Videos won't play

[Hockeystick 0]

I can no longer play any videos on my computer even though I have the necessary codec. Videos I know worked before won't play in neither MP 10, MP classic or Winamp.

Please help, I don't want to reinstall Windows.

[ROCO*AFZ* 0]

Do you get an error? Vista? Nforce board?

(reason i said nforce is because the network manager included with make the media player crash in vista. uninstallnig it from programs and features cured my Internet explorer crashes when video was on the site)

[Hockeystick 0]

I have XP with SP2 and all updates.

The only error message I get when I try to open videos in MP orPL classic is:

AppName: wmplayer.exe	 AppVer: 11.0.5721.5145	 ModName: unknown

ModVer: 0.0.0.0	 Offset: 00000000

And when I open the technical info:

Code: 0xc0000005

Flags: 0x00000000

Record: 0x0000000000000000

Adress: 0x0000000000000000


And system info...

Edited November 8, 2007 by Hockeystick

[Rocky 1,224]

Frustrating one.

Have you reduced hardware acceleration recently and forgot to switch it back on, I did that once and did some head scratching before the penny dropped.

Try realplayer or divx to playback movies?

[ROCO*AFZ* 0]

Go to start, settings, control panel administrative tools, event viewer. there should be an error there under application (maybe system also) Those will help and should give more detail.

[Hockeystick 0]

Yay, it's working again

I made a system recovery (start - help & support - system recovery). It's now as good as new... or at least 5 days younger

None of my files disappeared, except an update or two (which was the problem anyway) so it's better than a complete reinstallation of the OS.

Thanks for your support guys, I appreciate it.

[Tinker 1]

JET AUDIO

Free program i use, never seems to fail with all types of movies / Audio. Probably more out there, but I`ve not used Windows Player since, and had 0 issues.

[firefly2442 0]

http://www.videolan.org/

Never had a video that didn't play.