Video Playing Bother..

[Nanor]

I'll need to make this brief as I have to go soon.

Yesterday, while downloading a film, I went to open it and the thing crashed, this resulted in me having to end the process. I then went to open the thing externally, in winamp, but it showed up in black. I could hear the sound, but the screen was black. I thought the video was corrupted, so I thought no more of it.

However, I downloaded the Rise and Fall trailers but I get the same problem. What could be the problem?

Reputation for anyone who fixes the problem!!

 

[Twisto]

Sounds to me like you are missing the latest codec's.
Its probably best that one of our resident computer genies tells you where to find them.

 

[pHatBambi]

Drivers, Codecs, wrong media player?

To name but a few reasons.

 

[Macca]

Yup deffinatley sounds like a codec problem.

I would advise you go to Here and try downloading the latest Div X codecs.

What file extension were you trying to play?

 

[KillCrazy]

God I absolutely hate codecs. I had videos working perfectly on my computer until one install of a video converter messed things up.
I kept reinstalling divx and such but half of my videos would work, half of them wouldn't.

I found a compilation of numerous codecs such as divx, xvid etc that I installed after removing any other divx codecs or such first. It's called "The Codecs" and you can get it here. All my videos now work perfectly.
http://www.theorica.net/codecs.htm

 

[Nanor]

Nope, still not working..

I downloaded the latest codecs. When I start up a film, my computer goes really, really, really slow and I have to wait about 10 minutes to open task manager and end the process! Beh, please help!

 

[KillCrazy]

Hmm I haven't ever had that happen to me before. If it's a missing codec then usually I see windows media player try to download the codec (which I've never seen it succeed). My PC has never slowed down like your describing...so it could imply something else is wrong other than missing codecs.

Did you install anything before you noticed the problems that could relate to playing back video and/or audio? I'm hoping you will try a full virus scan and such aswell.

 

[Nanor]

Just downloaded a video. It was a video, I'm sure of that. I'll run a full virus scan in hope that fixes it..

 

[Ubiquitous]

You could try downloading VLC. If anything is going to play a video then that will.

 

[Nanor]

Got it. Doesn't work