Media Player problem

[erick smith]

Greetings!

I hope that this is the right forum for this post (if not
please advise and I will re-direct accordingly).

After building a new PC at work every time I run an .avi
or stream from web I get the first frame or two and the
video freezes although the audio track plays. At this
point the entire Media Player interface becomes
unresponsive although I can usually click the Close
button which then closes the interface. The audio will
continue to play as the Media Player process did not
terminate when the interface closed. If I allw to process
to continue Media Player will play the entire audio track
while the process slowly increases it's memory
consumption for the duration of the track.

IF I kill the process using task manager or allow the
track to play to the end the final result is that the OS
(XP Pro, SP2, ALL avalable patches applied) hangs. No
task manager, no keyboard activity, no event log entry.

This ocurred in Media Player 9 and I upgraded to 10 in
the hopes that it might fix the issue which it did not.

My pc is built with the following components:
A-Bit NF7-S2 motherboard (Nforce 2 nic & sound)
AMD Athlon XP 2500+
A-Bit ATI 9600 video card
512 MB PC3200 ram

I have re-installed Media Player 10 twice now and there
has been so much installed since the upgrade to 9 that I
would be better off with a format and re-install if I had
to try the system restore method.

I am at my wit's end here and hope that someone might
have an approach that I have not considered or tried to
date.

Thanks in advance for any input provided.

Regards,

Erick

 

[Kevin]

It has been my experience that .avi files do not run well on Windows Media
Player. I use Divx to play .avi files and it works fine.

 

[Guest]

I have the same problem as you describe but not limited to .avi but all kinds
of video files. I would be very eager to learn how to resolve that issue.
Also, it happens when I use DivX player, altough not that frequently.
thanks.