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Old 04-22-2007, 05:00 PM   #1 (permalink)
 
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Why is it every time I try and play a video with Windows Media Player 9, they look all weird and I cannot see anything. I figure I need some different codec or something but how do i get that? I cannot watch any .wmv at gamespot or anywhere. Thanks for the help.
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try updating to WMP10, that might solve the problem because of the codecs or whatever
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I thought of that and microsoft won't let you even activate media player 10 without calling home which I do not want to do. Can't I just download some kind of codec for it? I dl several different codec packs including k-lite but they have windows media player classic which doesn't seem to be playing any .wmv anymore properly. Any ideas what I can download??
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uninstall and reinstall wmplayer
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It's your floppy drive.
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Try the k-lite codec pack. Its the only thing i installed since I formatted a while ago. No problems since.

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install your video drivers
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