As a software engineer this is just straight out of the 'the rest of the world can do it right, so why can't Microsoft' department. I 'up'graded to Vista 64 last week, and Windows Media Player 11, under Vista, will not play any of my DVDs. It suggests checking my screen resolution (whut?), and offers a link to a help page, which offers the suggestions I would expect (codec, video drivers,...

At some point, my system started having problems with .MPG and .MPEG files. DreamScene "stumbles". The video plays normal for about 2 seconds, then speeds up, then OK for 2 seconds, then speeds up, on and on. Dreamscene videos play fine in WMP and other players. As for other MPG/MPEG files: 1. Some videos play too fast in WMP, some play fine. 2. Some videos play too fast in GSpot, some...

I have an mp3 player attached to my XP laptop and wanted to play audio tracks from a book thru my laptop. Musicjukebox seems to do it ok but when I tried to use my windows media player to open and play the WMA files it doesn't do it. No error messages - just that when I click open it shows the file folder on the mp3 player but shows nothing inside it to open. Windows Media player is set...

I have an audio book on my mp3 player. There are about 70 tracks in a folder and every one has a WMA extension. I can listen to it on my MP3 player and then I tried to hook the MP3 to my pc. The hardware is recognized and when I try to use Windows Media Player to play the tracks I have a problem. I go to open and then to storage device and find the folder that contains all the tracks. ...

Tryine to download from SpiralFrog, I get a notice that there is a WMP problem with DRM management that will not let me load DRM protected tracks from any source. When I go to the referred Microsoft site, the button to "upgrade" security is greyed out. Help!! This has got to be a common problem, but can't find it addressed when i search this forum.

Awhile back I installed Cucsoft Zune DVD ripper. Ever since then WMP crashes anytime I attempt to play an .avi. What's worse, anytime that I browse to a folder that has .avi's in it and thumbnail previews are enabled, Explorer crashes and I get an error message indicating that "COM Surrogate has closed" and Data Execution Prevention has closed the COM Surrogate. I've since uninstalled Cucusoft,...

Sony's site, at the compability board writes that the above Sony model is compatible with MS Vista 32 bit. The problem is that IS NOT. The anousment from MS, to Sony, is that the specific model has drivers in Vista. Any help...?? I cannot find drivers in Sony's site, because..... its not nessecery, according Sony..!! HELP PLEASE

I am looking for a website where I can download music videos in .WMV to my computer. Does anyone know of a website?

Hi, I cannot open the stream from the windows media player 11, i mean the live video from the internet like CNN Video, wwe,com videos. France 24 english version, and so on, Does anyone know how to fix this issue ? I need your help ! Thanks --

I have Vista Ultimate. I have put a slide show of my pictures on as a screen saver. They are all coming up in black and white. How can I change that? Thank you. Ginny

I'm playing an AVI file using My media player with a seperate subtitle .srt track and it all works fine, only the the subtitles are all about 15 seconds too late and don't match up. Is there a way to adjust this on the player. I also tried VLC (which does) but it didn't seem to make a difference. Thanking you in advance...

Hi I have a new PC with Windows Vista Home Premium. I also have a new JVC everio GZ MG 330 camcorder. This came with its own software for downloading from the camera, editing, and supposedly creating DVDs. I have downloaded and edited my clips into a movie but it refuses to burn onto DVD. I am chasing this up with the software people. However my question is, when I tried to use Movie Maker...

Hi there, I just upgraded to Media Player 11. I have XP. I downloaded some AVI files and they play, but sound only. Perfect sound, just no picture. They automatically open in WMP just as they should, and I tried right-clicking menus to switch views, but the view is at 100% full screen mode. I get sound, and I get visualizations (like bars and waves, alchemy, etc) instead of the actual...

I had some pictures on my USB that automatically popped up on a friend's Vista computer when i connected the USB. I hope they were not saved on her temp folder since those were not the the files I was trying to open. I just pulled the USB right out without clicking on the download prompt. Are the pictures already saved on the computer? Any help is appreciated! --

hi, I'm on windows ultimate.. I need to burn a DATA DVD.. for some reason this is proving a challenge.. you can't do it w/WMC, as it doesn't afford possibility of browsing to folders you want to burn.. my roxio 10 isn't letting me do it either (when I go to "Data and Backup" I get to a window where under "Data Disc" it says, "Easily create and bun a data CD or DVD or save a disc image to your...

have seen many software items recommended for this, but it's confusing to know what is most compatible for Vista...any help is appreciated. Charlie

I am having problems running video streams on certain sites. When I go to You Tube, I have no problem playing video. When I attempt to replay a race video at at racing site, it opens media, connects to media, then says ready and nothing plays on the screen. I have tried everything I can think of. Anyone have any suggestions? Is it a problem with the site since I can play video on other...

Hello there, I'm on Windows Vista home premium. I'm trying to record audio onto Adobe Audition. Initially when the settings on my laptop were on recording microphone I could record on Audition through my microphone. But I also needed to record output from my laptop as well, so changed the settings to "stereo mix". However, there's times when I need to record through the line in microphone....

Hi does anyone know how to connect my ACER notebook 5920 to my hifi to record my old cassettes onto cd,as i dont want to chuck them out, Please not too much tech detail,just plain english please

I am trying to play music, but the Win Vista could not recognize the speakers. I`ve installed all the drivers: board, sound card, video, etc. but nothing happed.. somebody could help me? -- Abj