Windows Media Player 10 problems..

Why do I seem to have the most computer problems?

Its not fair I tell you!

At the moment, I cant play any of my music on WMP10
When I try to open a song, Up comes the box saying it has crashed.

I strongly dont think its the codecs, as Ive just wiped my hard drive and put all my codecs back on after a clean installation of windows.

I have tried installing them unistalling WMP but that doesnt work.

Any ideas OTHER than not to use WMP?

What are the file type you are trying to play? Where did they come from?

Try playing them though something else and see if it works (if only make sure it's WMP)

going back to basics, try uninstalling it, restart and reinstall from a new download (not over windows update, download it direct from MS:http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/download/download.aspx)

Yep. the files work with other players. (Ultra player)

I cant seem to find where to uniinstall WMP10 from... its not in add/remove programs and theres no "unistall Media Player" on teh taskbar.

I have already tried installing new versions, but it still doesnt work.

I will give what you said a go though.

Try ticking "show updates" in add / remove programs - It might show up then

i think you need a new motherboard

Im unistalling it now.



Ta for that Sym

and Ado:


Nope, I just unistalled WMP10 and WMP9 isnt playing the fiels either.

I will install WMP10 and see if that does anything.


Nope..that hasnt worked either. The wierd thing seems that Windows Media player doenst actually crash.... you can stil ask it to play files and stuf. Its just the "Windows media player has encountered a problem and needss to close. wea re sorry for the inconvenience" box that coes up.

Odd.

Hang on....you have both installed?

Uninstall all of them, so that your system has no idea what WMP is at all.

erm..ok

It rolled back to 9 when I uninstalled 10.



Do i need to uninstall the windows media format runtime too?

Well just to be safe, id say you should remove anything to do with it and then reinstall. the WMP 10 installer should come with everything you'll need

Nope.

Its still crashing.

Rude word


*thinks about it*

Whats your sound card? Try getting the latest drivers (again, NOT from windows update)

Sound Blaster live 5.1

Im doing it now..

But why would that make a difference seeing as the other program can open them?

I'm currently getting severly arroused by mplayer on linux. Appart from not supporting menus on dvds, it's the best single media player i've ever seen (it plays everything, including real). I haven't tried the windows port, I don't know if it's as advanced or not, but it's worth looking at:

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/dload.html

but why is it wondows media player that keeps crashing?

I thought if it was a codec problem, that none of the players would work..

You are looking at the joys of Microsoft programming.

It could just be corrupt in a way that the other players can work round and WMP can't.

Who knows. It's still worth trying random stuff just in case. I learned long ago that using common sense is only good up to a point with computers.

They could well be corrupt, yes.

UCOF, do you keep up to date with windows update? If so, try looking in add/remove, click show updates and remove KB891122

Any other updates?

I havent got that installed



Head too squeezed to think.

Will post back here tomorrow after sleep.

:yawn:

Edit: ahhh. I love sleep.

Last night I realised thatnow nothing, will play anything except: Ultra player will play MP3s, and DivX will play .avi, nothing else runs though.

No mpegs, no wmv, neither on WmP, DivX or Ultraplayer.

Im 99% sure that the files arent corrupted.

Would reinstalling windows do anything? Not a format, just to repair the installation....except I now have SP2... and It wont let me do an SP1 install on top of the SP2 one.

Im going to get onto to Microsoft site and get asking some questions.