On Mar 30, 8:08*am, "Arny Krueger" wrote:

A quick shotgun approach might be to install a large scale collection of
encoders and decoders such as the "K-Lite Mega Codec Pack" which is a free
download and IME remarkably effective as a codec problem solver despite the
fact that it is more like using a shotgun to solve the problem, than to use
a rifle which would be my preference.


The thing is, I've never had this problem before - in 98, 98SE, XP
Home, XP Media Center - which I understand is supposed to be plagued
with issues. It wasn't an issue on previous installs of this same XP
Pro disc that came with the machine. I've always found WMP to be
dependable. I've now done a fresh install with the same XP Pro disc
and it's doing it again.

What I'm finding is if I bring up WMP first thing after a reboot, it
appears to behave normally for a while. Plays .mp3, .wav,
DV .avi, .mpg. However, at some point it starts doing it
spontaneously. In fact I found it just did it playing through a
playlist of 44.1 16 bit .wav files. Played through about the first 3
okay, after transitioning to the 4th track, the problem developed.

I also find that if it's showing up in WMP it also shows up in Kmedia
player and in Pinnacle Studio but *not* in Vegas Pro 8, Virtualdub or
Soundforge.