Windows Media Player 11 / seek bar does not work with MPEG files
The seek bar fails to work in Windows Media Player only when I play MPEG files. The video files starts but does not move ahead at all. Also in the library there is no complete lenght shown up. Fast Forwarding is working fine. I need some help here to fix the same. I am using Windows Media Player 10 and I am sure there would be people who are aware about this bug.
Re: Windows Media Player 11 / seek bar does not work with MPEG files
Hullo, Seeing though this kept coming up in a related search I had I signed up to post my findings. Now, not with movie files for me, but .WAV/WMA/CD AUDIO Files the Seek in WMP11 would not work unless I ran WMP from the programs location, it would not seek if I double clicked a file or from a CD, now I have seached high and low and haven't found a solution on the internet, but I have come across a curious fix (well for my audio file problems at least, it might work with video too) No where had this answer, and I looked high and low at registry values and settings and conflicts, and my finding drew me toward the way it works with the library, If I had a WAV file playing that wasn't seeking and in the library tab I clicked "play all" it would start to seek, yay... now, this still was a problem as when I shut down WMP and double clicked the file again, alas the seek did not work again. Anyway the reason I am posting is because I found a fix for it. When WMP is maximised, the first tab... now playing, by default has an option turned off that should be on (well at least on 4 PCs I've seen). There is a little arrow on the bottom of the "Now Playing" Tab... Click it and then check the option "Show List Pane". Problem fixed, I can now double click WAV/WMA/CD etc... Files and the seek bar works once again, simple as that.
Re: Windows Media Player 11 / seek bar does not work with MPEG files
I have also encountered the same problem. But I found that when I open the files directly and then add them to a playlist, I can use the seek bar. However it is time consuming. And it is inconvenient because I have to open the files in the playlist so I cant see their thumbnails. Does anyone know other ways to fix this problem?