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Media Player on WIN2K PRO won't play .wav, .avi or .mpg - but will play .wmv
Window Media Player ver. 9 on WIN2K PRO won't play .wav, .avi or .mpg - but will play .wmv. On the same computer I have software like VirtualDub or Premiere 6.5 that will play almost anything. WMP is configured properly and all the codecs had been reinstalled more than once. I've also made roll backs more than once to the previous WMP 6.4 version - but n o t h i n g helped. I'll appreciate any serious advise on the subject.
Thanks
Nitzan - Heftziba
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Nitzan - Heftziba
once you have done that try and play media such as wave, avi etc with vlc media player :
www.videolan.org/vlc/
Also you can get ffdshow :)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow
That should help you out :)
www.videolan.org/vlc/
Also you can get ffdshow :)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow
That should help you out :)
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When I delete the Media Player files they always keep c o m i n g b a c k and win2k won't let me delete the WMP
folder - so I can't follow the recomendation unless I first uninstall WMP completely.
Nitzan - Heftziba
folder - so I can't follow the recomendation unless I first uninstall WMP completely.
Nitzan - Heftziba
That is what I said, Un install it then delete the folder :)
Then install the latest version of direct x, then re install windows media player, then re install any codecs you require such as xvid, divx etc.
xvid :
http://www.xvidmovies.com/codec/
divx :
http://www.divxmovies.com/codec/
Make sure you download the latest version of windows media player for windows 2000 and also would be an idea to update windows 2000 to SP4
Hope this helps :)
Then install the latest version of direct x, then re install windows media player, then re install any codecs you require such as xvid, divx etc.
xvid :
http://www.xvidmovies.com/codec/
divx :
http://www.divxmovies.com/codec/
Make sure you download the latest version of windows media player for windows 2000 and also would be an idea to update windows 2000 to SP4
Hope this helps :)
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Sorry, maybe I was unclear - I've previosly uninstalled ver.9 and rolled back to the basic ver. 6.4, which doesn't have an unistall function anymore. Therefore, it is impossible to delete the Windows Media Player folder even when it is temporarily empty - it keeps telling me that there has been a sharing violation. And anyway, after a few seconds the files are created back in the folder no matter how many times I delete them.
Nitzan - Heftziba
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yes. Try with WMP 10.
Hello heftziba,
Did you try with my comment?
BR Dushan
Did you try with my comment?
BR Dushan
I also suggest you get the latest version of windows media player ( As they obviously fixed bugs etc in it ) Also what SP of 2000 are you using, I suggest you get SP 4 :) If you havent already got it.
Also get the latest graphics card drivers :)