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| 464979 | 2006-06-21 10:56:00 | Today's problem: Did a clean install of XP with latest Nvidea GeForce drivers. Vids were playing fine (both WMV, mpeg etc) in diff players including WMP and Zoom player then WMP went berserk trying to access the net, which I stopped. Now any time I try to play a vid in any player the player opens says 'opening video' but hangs, CPU hits 100% and everything (cursor etc) slows right down then display cycles on and off and I have to hard shut down comp. I have tried uninstalling/reinstalling players (except WMP), uninstalled/reinstalled video drivers and now I'm stumped. I did download a codec pack for XP and installed Creative sound drivers, but don't think this is the problem? Any suggestions before I do yet another clean install of XP? |
Shortcircuit (1666) | ||
| 464980 | 2006-06-21 11:02:00 | sounds like a codec problem.... possible caused by the codec pack and wmp tryingto download a new codec. | tweak'e (69) | ||
| 464981 | 2006-06-21 11:08:00 | Its the Geoforce updated drivers, load the originals... | Skinnerjack (59) | ||
| 464982 | 2006-06-21 11:10:00 | Thanks Tweak'e. I downloaded the codec pack because I was grumpy about XP and Msoft wanting to phone home with their WGA 'spyware'. Thought that WMP would behave itself if I had codecs on my box... obviously not. I will try getting rid of the codec pack and see if that works! |
Shortcircuit (1666) | ||
| 464983 | 2006-06-21 11:13:00 | a codec pack is not always something you can just uninstall. you need to deregister the codecs and/or filters. one reason i like zoom player as it has a built in tool for doing that. | tweak'e (69) | ||
| 464984 | 2006-06-21 12:33:00 | Thanks very much guys, it was a mission... turned out it was the video drivers and ALL my fault. When I reinstalled XP I had driver CD for video card, only problem is that I had TWO CDs- one for my old card and one for the newer card (both same brand). You guessed it- I tried installing the drivers for the old card after the latest drivers from nVidia site. :horrified I think I'll leave the codec pack alone in case I screw anything else up :D |
Shortcircuit (1666) | ||
| 464985 | 2006-06-22 10:53:00 | OK, I spoke too soon. This evening I went to play an mpeg and WMP froze, decided to try Moviemaker and it froze importing video... more hard shut downs. I have installed the correct video drivers and Windows did recognise my video card. I also set WMP to 'download codecs automaticly' but that didn't help. I'm guessing it's the codecs, I downloaded MSoft WMPcodec pack.exe and another called XPcodec pack. There does not appear to be any way to uninstall these (and Tweak'es got me scared now!). Any ideas before I spend the weekend doing yet another clean install? :groan: |
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| 464986 | 2006-06-22 11:18:00 | www.inmatrix.com/ zoomplayer has a feature which makes it easy to unregister codecs etc + a good guide on what codecs are good etc. | tweak'e (69) | ||
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