Suddenly not able to play .avi files

[notmike]

I was able to play .avi files (captured from dv camera) just fine for years,
but when I went to start a project they don't play correctly. The video
stutters, sound doesn't play well, and it WMP ussually hangs up. This
problem is present in every program I have to play .avi (premiere, QT,
winamp, etc.).
I'm not sure what I did, but I know I removed a canon zoom browser from my
computer, and I have a vague memory of recently updating WMP or updating the
codecs on it.

I currently run WINXP SP2, and have windows medial player 10.
Any help would be appreciated, as I have a large amount of video to edit.
thanks in advance.

[notmike]

I saw another post that said to use system restore, I went as far back as I
could.
When it loaded, it said I didn't have enough space on my windows hard drive
(it said I had 65 mb) then it said it wouldn't restore to that point.
Then when everything was done loading, I had 1.5 gb free, and then I
couldn't restore anymore at all.
just giving an update.

"notmike" wrote:

> I was able to play .avi files (captured from dv camera) just fine for years,
> but when I went to start a project they don't play correctly. The video
> stutters, sound doesn't play well, and it WMP ussually hangs up. This
> problem is present in every program I have to play .avi (premiere, QT,
> winamp, etc.).
> I'm not sure what I did, but I know I removed a canon zoom browser from my
> computer, and I have a vague memory of recently updating WMP or updating the
> codecs on it.
>
> I currently run WINXP SP2, and have windows medial player 10.
> Any help would be appreciated, as I have a large amount of video to edit.
> thanks in advance.

[Rehan]

Close all programs and run this batch file:
http://www.rehanfx.org/utils/reregdlls.bat

Hope this will fix your problem. Other things to try are:

1. Reinstall latest runtime of DirectX: full install:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=3F2828FA-0E3C-4837-AFC0-6C67DCAA54BF&displaylang=en
(http://tinyurl.com/9myu5)

2. (Re)install Windows Media Encoder
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/9series/encoder/default.aspx

Reboot as required. If the above two steps do not work, try following:

If even the above attempts don't help then the only option seems to
reinstall Service Pack 2 (SP2).
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=049C9DBE-3B8E-4F30-8245-9E368D3CDB5A&displaylang=en
(http://tinyurl.com/5bobl)


--
Rehan
MS MVP -- Digital Media
www.rehanfx.org - get transitions and effects for Windows Movie Maker



"notmike" > wrote in message
...
> I saw another post that said to use system restore, I went as far back as
> I
> could.
> When it loaded, it said I didn't have enough space on my windows hard
> drive
> (it said I had 65 mb) then it said it wouldn't restore to that point.
> Then when everything was done loading, I had 1.5 gb free, and then I
> couldn't restore anymore at all.
> just giving an update.
>
> "notmike" wrote:
>
>> I was able to play .avi files (captured from dv camera) just fine for
>> years,
>> but when I went to start a project they don't play correctly. The video
>> stutters, sound doesn't play well, and it WMP ussually hangs up. This
>> problem is present in every program I have to play .avi (premiere, QT,
>> winamp, etc.).
>> I'm not sure what I did, but I know I removed a canon zoom browser from
>> my
>> computer, and I have a vague memory of recently updating WMP or updating
>> the
>> codecs on it.
>>
>> I currently run WINXP SP2, and have windows medial player 10.
>> Any help would be appreciated, as I have a large amount of video to edit.
>> thanks in advance.

[notmike]

Thanks for the tips,

Unfortuntaely none of them worked.

Will keep looking though.

"Rehan" wrote:

