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BigK8804
Hello,
Whenever I try to play a windows media video off of the internet, I hear the audio but I dont see the picture. I've reinstalled Windows Media, updated the flash player, and installed the Codec Installation Package for Windows Media Player 7.1 or later, but it still shows up the same.

Here's a picture of what it looks like...

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y114/suade1705/video.jpg.

Is there any thing else that I can do? Any advice would be greatly appreciated happy.gif
mipadi
My first reaction would be to assume a missing video codec, or codec incompatibility. This is the usual cause of audio playing but video being broken, or vice-versa. What file are you trying to play?
magicfann
reinstall
BigK8804
QUOTE(mipadi @ May 30 2006, 2:48 PM) *
My first reaction would be to assume a missing video codec, or codec incompatibility. This is the usual cause of audio playing but video being broken, or vice-versa. What file are you trying to play?



I'm not sure what kind of file it is, but it only happens when I'm trying to see a video on the internet. If I download it or get it from somewhere else it plays fine. Doesn't matter what site I go on, I can hear the audio but cant see anything but that green thing.
WolFii
your missing codecs for sure ^^. just go onlne and instal a codec pack .. i cant think of any off the top of my head, but yeh you are missing a certain codec.
BigK8804
hey thanx for the help i just had a virus on my comp and had to get a new hard drive so everything is good now lol biggrin.gif
mipadi
QUOTE(BigK8804 @ Jun 9 2006, 9:07 AM) *
hey thanx for the help i just had a virus on my comp and had to get a new hard drive so everything is good now lol biggrin.gif

One, that's overkill for "just a virus"; and two, there's really no way of knowing now what caused the problem, since you likely had to reinstall everything.
BigK8804
well i dont know wut it is eithr but my comp apparently overheated and i had to buy a new hard drive. when i took out the old hard drive it looked like someone put their lighter under it. but as u said it could probably have been a missing codec. thanx again for the halp. deeply appreciated. cool.gif
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