that I know worked fine in the past. I have bsplayer, avipreview, windows media player installed, they all respond the same - i click on open movie and it gets stuck on "opening" and sucks up all my resources, never an error message, it just looks like it's trying to open but nothing happens. Then I have to "end task" - DivX player works, I installed it yesterday.
I have tried to uninstall and reinstall both BSPlayer and WMP, I have tried other versions of these players - same thing.
I'm going to install PowerDVD today and see what happens. Seems like a new install might work, since the new install of DivX player worked.
I don't know what could've caused the problem. It has been a couple of weeks since I tried to play a movie and a lot has happened to this machine in that time, installed kaspersky anti-virus, took that out and installed mcafee, installed roxio, updated video card drivers, installed directx9.0c, installed the new xvid codec, installed windows media player 10, and also have microsoft automatic updates going all the time.. that's all i can think of for now. I've tried undo-ing all these changes but no luck.
Please help me think of anything I could try to fix this.
Thanks
The problem is I can't open any movie files, avi or mpeg.. I've tried several different files, ones that I know worked fine in the past. I have bsplayer, avipreview, windows media player installed, they all respond the same - i click on open movie and it gets stuck on "opening" and sucks up all my resources, never an error message, it just looks like it's trying to open but nothing happens. Then I have to "end task" - DivX player works, I installed it yesterday.
I have tried to uninstall and reinstall both BSPlayer and WMP, I have tried other versions of these players - same thing.
I'm going to install PowerDVD today and see what happens. Seems like a new install might work, since the new install of DivX player worked.
I don't know what could've caused the problem. It has been a couple of weeks since I tried to play a movie and a lot has happened to this machine in that time, installed kaspersky anti-virus, took that out and installed mcafee, installed roxio, updated video card drivers, installed directx9.0c, installed the new xvid codec, installed windows media player 10, and also have microsoft automatic updates going all the time.. that's all i can think of for now. I've tried undo-ing all these changes but no luck.
Please help me think of anything I could try to fix this.
Thanks