Help with media player. Vista?

Question

Hi guys last night i downloaded VLC player as i was haveing problems with the media player 11 there was no picture only sound. everything when well
with the VLC i had sound and picture on VLC. Today when i put the pc on to play a movie there was no picture only sound on the VLC any ideas
as to what is doing this theres 3 media players on my pc and none of them have picture when i play a movie.I also have a sony media soft ware on my pc for my walkman and it plays mp4 movies ok
Thanks for your help.

Answer 1

As the first poster stated and as i answered your question a couple of days ago this is your codec.



A film comes with compression and to read that film a de-compressor is needed. This is called a codec. The reason you can hear sound is because the film you have downloaded most likely has video encoded in DIVX and sound encoded in MP3. Your computer already has the sound codec so it needs the divx codec.



All the codecs you will ever need are included in this pack:

http://www.free-codecs.com/k_lite_Codec_Pack_download.htm



Download the basic codec pack and you will be able to watch your film in both windows media player 11 and VLC.



Its strange why you chose a best answer for your question last time when you said downloading VLC solved your problem when clearly it did not.

Answer 2

you might have to choose vlc or media player 11 as your primary media device. and it could be in conflict with other devices such as real player and others that you downloaded.. there could be a problem also with the size and format of your videos and music that you use so they need to be converted to a type that works for your chosen path

there are so many video and music converters out there to download freely but not always as free as they say and you need to register and even pay a price for the full versions that work fully in syncronicity

Answer 3

It is nothing to do with the media players - its your codecs.

Codecs are decoders for video formats and there are a lot of them around in common use.



Suggest you download "k-lite codec pack" - the basic or standard one will be enough. Do a google for it.

You will then find that your videos will play on all of the media players you have.

Answer 4

Will your disc rigidity load any Cd or dvd in any respect? if no longer you're turning out to be an blunders. examine the gadget supervisor and circulate right down to the dvd/cd rom rigidity and click on it, then it is going to drop right down to one merchandise with dvd ram as a popularity or something like that. If it has a yellow exclamation mark there is an blunders on your registry which you will have repaired. It happened to me to no longer some time past, and the guy on the pc save fixed it interior in straightforward terms some hours. yet you additionally can attempt updating the rigidity in case you double click the dvd ram concern and click on motive force and replace it.

Answer 5

I had the same problem with Vista and I contacted Support who were able to fix this problem within a matter of hours.