GhostShadow Posted September 15, 2005 Share Posted September 15, 2005 I noticed a few days ago that some thing was wrong w/ my computers media player. I tried to play a video clip and the audio part played but the visual part stayed black and when i tried to close it, my computer froze up on me. i had to trun off manualy. I tried to scan for spyware, viriuses and i did a system check after i reboted. I tried to repair it using my operationg systme disc but when i hit "r" for repair it didnt start to repair. I know there is a lot of computer guru's in here and i was wondering if any one could help. I tried to go to microsoft.com but there chats are really confusing and i don't know which one to go to... So if any one could give me a link to a good chat site fo r this that would be great. I already tried yahoo chat room and they just sent me some...colorful files about....colorful things.... thank you :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S0V13T Posted September 15, 2005 Share Posted September 15, 2005 My advice would be to try migrating to a different media player, such as VLC or BSPlayer. Windows Media Player has a long history of being buggy, spying on its users and being wasteful with system resourses. baring that, Try uninstalling WMP, and installing the newest version of it from the MS site (Not through Windows update). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostShadow Posted September 15, 2005 Author Share Posted September 15, 2005 i got real player and i have the same problem... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wasted Posted September 15, 2005 Share Posted September 15, 2005 RealPlayer? Now there's a buggy, spying piece of software. Like before, try VLC - it's a simple, non-commercial player with no strings attached, and it'll play pretty much anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thejman Posted September 15, 2005 Share Posted September 15, 2005 if the audio plays put the video stays black (blank) then it is most likely a missing video codec Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostShadow Posted September 15, 2005 Author Share Posted September 15, 2005 if the audio plays put the video stays black (blank) then it is most likely a missing video codec It does it on evry thing i play.... can i find this VLC on google.... or can you post a link to where i can get it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S0V13T Posted September 15, 2005 Share Posted September 15, 2005 The VLC official download site Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostShadow Posted September 15, 2005 Author Share Posted September 15, 2005 hey, thanks but it still doesnt work....any other ideas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theaveng Posted September 15, 2005 Share Posted September 15, 2005 I tried to play a video clip and the audio part played but the visual part stayed black and when i tried to close it' date=' my computer froze up on me. i had to trun off manualy. I tried to scan for spyware, viriuses and i did a system check after i reboted. I tried to repair it using my operationg systme disc but when i hit "r" for repair it didnt start to repair. [/quote'] You did all that, just because a program crashed? The likely cause was a missing codec. Windows Media Player got confused & hung the system. (shrug) With Microsoft's buggy OS and programs, freeze-up is to be expected. My computer does it least once a week. No big deal. Get KC Software's VideoInspecter. That will look at the video clip, and determine which codec is missing. That should fix your problem: http://www.kcsoftwares.com/index.php?vtb troy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theaveng Posted September 15, 2005 Share Posted September 15, 2005 if the audio plays put the video stays black (blank) then it is most likely a missing video codec It does it on evry thing i play.... Odd. But it could still be a missing codec. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TFMF Posted September 15, 2005 Share Posted September 15, 2005 Well not if he had downloaded the other players like VLC and Real Player as well - they come with there own set of Codecs as well don't they? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostShadow Posted September 15, 2005 Author Share Posted September 15, 2005 a missing codec...it does it on every video clip i play and on every media player I have, Real Player, VCL, Windows... But i will try your idea now. About 5 mins ago my computer screen turned balck...My computer was on, my monater had power and was reciving a siginal. I reboted and an error reoprt came up and told me that it was an issue w/ my "RADION DISPLAY DRIVER" i looked on my device manager for that but i didnt see it. I tried to go to the ATI web site and update my driver their but i got confused and lost and it was playing 20 questions w/ me...over and over and over, every page i wne to.... So mabe this is an error w/ my vidoe card after all. I am gonna roll back my drive on that and use my original standered driver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pella Posted September 15, 2005 Share Posted September 15, 2005 I tend to use Nero Showtime or divx, and very occassionally WinDVD7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TetsuoShima Posted September 15, 2005 Share Posted September 15, 2005 Some ATI Radeon types have hardware accelerated video (mpeg, mpeg2, mpeg4) playback. If you've got a problem with the vid-card, it might be that the video-playback of the files in question and the problem with the vid-cars are related. Have you updated to the latest driver-set? Also try disabling the hardware-video-playback-support for you radeon card... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostShadow Posted September 15, 2005 Author Share Posted September 15, 2005 THANKS GUYS, i got it to work. I just disabled my RADION card, and enabled my standered one. Now i am gonna uninstal redion and then reinstal it and see if it wroks. Thank you all very very very much! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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