Windows Media Player won't play videos

Hello all, My windows media up till now has played all my videos. Now it
won't play certain ones that it did before. I have xpsp2 with wmp 11. It
gives no error message or code for the reason. Just says windows has
encountered a problem and needs to close. Have most of the regularly used
codecs etc, still won't play. Any help is appreciated. Thanks.
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tkurtz

curiousminds wrote:
> Hello all, My windows media up till now has played all my videos.
> Now it won't play certain ones that it did before. I have xpsp2 with
> wmp 11. It gives no error message or code for the reason. Just says
> windows has encountered a problem and needs to close. Have most of
> the regularly used codecs etc, still won't play. Any help is
> appreciated. Thanks.
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First...try the following...open WMP and go to...
Tools / Options / File Types tab / Select All / Apply / OK.

The reason I suggest this is because my WMP recently
quit playing .MPEG files and this simple adjustment was
the fix.

Good luck...

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J. Inzer MS-MVP
Digital Media Experience

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This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk

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tkurtz


"John Inzer" wrote:

> curiousminds wrote:
> > Hello all, My windows media up till now has played all my videos.
> > Now it won't play certain ones that it did before. I have xpsp2 with
> > wmp 11. It gives no error message or code for the reason. Just says
> > windows has encountered a problem and needs to close. Have most of
> > the regularly used codecs etc, still won't play. Any help is
> > appreciated. Thanks.
> =========================================
> First...try the following...open WMP and go to...
> Tools / Options / File Types tab / Select All / Apply / OK.
>
> The reason I suggest this is because my WMP recently
> quit playing .MPEG files and this simple adjustment was
> the fix.
>
> Good luck...
>
> --
>
> J. Inzer MS-MVP
> Digital Media Experience
>
> Notice
> This is not tech support
> I am a volunteer
>
> Solutions that work for
> me may not work for you
>
> Proceed at your own risk


No that didn't work. It was one of the first things I tried. Thnx though.
>
>
>

curiousminds wrote:
> No that didn't work. It was one of the first things I tried. Thnx
> though.
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OK...have you tried the following codec package?

K-Lite Codec Pack 5.05 (Full)
http://www.filehippo.com/download_klite_codec_pack/

--

J. Inzer MS-MVP
Digital Media Experience

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk

--
tkurtz


"John Inzer" wrote:

> curiousminds wrote:
> > No that didn't work. It was one of the first things I tried. Thnx
> > though.
> =====================================
> OK...have you tried the following codec package?
>
> K-Lite Codec Pack 5.05 (Full)
> http://www.filehippo.com/download_klite_codec_pack/
>
> --
>
> J. Inzer MS-MVP
> Digital Media Experience
>
> Notice
> This is not tech support
> I am a volunteer
>
> Solutions that work for
> me may not work for you
>
> Proceed at your own risk
>
> This time it did work on the videos I had in my computer. Just have to wait for the others to finish to find out if that was the issue, completely. Thanks again.

>

curiousminds wrote:
>> This time it did work on the videos I had in my computer. Just have
>> to wait for the others to finish to find out if that was the issue,
>> completely. Thanks again.
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What worked? Re-setting the associations or installing the codec pack?

--

J. Inzer MS-MVP
Digital Media Experience

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk

--
tkurtz


"John Inzer" wrote:

> curiousminds wrote:
> >> This time it did work on the videos I had in my computer. Just have
> >> to wait for the others to finish to find out if that was the issue,
> >> completely. Thanks again.
> ======================================================
> What worked? Re-setting the associations or installing the codec pack?
>
> --
>
> J. Inzer MS-MVP
> Digital Media Experience
>
> Notice
> This is not tech support
> I am a volunteer
>
> Solutions that work for
> me may not work for you
>
> Proceed at your own risk
>
Installing the codec pack. Even though I had all of them before. They were
however seperate individuals, not all in one like the klite. Thanks.
>
>

curiousminds wrote:
> Installing the codec pack. Even though I had all of them before.
> They were however seperate individuals, not all in one like the
> klite. Thanks.
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OK...good.

Thanks for the update.

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J. Inzer MS-MVP
Digital Media Experience

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk