WMP Crashes In IE

[Blyx]

Greetings,

I'm having problems with my Windows Media Player 8.0 playing video clips online. I have XP PRO on my system with the latest updates and such. When I go to preview a trailer or video clip, the site looks for the appropriate player, identifies my WMP as fine, begins connecting, and when the download is buffered, it starts playing the audio but there is no video stream. At this point the whole window freezes and when I click on the X to close the window the END TASK dialog box appears.

I've not added any new hardware or software, so I'm curious if some setting just got mess up a little...any help in pointing me in fixing direction would be greatly appreciated.

Best regards,
Blyx

 

[joegz]

You may not have the correct codec or may need to reinstall the codec. Do you know which codec the video file requires? joegz
"Sometimes you just need to find out what it's not first to figure out what it is."

 

[Blyx]

I'm not sure which codec I need. I went to the MS site and redownloaded the codecs update and added all the bonus stuff as well, but no go. It's just strange because it will start playing the audio, but no video shows up. I usually go to Movies.com and like to watch some trailers there or on Yahoo...but the same problem occurs in both places.

I've checked my msconfig and nothing there is out of the ordinary. I've checked the IE options and nothing there is out of the ordinary either...hmmm...weird.

 

[joegz]

To your knowledge is there a hardware decoder on your machine? I found this article but have no idea if you are using a Toshiba.

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q297/7/40.asp

joegz
"Sometimes you just need to find out what it's not first to figure out what it is."

 

[Blyx]

Joegz,

Thanks for your help in this matter. My system is a custom made unit:
Soyo Dragon Motherboard
1600+ AMD Processor
512 MB DDR PC2100
Built in Audio with latest drivers
120 GB HDD
Yamaha 20X10X40 CDRW
GeForce 3 Ti 200 64MB with 29.4.2 drivers
IE 6
WinXP PRO (legal)
Norton Systemworks 2002 and Norton Internet Security

Thanks for your assistance,
Blyx

 

[joegz]

Honestly this is a shot in the dark and really don't know if this will solve your problem or not but you may want to try installing the latest DivX Codec drivers which you will not get from Microsoft.

http://www.divx-digest.com/software/divxcodec.html

joegz
"Sometimes you just need to find out what it's not first to figure out what it is."