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Cant play movies
Hi
Just noticed this the other day. I wanted to play an ECD and see the extra stuff so I went through the normal way to play it, Windows Media Player came up and that was it even though I have a GeForce 6600 256Mb card recently fitted. The system went on a go slow forcing me to reboot. I tried again and the same happened. I have been able to play DVD films before the new video card but for some reason stopped playing them. I have re-downloaded and re-installed Windows Media Player 10 and get the same result. What could be causing this to happen when there was nothing done to really warrant this behaviour? Many thanks Nig |
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It might just be the DVD you tried to play. Have you tried a movie that
worked in the past? Borrox wrote: Hi Just noticed this the other day. I wanted to play an ECD and see the extra stuff so I went through the normal way to play it, Windows Media Player came up and that was it even though I have a GeForce 6600 256Mb card recently fitted. The system went on a go slow forcing me to reboot. I tried again and the same happened. I have been able to play DVD films before the new video card but for some reason stopped playing them. I have re-downloaded and re-installed Windows Media Player 10 and get the same result. What could be causing this to happen when there was nothing done to really warrant this behaviour? Many thanks Nig |
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"Bennett Price" wrote in message t... It might just be the DVD you tried to play. Have you tried a movie that worked in the past? I have tried lots of DVD's and VCD's and all try to open with Windows Media Player 10 and locks up. |
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"Borrox" wrote in message ... Hi Just noticed this the other day. I wanted to play an ECD and see the extra stuff so I went through the normal way to play it, Windows Media Player came up and that was it even though I have a GeForce 6600 256Mb card recently fitted. The system went on a go slow forcing me to reboot. I tried again and the same happened. I have been able to play DVD films before the new video card but for some reason stopped playing them. I have re-downloaded and re-installed Windows Media Player 10 and get the same result. What could be causing this to happen when there was nothing done to really warrant this behaviour? Many thanks Nig Hi Nig. WMP 10 is more M$ bloatware. Go to this site and D\load MPC, it`ll do what you want, without bothering with codecs (they`re already in ). http://www.free-codecs.com/download/...er_Classic.htm -- bw..OJ |
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"old jon" wrote in message ... "Borrox" wrote in message ... Hi Just noticed this the other day. I wanted to play an ECD and see the extra stuff so I went through the normal way to play it, Windows Media Player came up and that was it even though I have a GeForce 6600 256Mb card recently fitted. The system went on a go slow forcing me to reboot. I tried again and the same happened. I have been able to play DVD films before the new video card but for some reason stopped playing them. I have re-downloaded and re-installed Windows Media Player 10 and get the same result. What could be causing this to happen when there was nothing done to really warrant this behaviour? Many thanks Nig Hi Nig. WMP 10 is more M$ bloatware. Go to this site and D\load MPC, it`ll do what you want, without bothering with codecs (they`re already in ). http://www.free-codecs.com/download/...er_Classic.htm -- bw..OJ Thanks OJ I will download and give it a go. What could be the reason for this happening? All I can think of is Windows Media Player 10. Many thanks Nig |
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"Borrox" wrote in message ... "old jon" wrote in message ... "Borrox" wrote in message ... Hi Just had another thought. You did load the latest drivers for your gfx card ?. bw..OJ |
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Just had another thought. You did load the latest drivers for your gfx card ?. bw..OJ Hi Downloaded MPC and makes no difference. I made sure I had the latest drivers for the card as soon as I had finished installing the supplied drivers etc. |
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"Borrox" wrote in message ... Just had another thought. You did load the latest drivers for your gfx card ?. bw..OJ Hi Downloaded MPC and makes no difference. I made sure I had the latest drivers for the card as soon as I had finished installing the supplied drivers etc. Have a look in your Event Viewer for any errors\warnings. I`m running out of ideas. -- bw..OJ |
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"old jon" wrote in message ... "Borrox" wrote in message ... Just had another thought. You did load the latest drivers for your gfx card ?. bw..OJ Hi Downloaded MPC and makes no difference. I made sure I had the latest drivers for the card as soon as I had finished installing the supplied drivers etc. Have a look in your Event Viewer for any errors\warnings. I`m running out of ideas. -- bw..OJ Hi OJ I have completely uninstalled, my vid card, Realplayer, Windows Media Player and any other media players that were installed and started from scratch, one at a time. I do not know why, all seems to be back to normal with only one thing different. No Windows Media Player. I suppose that says the lot really. Many thanks Nig |
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