Help with Windows Media Player 11

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  1. TarekZ

    TarekZ Member

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    I hope that I'm posting in the right section...

    My problem is simple: when I try to play a video in Windows Media Player 11, all I see is a small, purple box. I am able to hear the audio, but not the picture. I thought that this might be a codec problem, but I downloaded a complete codec pack and that didn't solve the problem.

    Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.

    Thanks,
    Tarek
     
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    Get the K Lite Mega Codec pack.

    Try VLC player(freeware). It's less bloated that WMP, and was very recently updated.
     
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    I went ahead and downloaded the K Lite Mega Codec pack, but it didn't change anything. I then dled the VLC player, and that did indeed play my videos. Thanks for that.

    Is there perhaps any other solution that would get WMP to function properly?
     
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    Typically, i don't WMP for the simple fact it's a lunky bloated media player. If the K-Lite pack didn't solve your issue i would venture to say that the file may be incompatible with WMP.

    I almost strictly use VLC for movie/video viewing. It's a great little program.
     
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