Windows Media Player Problem

[TankyTime]

I was wondering if anyone could help with this problem. I have windows media player 11 on windows xp. Just recently for some odd reason I cannot play video from websites. All I get is a dark green screen and audio. I can still play any video I download, but but some streaming video from websites. Anyone know of a solution?

[Altimus]

Re: Windows Media Player Problem

Are you using IE or Firefox as your browser?

[TankyTime]

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IE... some websites I don't have a problem. Some I do. I just get a green screen with audio. All of my video content on my hard drive plays fine.

[ODogg]

Re: Windows Media Player Problem

Go to www.divx.com and download divx codecs and that will probably fix it for you.

[TankyTime]

Re: Windows Media Player Problem

Go to www.divx.com and download divx codecs and that will probably fix it for you.

Do I need to remove anything prior to doing so? Or just download the new codecs?

[ODogg]

Re: Windows Media Player Problem

Do I need to remove anything prior to doing so? Or just download the new codecs?

You don't need to remove anything at all, just install Divx from that site.

[TankyTime]

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Worked great!! Thank you so much!!!

[ODogg]

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Worked great!! Thank you so much!!!

Hey no problem man, that program is so great I agree, it's helped me out so many times too! Glad to hear you got it fixed.

[TankyTime]

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Okay, problem. I downloaded it, and immediately went it fixed the problem. I went to a particular website that I had trouble viewing videos from and they worked. I layed down and took a nap, and come back to that website and now the media player gives me the green screen again! The only thing I did inbetween was play a video on my hard drive to make sure it still worked there as well. So what happened? Is this a setting problem somewhere?

[TankyTime]

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Still having problems... anyone? ODogg???

[ODogg]

Re: Windows Media Player Problem

Still having problems... anyone? ODogg???

Man that sucks, here's what I'd do if i were you. I'd uninstall Media Player and uninstall Divx. Then reinstall both of them, install Media Player first, and see if that fixes it. It sounds like there is some sort of corruption. Also, when you test playing a hard drive file, don't test the same file this time, try a different one. Maybe that file is changing something<?>

[TankyTime]

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Could this be related at all to Quick time? I think I began having these problems once Quick Time was installed. I could be wrong, but seems about the same time. Any correlation?

I might try to un install quick time and see what happens. I rarely use it, just needed it for something I was downloading at the time.

Funny because this morning media player was working, and then this evening it stopped again. I don't know.

[ODogg]

Re: Windows Media Player Problem

Could this be related at all to Quick time? I think I began having these problems once Quick Time was installed. I could be wrong, but seems about the same time. Any correlation?

I might try to un install quick time and see what happens. I rarely use it, just needed it for something I was downloading at the time.

Funny because this morning media player was working, and then this evening it stopped again. I don't know.

i'd say pretty doubtful but it wouldn't hurt to uninstall quicktime if you don't use it much.