> Close all programs and run this batch file:
> http://www.rehanfx.org/utils/reregdlls.bat
>
> Hope this will fix your problem. Other things to try are:
>
> 1. Reinstall latest runtime of DirectX: full install:
> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=3F2828FA-0E3C-4837-AFC0-6C67DCAA54BF&displaylang=en
> (http://tinyurl.com/9myu5)
>
> 2. (Re)install Windows Media Encoder
> http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/9series/encoder/default.aspx
>
> Reboot as required. If the above two steps do not work, try following:
>
> If even the above attempts don't help then the only option seems to
> reinstall Service Pack 2 (SP2).
> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=049C9DBE-3B8E-4F30-8245-9E368D3CDB5A&displaylang=en
> (http://tinyurl.com/5bobl)
>
>
> --
> Rehan
> MS MVP -- Digital Media
> www.rehanfx.org - get transitions and effects for Windows Movie Maker
>
>
>
> "notmike" > wrote in message
> ...
> > I saw another post that said to use system restore, I went as far back as
> > I
> > could.
> > When it loaded, it said I didn't have enough space on my windows hard
> > drive
> > (it said I had 65 mb) then it said it wouldn't restore to that point.
> > Then when everything was done loading, I had 1.5 gb free, and then I
> > couldn't restore anymore at all.
> > just giving an update.
> >
> > "notmike" wrote:
> >
> >> I was able to play .avi files (captured from dv camera) just fine for
> >> years,
> >> but when I went to start a project they don't play correctly. The video
> >> stutters, sound doesn't play well, and it WMP ussually hangs up. This
> >> problem is present in every program I have to play .avi (premiere, QT,
> >> winamp, etc.).
> >> I'm not sure what I did, but I know I removed a canon zoom browser from
> >> my
> >> computer, and I have a vague memory of recently updating WMP or updating
> >> the
> >> codecs on it.
> >>
> >> I currently run WINXP SP2, and have windows medial player 10.
> >> Any help would be appreciated, as I have a large amount of video to edit.
> >> thanks in advance.
>
>
>

[notmike]

ok, i reinstalled some programs i had removed around the time the trouble
started, i tried playing a video got the same problem, closed the video
and got this error message

Media event sink window:wmplayer.exe appliation error

the instruction at "0x07672700" referenced memory at "0x08e68c28", the
memory could not be "read".
click ok to terminiate the program.

Not sure if thats part of the problem, a new problem or a fluke.

-nm

"notmike" wrote:

> Thanks for the tips,
>
> Unfortuntaely none of them worked.
>
> Will keep looking though.
>
> "Rehan" wrote:
>
> > Close all programs and run this batch file:
> > http://www.rehanfx.org/utils/reregdlls.bat
> >
> > Hope this will fix your problem. Other things to try are:
> >
> > 1. Reinstall latest runtime of DirectX: full install:
> > http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=3F2828FA-0E3C-4837-AFC0-6C67DCAA54BF&displaylang=en
> > (http://tinyurl.com/9myu5)
> >
> > 2. (Re)install Windows Media Encoder
> > http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/9series/encoder/default.aspx
> >
> > Reboot as required. If the above two steps do not work, try following:
> >
> > If even the above attempts don't help then the only option seems to
> > reinstall Service Pack 2 (SP2).
> > http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=049C9DBE-3B8E-4F30-8245-9E368D3CDB5A&displaylang=en
> > (http://tinyurl.com/5bobl)
> >
> >
> > --
> > Rehan
> > MS MVP -- Digital Media
> > www.rehanfx.org - get transitions and effects for Windows Movie Maker
> >
> >
> >
> > "notmike" > wrote in message
> > ...
> > > I saw another post that said to use system restore, I went as far back as
> > > I
> > > could.
> > > When it loaded, it said I didn't have enough space on my windows hard
> > > drive
> > > (it said I had 65 mb) then it said it wouldn't restore to that point.
> > > Then when everything was done loading, I had 1.5 gb free, and then I
> > > couldn't restore anymore at all.
> > > just giving an update.
> > >
> > > "notmike" wrote:
> > >
> > >> I was able to play .avi files (captured from dv camera) just fine for
> > >> years,
> > >> but when I went to start a project they don't play correctly. The video
> > >> stutters, sound doesn't play well, and it WMP ussually hangs up. This
> > >> problem is present in every program I have to play .avi (premiere, QT,
> > >> winamp, etc.).
> > >> I'm not sure what I did, but I know I removed a canon zoom browser from
> > >> my
> > >> computer, and I have a vague memory of recently updating WMP or updating
> > >> the
> > >> codecs on it.
> > >>
> > >> I currently run WINXP SP2, and have windows medial player 10.
> > >> Any help would be appreciated, as I have a large amount of video to edit.
> > >> thanks in advance.
> >
> >
> >