WMP screen is black but plays the audio track for videos OK.
I have WMP 11 installed in a new Dell XPS 210 running Win Home Preminum.
What to do or check out??
Thanx

Beemer;773928 Wrote:
WMP screen is black but plays the audio track for videos OK.
I have WMP 11 installed in a new Dell XPS 210 running Win Home
Preminum.
What to do or check out??
Thanx

Hi *Beemer* could you fill us in with a little more information? What
kind of video are talking about? A dvd?
If you download the VLC player at the following site you will find it
does almost any video, including DVD's
'VLC Media Player - Download'
(http://vlc-media-player.en.softonic.com/)
Let us know how you make out.


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dbknox

WMP won't play movie dvd's, .wmv sent as email attchment.
I'd kinda like to WMP up and running correctly rather than have
a stand alone program. I've checked the file associations but I
couldn't find a way to repair WMP.

"dbknox" wrote:


Beemer;773928 Wrote:
WMP screen is black but plays the audio track for videos OK.
I have WMP 11 installed in a new Dell XPS 210 running Win Home
Preminum.
What to do or check out??
Thanx

Hi *Beemer* could you fill us in with a little more information? What
kind of video are talking about? A dvd?
If you download the VLC player at the following site you will find it
does almost any video, including DVD's
'VLC Media Player - Download'
(http://vlc-media-player.en.softonic.com/)
Let us know how you make out.


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dbknox

I have this very problem as well, and it's also effecting WinDVD player.
I think messing with the MPEG-2 decoder messed things up now. I've been
trying to get help with this but my posts go unanswered. Here's a copy
from another place with pictures:

The problem is all I get is a blank screen, shown here with the white
backround and the black box of any video of any file type I play
using WMP
11
for example please view my screenshot:

http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/9696/80752975vt1.jpg

here is another screen shot of a different file showing same thing
but
different file and size of the video:

http://img58.imageshack.us/img58/8771/11xk0.jpg

Again, I can hear sound just fine but video seems to be turned off in
WMP
11. I've been trying and trying and hoping that there is something
simple
I'm
overlooking here to get it working again. This problem affects web
players
and programs that use WMP as well so if I can fix WMP, the other
programs
should be restored to normal.

Now I do use VLC for everything and made that the default player but I
still need WMP especially for the web. Hope we can figure this out,
thanks.


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Socomwiz

"Beemer" wrote:

WMP screen is black but plays the audio track for videos OK.
I have WMP 11 installed in a new Dell XPS 210 running Win Home Preminum.
What to do or check out??
Thanx


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