Comp wont play videos?

[Midgetmax]

I recently tryed to play a video that i had downloaded on my computer a while ago in winamp. when i opened it up, winamp came up, but no video screen, so i manually clicked the video button, and it was black. i tryed pressing play and it did nothing. so i tryed opening a different video and same thing happened. i then tryed opening a video in windows media, and an error popped up forcing me to close wmp. im pretty fluent with compuers so i ran spyware and virus scans, and they came up with nothing, and i have no idea why my computer wont play any video i through at it. and help? im running winXP home, Radeon X1300, 1gig RAM, 2.2 Ghz Athalon XP 3200.

 

[Surkitz]

you may need to see if your videos are in a proper format for playing. find a video and right click and see what type it shows. for example is it avi, mp3, mp4, divx etc, or in your case, wma - windows media file format.

 

[Stick'o ram]

Try VLC i have had good luck with this program it can play almost anything.

 

[Midgetmax]

its not the format of them, i have checked that. most of these videos i am trying to play i have played before.winamp does not do anything when i press play. i am going to try the new player that u suggested though, and i will get back to you on how that goes. thanks for the suggestions guys, im open to try anything at this point.

 

[Midgetmax]

hmm, well i was surprised to see that VLC worked. weird that it still wont play on winamp and WMP...

 

[LuckyM]

VLC is universal i still find it strange that you could view those videos with winamp/wmp before. maybe you've downloaded some updates of these programs? all i can think of is that maybe you've change files associations. in this case you can go to options->preferences on winamp and check the 'file types' section.

 

[Stick'o ram]

You could also try and download Xvid, most newer video files are using mp4's and maybe the codecs where just removed or corrupted.