Audio but no video

[Nick]

I am having a serious problem. I have had my computer
for years and have been continuously upgrading it. Since
going to XP Professional a year or so ago, I have had
nothing but problems with my Media player. I have an ATI
Radeon 7500 video card, 512M of RAM, a 1.3G hard drive,
WMP 9 series. The problem before was that videos would
play sometimes, other times they wouldn't. It was
intermittent and seemed completely random. Recently, I
suffered a lost hard drive and had to reinstall XP.
Within a week, I began suffering the same problems, only
now I get the audio all the time but no video. I can't
figure it out because just a few days age, it was
working. Also, sometimes it will show the first frame or
two of the video before going blank screen on me. Can
anyone help me out?

 

[Ian & Lorraine]

I am having a serious problem. I have had my computer
for years and have been continuously upgrading it. Since
going to XP Professional a year or so ago, I have had
nothing but problems with my Media player. I have an ATI
Radeon 7500 video card, 512M of RAM, a 1.3G hard drive,
WMP 9 series. The problem before was that videos would
play sometimes, other times they wouldn't. It was
intermittent and seemed completely random. Recently, I
suffered a lost hard drive and had to reinstall XP.
Within a week, I began suffering the same problems, only
now I get the audio all the time but no video. I can't
figure it out because just a few days age, it was
working. Also, sometimes it will show the first frame or
two of the video before going blank screen on me. Can
anyone help me out?

My response to someone else having this problem is pasted below. BTW, a
quick search of the postings in this newsgroup will reveal other answers to
your question, which is asked regularly (!) Don't be afraid to do a quick
search before asking a question.

"You may not have the codecs required by those video files, but it's easily
fixed. Download GSpot http://www.headbands.com/gspot/ and use it to open
one of your video files. It will tell you which codecs the file requires
and will tell you whether or not you have them installed on your system.
Then just do a google search for the codec(s) you need and install them."

HTH,

Ian.

 

[Nick]

Although that sounds simple and it sounds like I'm a
moron, I'm not. This solution doesn't work for me,
that's why I posted here. I can't see any type of video
file at all...mpeg, avi, wmv, nothing. Not even
streaming video off of the internet.

 

[Ian & Lorraine]

Although that sounds simple and it sounds like I'm a
moron, I'm not. This solution doesn't work for me,
that's why I posted here. I can't see any type of video
file at all...mpeg, avi, wmv, nothing. Not even
streaming video off of the internet.

In no way did I wish to imply that you are a moron- my apologies if it
seemed so. I have never experienced your particular problem with streaming
video, mainly because I don't make much use of it, so I'm at a loss to
assist you. With any luck another helpful individual will drop by shortly
to assist you.

Good luck,
Ian.

 

[Nancy]

-----Original Message-----
I am having a serious problem. I have had my computer
for years and have been continuously upgrading it. Since
going to XP Professional a year or so ago, I have had
nothing but problems with my Media player. I have an ATI
Radeon 7500 video card, 512M of RAM, a 1.3G hard drive,
WMP 9 series. The problem before was that videos would
play sometimes, other times they wouldn't. It was
intermittent and seemed completely random. Recently, I
suffered a lost hard drive and had to reinstall XP.
Within a week, I began suffering the same problems, only
now I get the audio all the time but no video. I can't
figure it out because just a few days age, it was
working. Also, sometimes it will show the first frame or
two of the video before going blank screen on me. Can
anyone help me out?
.
Hi, I have same problem, I got a new hard drive (old one

crashed after only one year) so I changed from Windows ME
to Windows XP home edition and upgraded from 28k to 56k
and I get the exact smae thing as you, It's making me
nuts, if you find out please email me with solution you
get if you would? I don't know where to look on my
computer to see if I have a 16 bit audio card built in, so
I'm also waiting for and answer on that. I have a hewlett
packard pavilion mx70. I cant find it anyplace, i.e in my
computer or microsoft info? Thanks Nancy