WMP10 Video Clip's Crashing and Restarting System

I'm having serious problems with WMP 10.Everytime I play a "Video Clip" and
try to resize by dragging my computer crashes and restarts.It usually
happens when I enlarge,but now it's doing it when I drag to shrink.This only
happens when I play a "Video Clip".This doesn't happen with "Windows Media
Audio/Video file" or "QuickTime Movie" or anything else. Any help will be
greatly appreciated.



Windows XP,Media Center Edition-Version 2002 Service Pack 3 Media
Player Version 10.00.00.4058 Microsoft .Net Framework Version
2.0.50728.1433
Video Card ATI X800 ATI Driver Version 8.561.081-081201a1-072271c-ATI
ATI Catalyst Control Center Version 2008.1201.1503


Error Signature

BCCode:1000008e BCP1:c000005 BCP2:008FE000 BCP3:A6360B28
BCP4:00000000

OSVer:5_1_2600 SP:3_0 Product:25_1

Hmm your video drivers seem right up to date according to the ATI
website, so that probably shouldn't be the issue.

http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_ca...aiwradeonx-mce

Have you got, or ever installed a codec pack, such as K-Lite or
Cole2k? Several versions of those packages have bugs which can result
in serious playback problems - though it shouldn't end with your PC
restarting (was it just WMP that crashed, or the PC ?)

I'd start by removing the codec packs from Add/Remove programs and see
if the problem goes away.

In the case of AVI files (right-click file, choose properties and see
if the file name ends in .avi) have a look at the file using GSpot
http://www.headbands.com/gspot/ to see if you have an appropriate
video decoder - and if so, list in your reply what GSpot says is the
codec required for playback

HTH
Cheers - Neil


On Fri, 9 Jan 2009 18:53:24 -0500, "Brian" <briani@brian.com> wrote:

>I'm having serious problems with WMP 10.Everytime I play a "Video Clip" and
>try to resize by dragging my computer crashes and restarts.It usually
>happens when I enlarge,but now it's doing it when I drag to shrink.This only
>happens when I play a "Video Clip".This doesn't happen with "Windows Media
>Audio/Video file" or "QuickTime Movie" or anything else. Any help will be
>greatly appreciated.
>
>
>
>Windows XP,Media Center Edition-Version 2002 Service Pack 3 Media
>Player Version 10.00.00.4058 Microsoft .Net Framework Version
>2.0.50728.1433
>Video Card ATI X800 ATI Driver Version 8.561.081-081201a1-072271c-ATI
>ATI Catalyst Control Center Version 2008.1201.1503
>
>
>Error Signature
>
>BCCode:1000008e BCP1:c000005 BCP2:008FE000 BCP3:A6360B28
>BCP4:00000000
>
>OSVer:5_1_2600 SP:3_0 Product:25_1
>
>
>
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http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/mvpfaqs

Thanks Neil,
I haven't installed any codec packs that I remember and I couldn't find any
in Add/Remove. However I downloaded Gspot and it found my problem. I needed
a DivX codec. I really don't know why this caused a system crash but the
DivX codec fixed it. Gspot is a nice little piece of software. Thanks so
much for your help.




"Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" <neil@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:io4km4pe86jf9kra6e6n2qh1mof70ulmqu@4ax.com...
> Hmm your video drivers seem right up to date according to the ATI
> website, so that probably shouldn't be the issue.
>
> http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_ca...aiwradeonx-mce
>
> Have you got, or ever installed a codec pack, such as K-Lite or
> Cole2k? Several versions of those packages have bugs which can result
> in serious playback problems - though it shouldn't end with your PC
> restarting (was it just WMP that crashed, or the PC ?)
>
> I'd start by removing the codec packs from Add/Remove programs and see
> if the problem goes away.
>
> In the case of AVI files (right-click file, choose properties and see
> if the file name ends in .avi) have a look at the file using GSpot
> http://www.headbands.com/gspot/ to see if you have an appropriate
> video decoder - and if so, list in your reply what GSpot says is the
> codec required for playback
>
> HTH
> Cheers - Neil
>
>
> On Fri, 9 Jan 2009 18:53:24 -0500, "Brian" <briani@brian.com> wrote:
>
>>I'm having serious problems with WMP 10.Everytime I play a "Video Clip"
>>and
>>try to resize by dragging my computer crashes and restarts.It usually
>>happens when I enlarge,but now it's doing it when I drag to shrink.This
>>only
>>happens when I play a "Video Clip".This doesn't happen with "Windows Media
>>Audio/Video file" or "QuickTime Movie" or anything else. Any help will be
>>greatly appreciated.
>>
>>
>>
>>Windows XP,Media Center Edition-Version 2002 Service Pack 3 Media
>>Player Version 10.00.00.4058 Microsoft .Net Framework Version
>>2.0.50728.1433
>>Video Card ATI X800 ATI Driver Version 8.561.081-081201a1-072271c-ATI
>>ATI Catalyst Control Center Version 2008.1201.1503
>>
>>
>>Error Signature
>>
>>BCCode:1000008e BCP1:c000005 BCP2:008FE000 BCP3:A6360B28
>>BCP4:00000000
>>
>>OSVer:5_1_2600 SP:3_0 Product:25_1
>>
>>
>>
> ------------------------------------------------
> Digital Media MVP : 2004-2009
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/mvpfaqs

[krun4k]

I just recently also started have the computer reboot while playing either media player files or streaming vids using media player. The only updates I've had are windows updates which could have included media player updates. I flashed my nvidia card and it didn't help. I did download a K-lite codec pack almost a year ago which I just now removed. I'm going to go back now and try and play media files to see if the computer reboots. I only get an error message occasionally. Not everytime!
If this doesn't help I'll be back.
Krun

If you're rebooting trying to play video, your video card driver would seem
to have a pretty serious problem that should be looked into on that level.
This is not likely to be anything on the codec or file format level, only
the video card driver level.

K-Lite has done stupidly bad damage to user's systems and is not something I
would trust.

--
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See http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info.
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
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>
> I just recently also started have the computer reboot while playing
> either media player files or streaming vids using media player. The only
> updates I've had are windows updates which could have included media
> player updates. I flashed my nvidia card and it didn't help. I did
> download a K-lite codec pack almost a year ago which I just now removed.
> I'm going to go back now and try and play media files to see if the
> computer reboots. I only get an error message occasionally. Not
> everytime!
> If this doesn't help I'll be back.
> Krun
>
>
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