if had windows media player for a long time but ercently when i try to play
vidoes it crashes, iveplayed these vidoes b4 w/o any problems, i have all the
right codecs, but they jsut make WMP10 crash as well as winamp and power dvd.
any ideas?

Can anyone help? I have tried to install wmp11 and it stops at 16% everytime.
can i completly uninstall wmp10 and try again. also I have noticed in wmp10
I cant stream mpeg off the internet anymore in needs to be downloaded first.

Hi.  We have deployed WMP9 to our Windows 2000 Professional workstations are
also looking to install the MS Codec Installation Package for WMP7.1+.   I
have carried out some test installations and on comparing the installed
codec's (Control Panel > System > Hardware > Device ...

I'm just starting to play with WMP, so I thought the first thing I
should do is check the version I have.  But the WMP doesn't seem offer
the user any way to determine the version: there's no
Help/About/Version.  That seems strange to me for a tool aimed at the

My portable device has been installed and plugged into the computer.  The
device says that it is connected to the computer, but the computer still does
not recognize it.

Hi!  Would appreciate help...when trying to open a wmv file on Windows Media
Player 9 (I have Windows 2000 Professional), I receive the following pop-up:
"The file wmp.dll has a version number 9.0.0.3349 where 9.0.0.3344 was
expected.

I work in Digital Video Broadcasting, and am developing an MPEG content
creation system.  As part of the tests I have created five x 60 second long
MPEG Variable Bitrate files.  These videos contain a static image, therefore
every MPEG sequence is identical.  WMP does display 1 ...

Is there a switch that will cause Windows Media Player to start up in full
screen mode when playing an avi file.
TIA
Chris

Hello. I can't get my Windows Media Player version 6 to upgrade to version 9.
Everytime I download WMP 9 and install it, I get "Windows Media player
cannot find any updates. Please try again later."
I'm  using Windows 2000.

Whenever I try to stream anything that uses WMP to stream, nothing happens
at all.  WMP doesn't even buffer or anything and it just stops there...I
press the play button and it just stops and does nothing at all, no buffering
whatsoever.  This happens on every site that uses WMP ...

When Microsoft is introducing so many enhancements in the new versions of
Windows Media Player (especially 10 and 11), why does it not include a codec
to play DVDs and .avi files?
It is cumbersome to find codecs from various sites. And also, if there is a

I have a couple of albums that have the wrong year set in the library. When I
right click then select edit and type in a new year, it then saves the value
with year minus 1.
E.g. - right click enter 1970 into field and hit enter, field now shows 1969.

OK, I've been reading months worths of problems in this newsgroup, but
can't seem to find a fix for my problem.
Suddenly, WMP 10 will not play any video clips from my local drive. I
was always able to click the file in Explorer, and WMP would open and

I just installed windows media player 11 on my system that runs windows xp.
Well, I was trying to play some streaming movies in wmp11. Everything is
good. But there is one problem. WMP11 streams MMS links but the skip, pause
options are disabled. I mean I used WMP10 earlier and I ...

I was wondeirng if anyone could help me with a problem I am having playing
an AVI file I downloaded.
--What is the file format? AVI
--What version of WMP are you using?  WMP10 on Win XP  getting error “You've