Corrupted Media Player 10

[Don Burnette]

Hey all,

I posted the below over on the Media Player newsgroup, thought I would post
here as well, as it gets a lot more traffic, in case someone here might have
some ideas.

"Today, I was ripping some music from a cd, and media player 10 froze up,
and
my computer locked up.
I had to do a power down and power up.

Afterwards, Media Player tells me that it can't play a file, ie mp3 or wma.
It will play directly from an audio cd.
However, when trying to play a file from the hard drive, I get a message
"Windows Media Player cannot play the file. The Player might not support the
file type or might not support the codec that was used to compress the
file."

I tried downloading and installing Media Player 10 again, with same result.

I used system restore, and successfully restored my system to a checkpoint
from yesterday, however still get the same error message when trying to play
a file from my hard drive. So far I have tried mp3's and wma's, and get the
error on both of them.

Any ideas on what I could do to repair Media Player 10 would be greatly
appreciated."


Thanks,


Don Burnette

 

[Jerry]

Downloading Windows Media Player 10 from the Microsoft downlaod site gets
version 10.0.00.3802

WMP10-KB892313 updates to version 3901
WMP10-KB888656 updates to version 3923
WMP10-KB911565 updates to version 3990
WMP10-KB912452 updates to version 3993
WMP10-KB911565-V2 updates to version 4019

After you downloaded WMP10 - did you perform the updates?

 

[Don Burnette]

Yes, thanks Jerry.
I downloaded, installed, then went to windows update and updated Media
Player 10.
It just will not play files from the hard drive, ie mp3 and wma. No problem
playing audio from cd's or movies from dvd's.
Very strange...

Don

 

[Don Burnette]

Update:

Got it fixed.
Through media players help, I checked under tools , options, devices in
media player, then double clicked on speakers. It somehow had gotten changed
to use " default direct sound device", rather than my sb audigy2 zs - I made
the change to the audigy2 zs, and all is well again!

Don't know how it had gotten changed to the default direct sound device,
must have had something to do with the system freeze/crash...


Don Burnette