Windows Media Player won't play videos

[curiousminds]

Hello all, My windows media up till now has played all my videos. Now it
won't play certain ones that it did before. I have xpsp2 with wmp 11. It
gives no error message or code for the reason. Just says windows has
encountered a problem and needs to close. Have most of the regularly used
codecs etc, still won't play. Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

 

[John Inzer]

Hello all, My windows media up till now has played all my videos.
Now it won't play certain ones that it did before. I have xpsp2 with
wmp 11. It gives no error message or code for the reason. Just says
windows has encountered a problem and needs to close. Have most of
the regularly used codecs etc, still won't play. Any help is
appreciated. Thanks.

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First...try the following...open WMP and go to...
Tools / Options / File Types tab / Select All / Apply / OK.

The reason I suggest this is because my WMP recently
quit playing .MPEG files and this simple adjustment was
the fix.

Good luck...

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J. Inzer MS-MVP
Digital Media Experience

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I am a volunteer

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me may not work for you

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[curiousminds]

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tkurtz

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First...try the following...open WMP and go to...
Tools / Options / File Types tab / Select All / Apply / OK.

The reason I suggest this is because my WMP recently
quit playing .MPEG files and this simple adjustment was
the fix.

Good luck...

--

J. Inzer MS-MVP
Digital Media Experience

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk

No that didn't work. It was one of the first things I tried. Thnx though.

 

[John Inzer]

No that didn't work. It was one of the first things I tried. Thnx
though.

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OK...have you tried the following codec package?

K-Lite Codec Pack 5.05 (Full)
http://www.filehippo.com/download_klite_codec_pack/

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J. Inzer MS-MVP
Digital Media Experience

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This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk

 

[curiousminds]

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tkurtz

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OK...have you tried the following codec package?

K-Lite Codec Pack 5.05 (Full)
http://www.filehippo.com/download_klite_codec_pack/

--

J. Inzer MS-MVP
Digital Media Experience

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This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

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This time it did work on the videos I had in my computer. Just have to wait for the others to finish to find out if that was the issue, completely. Thanks again.

 

[John Inzer]

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What worked? Re-setting the associations or installing the codec pack?

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J. Inzer MS-MVP
Digital Media Experience

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I am a volunteer

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me may not work for you

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[curiousminds]

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tkurtz

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What worked? Re-setting the associations or installing the codec pack?

--

J. Inzer MS-MVP
Digital Media Experience

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This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

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Installing the codec pack. Even though I had all of them before. They were
however seperate individuals, not all in one like the klite. Thanks.

 

[John Inzer]

Installing the codec pack. Even though I had all of them before.
They were however seperate individuals, not all in one like the
klite. Thanks.

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OK...good.

Thanks for the update.

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J. Inzer MS-MVP
Digital Media Experience

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This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk