windows media player won't play video, only audio

Anderson123 · #1 Mar 1, 2007, 09:13 AM

My windows media player will only play audio and not video. any ideas why?

Curlyben · Mar 1, 2007, 09:35 AM

You need to make sure all your codecs are updated.

HVAC888 · Mar 1, 2007, 12:13 PM

A couple of nice software packages to use instead of Windows media player, is Media Player Classic or Video Lan (VLC) media player which has built-in codecs.

Then you need a codecs pack such as ffdshow, which has compatible codecs for xvid, divx, mp4, etc.

Anderson123 · Mar 1, 2007, 01:22 PM

Codecs updated. thanks curlyben

chuff · Mar 20, 2007, 07:12 PM

Okay, stupid question. How do I update all my codecs? I downloaded a documentary that has the video but no audio. Exact opposite of Anderson's situation.

HVAC888 · Mar 21, 2007, 07:06 AM

See my first post above. Ffdshow can be downloaded as a .exe file. Just run it and codecs will be installed.

chuff · Mar 21, 2007, 11:26 AM

Oh my God your THE MAN! It took me three attempts to totally figure it out but I've got it with sound. THANK YOU SO MUCH.



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