Re: WMP 11 not playing vids, only visualisations
- From: "Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" <neil@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2008 20:49:14 GMT
OK you probably need to de-associate Real Player and Quicktime from
some of the content types they can play, so you can then reclaim them
for playback in WMP.
If you open Real Player, go to Tools -> Preferences -> Content ->
Media Types. Untick the "make real player my universal player" and
choose "Manually configure types" -> Select...
Unticking individual items could get tricky if you don't know what
they do (but I'd choose to untick MP3 stuff, DVD, WAV, MPEG and AVI
video, all of windows media stuff) - you could choose Deselect All
though, and reset those if you need to play them later in Real Player
Keep that window / list open for reference, and go to Quicktime.
Choose Edit -> Preferences -> Quicktime Preferences -> Browser -> File
Types. Repeat the same steps there. If you see "Reclaim media types"
or similar listed, untick that or Quicktime will grab the media
associations back again
OK out of both of those, and head for media player, choose Tools ->
More Options -> File Types and tick all of the ones you can see.
That should get WMP to play as much as possible, but in general I'd
fallback to Real Player where available for stuff WMP can't play by
deafult, because the auto-download of playback decoders is better.
HTH
Cheers - Neil
On Tue, 7 Oct 2008 19:30:01 -0700, DR <DR@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Neil,------------------------------------------------
Thank you for getting back to me.
I don't know what mpeg icon you speak of and I have XP. (the same as on my
old PC) I am not sure now if WMP is my default player, yet media opens in it
when I click most icons, just not all of them.(like the old system)
I do have Realplayer and quicktime on my PC.
What do I need to do? I like to use WMP. I just want to be able to play all
vids.
Thanks again.
DR
"Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" wrote:
Ah perhaps I misunderstood what you meant - when you mentioned the
icons it became a little clearer (I hope). Quicktime, and Real Player
will usually grab all available file types if you agree when asked
during install - it's easy to do that if you're in a hurry.
If the icon *doesn't* look like WMP11 then it's probably not
associated with the player. If you go to windows explorer, then drag
the MPEG icon onto media player, does it play then ?
If so, you should be able to reset the program defaults for WMP and
Quicktime to go back to WMP. The steps differ between XP and Vista -
which do you have - vista or XP on the new PC ?
HTH
Cheers - Neil
On Tue, 7 Oct 2008 12:19:18 -0700, DR <DR@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Neil,------------------------------------------------
Thank you but, 'NO SOAP"
It didn't do anything. I tried all the decoders listed.
They (videos, mped wmp, avi) all played on my old system
(same as I have now except slower. (XPPro+most software, more ram, faster CPU)
The icon for the mpg's is different on my desktop also. (forgot to mention)
It used to be the WMP icon, now it's just a generic mpeg icon.
Any additional help will be appreciated.
DR
"Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" wrote:
On Mon, 6 Oct 2008 07:41:02 -0700, DR <DR@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
I just got a new PC and installed WMP 11 (old PC had 10) and it plays some
videos and not others. I downloaded the latest codecs from MS site and DIVX.
I only see visualizations play. (WMP 10 played all vids)
Apple Quicktime plays the vids but not WMP.
Files are MPG's
Check to see if there are any WMP compatible DVD decoders on the PC :
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=DE1491AC-0AB6-4990-943D-627E6ADE9FCB&displaylang=en
DecCheck can list the decoders, and allow you to switch to a
compatible one if required. Sometimes a replace-install of WMP11 seems
to lose track of the compatible decoders, but it's more likely to be
some video editing software broke this association
Note that MPEG decoders aren't provided in XP, and only on vista home
premium and ultimate - so you'd have to purchase a compatible one if
you never had those decoders present before (e.g. if it's a new PC)
HTH
Cheers - Neil
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