Window's Media Player Help

[Greenguy]

I've been havng problems with WMP as far as playing mpg's goes. 9 out of 10 times instead of playing the movie, it starts of the "ambiance" screen & then crashes. I have it set to be the default player for mpgs & this seemed to start happening after I installed WinAmp - and I have WinAmpo set for Audio Only :(

It tells me the problem is this:
http://oca.microsoft.com/en/Response.asp?SID=615
& that I need this "MainConcept MPEG Encoder 1.3.1 for Windows" - but that doesn't exist on the site & the new one costs money.

Anmyone have this problem before?

Help! :)

[Cleo]

Hmmm :D
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/
|escape|

[Greenguy]

I knew I'd regret not putting in the "Cleo does not need to reply" comment on my post :D

[Jim]

Uninstall it and reinstall it :)

[Ramster]

LOL at Cleo. I downloaded Quicktime a while ago and my movies play fine now.

[Surfn]

Find something other than WinAmp for your audio.

[Greenguy]

I did the uninstall/reinstall - no luck :(

Surfn - I need WinAmp for the radio shows :(

[Surfn]

I don't use WinAmp or WMP for the shows. WinAmp sets up to many conflicts with WMP. I've never known anyone who tried to use both that didn't have constant problems. |sad|

[Greenguy]

I'd shitcan WinAmp if I didn't need it to broadcast the shows :)

[thrillho]

Do you have Irfanview? If you've downloaded the full plug-ins file, it'll play your mpegs, and every other video and audio type I've ever heard of. And even more that I haven't.

[Greenguy]

Is Irfanview part of WMP?

[thrillho]

http://www.irfanview.com/

Download the plug-in pack (it's all free) and it plays/displays just about everything.

[Alphawolf]

Hmm. Search google for codecs.

Did you delete any by mistake? It doesn't say 'looking for codec' when you start an MPG, just shows the ambiance screen right away?

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=windows+codec+downloads

[venturi]

Just disable the .wmp extension from your WinAmp file associations and make sure that Windows Media Player does associate itself with them. Should clear up the problems.

[Greenguy]

Alphawolf - I'm gonna do some hunting around for the codec's - the one they suggested is $150 :(

venturi - wmv files plys fine, it's mpgs that are fucked :(

[amber438]

go to a newsgroup and download it
alt.binaries.multimedia.utilities has it

[Alphawolf]

Did you ever fix it, greenie?

[Greenguy]

Fuck no :(

I tried to go to the news group, but my ISP must not like that one as it's not on the list :(

1/2 the sites I find that do have the codec wants to charge me for it, but it seems stupid to pay for it since it was working.

The other 1/2 are in some other language - LOL

I'm still looking :)

[Alphawolf]

Use bablefish to navigate the sites in other languages.

[Opti]

I had the same problem... not sure if it happened after winamp install.. but I tried everything before giving up and associating mpegs with real player :\

which sucks

[Opti]

you can view that NG here
http://alt.binaries.nl/viewgroup/?group=alt.binaries.multimedia.utilities

but i cant find anything that looks like the codec GG mentioned

[Entreri]

I use both WinAmp and WMP without any problems. I've installed a few "codecs packs" and my WMP plays about everything I feed it with.

Entreri.

p.s. You can try installing Microsoft's codecs :

http://download.microsoft.com/download/a/0/3/a0398036-25b9-410c-b371-c59957c1b0f4/WM9Codecs.exe

If you decide to try one of the many codec packs out there, some of them install spywares so you may have to clean up after installing them.

[Greenguy]

It's probably a moot point at this time - my hard drive crashed yesterday :(

[Alphawolf]

Did you have to do a full reinstall?

This may come in handy for peace of mind for the future:

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/ptech/03/22/dvd.burners.ap/index.html

Did the drive give any indication it was failing? You run scandisk once in a while?

Did you have the latest driver/firmware for the controller?

Regardles- it really sucks. Sorry man. :(