Playing video files nightmare!

[TheGift_31]

Hi,

Please bear with me as i'm new to P2P!

I have just downloaded some .wmv files and i can't seem to play them? (I just get a blank screen in windows media player with a thin white vertical line going through the screen that should be playing the file? I can view .avi files and .mpg files. I have the Ace Mega CoDeCs pack so therefor there should be no problem. But i still can't view any of them. I am running XP Pro if that helps?

Any help would be gratefully received as i have been trying to figure this one out for 2 days now!!

Thank you in advance.

[DigitalJunkie]

Windows Media Player should be able to play wmv files, may be you should use Windows Media Player to update the codecs for you!

[TheGift_31]

I did this 3 hours ago as i thought it might be that but it still wont do it?

[DigitalJunkie]

Do you also have ffdShow installed?

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow

[crackerjacker]

um go download gspot and see if the file is really a true wmv file.
google gspot and you can download it

[TheGift_31]

I have now downloaded ffdShow and have also downloaded aload more .wmv just to check that the original file i wanted to open wasn't a fake. Basically none of my media players will play these types of file.

This was never a problem on my old p.c. The only main difference is that i am now running XP Pro.

[streamlina]

Watcha Talkin Bout Willis!!!!!!!!!

[DigitalJunkie]

What's your Windows Media Player version?

[CRLocky]

where'd you get these files? what genre are the of? because depending on where you got them, they could just be corrupt or unreadable, or maybe all they are reduced to are..... that white line :O

[wonderboy2005]

I think you should download VLC. Its a free, open source media player that includes all the codecs it needs already, so you dont have to worry about codec packs or ffdshadow, etc. it just plain works. If the file doesnt play under VLC, then it probably wont play at all.

link: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-windows.html

[menace140183]

try downloading winamp its a better player than windows media.
www.winamp.com

[The Hunter]

VideoLan is nice little player that will play dam near anything without messing with codecs.
http://www.videolan.org/

[TheBlackSnow]

my advice is: get win media player 9, get the most new divx version and some codecs... you will find all them at www.free-codecs.com this is web, which contains everything to play the files: audio/video codecs... many players. it's my favourite for such tools.

[Matt865]

I'd go with wonderboy & Hunter on this. VLC is easier than installing lots of individual codecs.

[TheBlackSnow]

well vlc doesnt work for me properly... it needs a lot of resources

[MushroomheadXIII]

Winamp is not better than windows media, it relies on codecs just as much as windows media does. Windows media is actually more stable. Now whenevr i open a file in winamp it crashes. Videolan is what i use if the files don't playback. But sometimes, videolan blows in the playback and windows media just plays videos better.

[Matt865]

well vlc doesnt work for me properly... it needs a lot of resources

True... I just tested it playing back a 2gig XviD file; it used just under 50MB of RAM. Never really noticed that before.

[Ne007]

If it were me...I'd get rid of the codec packs you installed.......update to wmp 10 and then install klite codec pack.


hmmmm......how handicapped is your computer?

[DwarfBaby]

If it were me...I'd get rid of the codec packs you installed.......update to wmp 10 and then install klite codec pack.

Ditto,
maybe 9.0 but ditto none the less.