[jworld2]

Okay, so today I was trying to watch an avi file that I have and when I went to play it using VLC Media Player,it gave me the message, "VLC Media Player just crashed. Do you want to send a bug report to the development team?" I clicked no and VLC exited out. I then tried to play the avi in Windows Media Player and got an error message saying that the file could not be played and I also got the same message trying to play the file using Winamp.

Seeing that avi files didn't work, I also tried playing mpgs and wmvs, to no avail. I already had the Vista Codec pack installed, but I downloaded and installed the XP Codec pack to see if that helped anything, but it didn't. I then downloaded and installed k-lite codec pack, but that didn't help either.

I've never had trouble playing my video files before, but I hadn't played any of them for quite a while until today, and numerous changes have been made to the program files and other documents and such, so I don't know if any of those changes have affected my computer's ability to play my video files.

Anyway, it is now 1:00 in the morning for me, and I am at my wit's end. If any of you could please try and help me with this problem, I would be very grateful, because I have no idea where to go from here.

PS- Sorry this is so long.

 

[Stephen Bowles]

Have you installed a new audio driver recently?

Try going into your control panel and clicking on Sound, see if everything is working inside there.

 

[jworld2]

No, I don't think I've installed any audio drivers recently. All my audio plays fine. I can play mp3s and other audio formats just fine, it's just the video that I'm having trouble with.

BTW- I'm using windows xp in case that matters.

 

[jworld2]

Anybody have any help for me?

 

[Stephen Bowles]

> - Have you got multiple codec packs installed, or did you uninstall them all to install the XP Codec Pack. (Which I assume is this one : Download XP Codec Pack 2.5.1 – XP Codec Pack is one of the most complete codec packs).

> - Have you installed all Windows Updates?

> - Have you updated your graphics drivers and installed DirectX 9?

> - Have you tried uninstalling VLC and/or WMP and reinstalling?

> - You said you tried the file types avi, mpg, wmv, are these all different files? If you have more than one of each type and other video types, also try them.

> - Try renaming one of the video files and then play it (work around instead of deleting all video cache).

E.g., videoFile.avi to someRandomName.avi (same for other types).

> - Run Disk Cleanup and tick all checkbox to delete all temporary files, etc.

> - I do not have XP anymore so I cannot check this, but try looking around in this area : C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\

The Application Data folder will be hidden, you'll have to show hidden files from folder properties (you seem to know how to do this sort of thing).

There should be a Media Player folder, or something like that, in that directory. Inside should be a file name wmplibrary_v_0_12.db, try deleting that for now (leave in recycle bin just in case you need to bring it back).

 

[jworld2]

I had multiple codec packs installed, but when I installed k-lite codec pack, it pretty much uninstalled everything else because k-lite would install them.

I believe that windows is fully updated.

My graphics drivers haven't changed since the last time that I played any video files successfully, so that wouldn't be the problem.

Yes, all the files that I tried were different files, not just renamed.

I'll see if renaming the files does anything, but I don't think it will.

I'll also see if disk cleanup helps anything.