PC hungs when try to play video-tuts!

[archkre]

Maybe you can help me out with this:

I double click on an *.avi or *mpg or any film file and thewindows Media player tries to start playing the file and then my PC hungs!

Why could this be and how do I solve it?

Thank you

[Devin Johnston]

You could have a video that is using a codec that Windows media player doesn’t support. You would need to find out which codec the video is using and then go and find that codec so you can install it into windows.

[AJLynn]

WMP should play MPG by default, and should throw an error when you have an unsupported file. I won't claim to know the first thing about debugging this one, but as a tangent, if you install this:

 

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow

 

99% of Windows video playing software will be able to play 99% of video you get on the net (Divx, Xvid et al) and this program:

 

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

 

is an alternative to WMP that handles most formats and runs on most platforms (it's what I use in MacOSX).

[John Dollus]

Also, Gspot can help you identify which codec is used

http://www.headbands.com/gspot/

[archkre]

Last week I upgraded from

Nvidia GeForce 4600( which was running OK) to Nvidia GeForce 6200, but whe I try to play a movies file (mpg, avi,wmn,etc) thru any application( Windows Media Player, Quicktime, RealPlayer, etc.)

my computer hungs up!

What do I have to do ?

[AJLynn]

Got the newest drivers for the Geforce?