Windows Media Player video gets stuck in the first second but audio keeps playing

Shockeray · Sep 23, 2014

Recently when I have gone to play a video file on my computer (avi, mp4, and wmv) after WMP starts up, only the first second of video plays and then the image freezes and the audio continues. I have found that it will play normal if is is fully windowed, but it freezes in both windowed and full screen mode. What do I do? I am a YouTuber and being able to view my videos is pretty important.

System;
Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit
i7-4770k 4.0GHz OC
ASUS R9 270X
Mushkin STEALTH 2x8Gb 1600MHz
MSI Z87-G45 Mobo

shinerthetech · Sep 23, 2014

I would use VLC Player for your videos. In my experience, when WMP fails, VLC succeeds. Here's a link

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-windows.html

Shockeray · Sep 23, 2014

Thanks for the info, but normally when there is a problem I would like to fix it, not go around it.

shinerthetech · Sep 23, 2014

There are some codecs that WMP just has trouble with. If a car engine doesn't accept diesel fuel, and a mechanic tells you that you need a different engine or diesel fuel won't work... is this going around the problem?

Shockeray · Sep 23, 2014

No, but it was working last month on thousands of files and now it isn't.

JeckeL · Sep 23, 2014

Shockeray :

Do you install auto updates regularly? It may have updated itself and fudged up it's own codecs... Go to control panel, programs, click on "View installed updates" in the upper left corner, and see if some sort of update for WMP was installed. If so I would uninstall that, which effectively rolls it back to the original/previous version.

Shockeray · Sep 23, 2014

That's what I was thinking that is was, but there aren't any of the updates on that page that are for WMP.

JeckeL · Sep 24, 2014

Shockeray :

Can you update WMP to a newer version then? I'm not very familiar with WMP, I use VLC myself. WMP just doesn't come with all codecs required to play certain formats (.mkv and so-forth), but if yours is freezing with every kind of video format then there might be something else going on besides just codec issues. I would try to update it if you can

Shockeray · Sep 24, 2014

There isn't a newer version out.

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