Playing video files nightmare!

**TheGift_31** · October 1st, 2004, 03:47 PM

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** · October 1st, 2004, 04:09 PM

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** · October 1st, 2004, 04:22 PM

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

**DigitalJunkie** · October 1st, 2004, 04:32 PM

Do you also have ffdShow installed?

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow

**crackerjacker** · October 1st, 2004, 05:04 PM

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

**TheGift_31** · October 1st, 2004, 05:59 PM

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** · October 1st, 2004, 08:47 PM

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

**DigitalJunkie** · October 1st, 2004, 09:07 PM

What's your Windows Media Player version?

**CRLocky** · October 1st, 2004, 09:27 PM

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** · October 1st, 2004, 10:07 PM

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** · October 2nd, 2004, 05:26 AM

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

**The Hunter** · October 2nd, 2004, 05:39 AM

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

**TheBlackSnow** · October 2nd, 2004, 01:18 PM

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.