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Hi folks

please can someone help as ive tried everything and run out of ideas, i have some video clips on my hard drive that ive had for ages, some are mpeg 1 some are wmv, i went to play them last night using wmp11 and some played fine, while others only played video with no sound, i tried to play them using the nero player and they played fine, i then unistalled wmp 11 and rolled back to wmp 10, tried it again but they still wouldnt play!!!, i then recorded a small video using my sony digital camera, i took it straight off the memeory card onto the pc and tried to play it , again no sound on wmp 11 but played fine using nero???, i downloaded a small program that checks for broken codecs but nothing was shown??, i really dont know what to do, can someone please please help me

P.s I did try one other thing, i put the video clip into nero vision and recoded again to mpeg1, only took about 30 seconds as its a small clip, i then opened it up in wmp11 and it played perfectly!!!!, i just dont want to do this with all my clips and i dont want to use nero all the time as i prefer wmp11

dont worry, all sorted now

hello - I am having the same issue!! Old mpeg files and new ones from my sony digital camera dont play in Windows Media player....they play fine with Quicktime and I-tunes. Was just curious how you got around it etc? I need WMP to play this videos in order to use Picasa web etc.

As you can imagine I am very frustrated on this issue so any help will be appreciated.

Thanks a lot.

Hi,

Try changing the priority assigned to " Windows Media Audio Codec" to 1 from:

Device Mangager -> Sound, video , and game controllers -> Audio Codec Properties.

Best of Luck
'Arnold'