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I have noticed this same problem and i have found that if you start the
video and then press CNTRl - ALT - DLT and when it brings up the box
with the 5 or 6 options on it just press cancel and the video appears
just fine. this is very weird!
Terry wrote:
> *I am having the same problem. Widnows Media Player has a
> black screen for all types of files: WMF, MPEG, realmedia,
> quicktime, etc. Nothing shows a picture.
> This started about 2 weeks ago.
> Anyone have an idea?
>
> I tried the WMP help page but the link to wmptest doesn't
> work.[vbcol=seagreen]
> >-----Original Message-----
> >AVI files I presume? And the answer is codecs.
> >
> >An uncompressed AVI file can happily be played by Windows[/vbcol]
> Media Player[vbcol=seagreen]
> >without any additional codecs. However it takes up[/vbcol]
> approximately 12GB of[vbcol=seagreen]
> >drive space per hour of footage. Hence 99% of all AVI[/vbcol]
> files, found online[vbcol=seagreen]
> >are compressed. To play these files, you need to know[/vbcol]
> with which codec the[vbcol=seagreen]
> >file was compressed, download and install that codec and[/vbcol]
> then the file will[vbcol=seagreen]
> >play.
> >
> >To discover which codec your AVI file was compressed[/vbcol]
> with, download and[vbcol=seagreen]
> >install G-Spot Codec Identifier from[/vbcol]
> http://www.headbands.com/gspot/[vbcol=seagreen]
> >
> >Once you've found out which codec was used, you'll then[/vbcol]
> have to download and[vbcol=seagreen]
> >install it. The two most popular are xVid and DIVx.
> >--
> >Cari
> >MS-MVP Windows Technologies - Printing/Imaging/Hardware
> >www.coribright.com
> >
> >
> >
> >"marc" <marccwy@msn.com> wrote in message
> >news:13ba201c4444c$67eff980$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> >
> >
> >.
> >[/vbcol] *
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joshman1204
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