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Windows Media Player - broken
Name: Pugwash (by John Gregory) Date: April 3, 2004 at 08:18:38 Pacific OS: XP Home CPU/Ram: P4 2.5GHz / 512MB
Comment:
Don't know what has caused this one.
When I click on an AVI file usually WMP starts and the film will play as normal - no problem. Now, all I get is audio and NO pictures, also there is NO "tab" showing on the Task Bar so I can not stop the audio from playing - any ideas??
Name: tommy o Date: April 3, 2004 at 08:59:59 Pacific
Reply:
Just a guess here; maybe a corrupt file imbedded in WMP? Have you scanned with anti-virus, Adaware, and Spybot? Might be worth scanning, just in case. None of my business, but I think Winamp is far superior to WMP....have you ever checked Winamp out? The new build of Winamp is quite impressive, also a very stable player for audio/video. I now use it for everything...works like a charm. Hope this helps a little, good luck. ~Tommyo
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Response Number 2
Name: Solarian Date: April 3, 2004 at 09:38:25 Pacific
Reply:
John:
Besides WMP, do you have a second media player on your system? When a second media player is set as the default, it can interfere with WMP. (I have found this not to be true with Winamp, however.)
Solarian
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Response Number 3
Name: Pugwash (by John Gregory) Date: April 3, 2004 at 10:21:05 Pacific
Reply:
Hi all, thanks for the replys.
Solarian, yes I do have another player (PowerDVD) have not used it for months, WMP has always been my default. Now removed though, why do I need two?
tommyo, I had completely forgotten about WinAMP, I've now downloaded the latest free version and it works well, thanks.
The only problem is that I would still like to fix WMP, or at least find out what the problem is/was.
John
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Response Number 4
Name: Solarian Date: April 3, 2004 at 11:57:34 Pacific
Reply:
John:
What version of WMP are you using? If it's version 9, the easiest way to fix things would be to uninstall WMP, then download and reinstall a new copy.
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Name: Pugwash (by John Gregory)
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