Media Player crash

[Needa916]

After SP1 on XP, everything works perfect, except Media Player. Everytime I open an mpeg or avi or any other Windows media (other than audio), the screen drops to 8-bit color, and I get a message: "windows has recovered from a serious application failure, please save your work and restart Windows".

This has happened each time I have installed XP, and upgraded to SP1. Anyone else have this problem?

Also, I wouldn't mind alternitive media players, except no matter how many times I do the file associations with the new player, Windows Media player keeps associating the files back to itself.

What has changed since it worked has been my motherboard. I got a new mobo (and fresh XP install), and since then Media player won't work.

[thcdru2k]

just don't load up wmp anymore, as long as you don't load it up, and remove it from your startup, the file associations shouldn't revert back to wmp. for an all around player, check out winamp3.

[Matthyahuw]

I've been having similar issues sine I went with WMP9 and SP1...WMP crashes all the time on vids (not sound), and I have other crashes outside of WMP since SP1...gonna reformat soon and kill SP1...

[thcdru2k]

there is a new wmp beta going around, newer than the sp1 one, give it a try. check out betanews.com

[LORD-eX-Bu]

I downloaded it but for some reason I couldn't "fast forward" on video clips.

[thcdru2k]

dats weird, do you mean divx files? when u fast forward with those you gotta give it like five seconds.

[LORD-eX-Bu]

Nah, I mean the slider was stuck in the begining. It did not move at all and whenever I tried to click on it it restarted the clip. With DiVX files I never had delay but I just couldn't FF with that beta.

[Cereal-Killer]

Originally posted by |TX|-LORD-EX-BU
Nah, I mean the slider was stuck in the begining. It did not move at all and whenever I tried to click on it it restarted the clip. With DiVX files I never had delay but I just couldn't FF with that beta.

I have the same problem with WMP9 (v2799). I hope they get that fixed soon.

[netviper13]

I had that problem when I was running WMP9. The only way to fix it that I know of other than uninstalling is to stop the clip after the first time you play it, then play it again.

In other words, launch the file, let it play for like 5 seconds, stop it, and then play it again. Worked for me at least.

[Cereal-Killer]

Originally posted by netviper13
In other words, launch the file, let it play for like 5 seconds, stop it, and then play it again. Worked for me at least.

Hey, works for me too! Thanks :)

[LORD-eX-Bu]

I just uninstalled it and put it back on. Works fine now. I probably had the virus scanner going when I installed it.

[Needa916]

It was the Movie Maker update on Windows Update that was crashing my *feces, excrement, crap*. :mad:

I re-loaded XP agian (since I messed up a bunch of things trying to get UT2003 to run smoothly), and just installed all the critical updates including SP1, no more lockups.

Ya WMP9 Beta won't let me fast forward or do anything, so I didn't load it this time. Is it really that much better than the one that came with XP? Also, how to enable DVD playback in media player? :D

Edit, I didn't know they blocked certain words.

[thcdru2k]

to get dvd on wmp you need a dvd decoder, which is installed with a dvd program such as windvd, powerdvd, nvdvd, and even free dvd players.

wmp9 offers support for the new corona technology for streaming videos, just higher quality streaming with surround sound. not much stuff out there, so no its not that much better.

[Needa916]

Never mind on the Movie Maker update on Windows. It was actually the 30.87 (not sure) WHQL drivers that was crashing my $h1t. I reloaded the nVidia drivers from their site 30.82 I think, and everything is fine. Funny how the Windows Update makes your system crash. :rolleyes: