windows media player 10

Does anyone know why I can hear a video,but I can't see it.I just installed a new version of windows xp,and a little while later the videos stopped showing.Thank you!

 

Well, I don't know which videos you are trying to play, but I'm guessing it's something you downloaded. Which in most cases means you need a diffrent codec. One which MS doesn't supply.

You most likely need to install xvid/divx because it sounds like your missing the needed video codecs. Although it may not be xvid, it could be a diffrent codec too.

 

I'm trying to play downloaded videos I never had a problem before,how do I download the codecs?I have the divx player,but I would like to keep using the media player.Thanx!

 

I had this problem for a bit but since WMP doesn't play OGM files by defualt I installed FFDshow (http://ffdshow.sourceforge.net/tikiwiki/tiki-view_articles.php), Lazy mans MKV (http://ld-anime.faireal.net/guide/mkv-eng), and OGGDS (splitter)(http://tobias.everwicked.com/oggds.htm) (all plugin kinda things for WMP) After i installed em i gave it another spin with downloaded video files and it worked, I would gone with xvid/divx but i wasn't sure if it played ogm's.

 

Kegan's pretty much named off all the codecs you might need. Except for xvid. Which you may need. http://nic.dnsalias.com/xvid.html

That's all the formats you see online usually. Besides from some very rare cases, but if it's not one of these you'd have to give more info about the video file you're trying to play.