Windows media player help?

[opel]

I keep getting a problem with windows mediaplayer 9. It always plays the audio from streams but sometimes it doesn't show the video.

It will act like this for a couple of days then go back to normal.

Any explanations????

[Niann]

Is it the same video that it does this to? Because it really sounds like a missing Codec problem...

Cheers!
-Niann

[teet]

not really a solution to your problem, but try downloading vlc...nifty little player that works on just about every video type.

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

-teet

[Laslett]

Sounds as though you need the codec.

Xvid or Divx codecs are the newbies

[Niann]

Hey teet, that is a pretty cool vid player, thanks for the link.

Cheers!
-Niann

[teet]

no problem niann :)

i stumbled across this player about a year ago...it's AWESOME

it will play practically anything...quicktime movies, weird divx movies, partially downloaded avi's...plus it's a lot less bulky than windows media player.

-teet

[opel]

what are codecs? how do I use them

[Digitalosophy]

i needed about 30 codecs to play vcd's, i honestly hate windows media, it never works right for every video