I'm kind of stumped here. The other day I wasn't able to play video files at all. I haven't done anything out of the ordinary and scanned my computer with AVG and everything is on the up. I tried to open the files with windows media player and GOM player and only get audio. However, when I open the video files with Windows Media Center, they work! I downloaded XP Codec pack and still no progress. I prefer Windows Media Player and GOM over Windows Media Center but I'm sticking to what works right now. Does anybody have any suggestions or ideas? I Have Windows Vista. Thanks in advance.
Only audio, no video when I try to play .wmv or .mov files
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The XP Codec I downloaded had windows media player classic. That also yielded the same results, no video. Actually, the more I think about it the problem arose after I downloaded updates for Vista. I'm not sure exactly, but I'm pretty sure this problem occured after the updates. It's just really odd to me that I have no problems playing videos in Windows Media Center but not in Windows Media Player, GOM Player, or Windows Media Player Classic. Does anyone know why this would occur ?
As for K-lite,didn't worked for me either. Instead I use- Vista codec package(by Shark 007,found on google.com). Don't know about GOM player,but it's really interesting why you installed xp kodecs on Vista. Vista is a little more complicated and needs smth else than xp. About updates- Since I got my Vista Ultimate,I turned all updates off,coz it's just a trash for me. If your vista have Sp1(and u must have it),you don't need anything else. If there will be anything for Vista,microsoft will realease sp2
Widows Media Player->Sync->options->player->updates. Try updating your WMP if all those codeks don't work. What kind of media files are you opening? some kind of MKV. files or .ogg? This case of yours is very interesting,coz by default WMP have support for wma,mp3,avi,divX,dvd e.t.c ... only ones who aren't supported ar those .mkv and .ogg files. Some of Blue-ray codeks are missing to... still...
Well then... maybe the problem is inside WMP itself. However- It's impossible to reinstall Vista WMP 11 because,it's integrated into OS shell,and replacing it would mean whole OS reinstall.
In some cases, it may be possible to fix the problem, not by reinstalling it, but by fixing whatever glitch has occurred. Sometimes this error is related to the security settings as they relate to WMP11. As a result, signing into Vista as a administrator may fix the problem. Other options include running a specific Vista patch. By clicking on the Window's button and selecting the run option and then typing "regsvr32 wmp.dll," you can run this program. It may be able to fix the problem with WMP11. This is all I can tell mate,coz- If you have kodecs,they simply must work...
In some cases, it may be possible to fix the problem, not by reinstalling it, but by fixing whatever glitch has occurred. Sometimes this error is related to the security settings as they relate to WMP11. As a result, signing into Vista as a administrator may fix the problem. Other options include running a specific Vista patch. By clicking on the Window's button and selecting the run option and then typing "regsvr32 wmp.dll," you can run this program. It may be able to fix the problem with WMP11. This is all I can tell mate,coz- If you have kodecs,they simply must work...
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