windows media player sound, but no video

[Guest]

when I try to play a movie preview with either media player 9 or 10, I get
good audio but a black video window... the media seems to be mpeg-4 video v3
if that helps any... PLEASE Help!!! I'm sure it's operator error of some
sort on my end!

 

[Graham Hughes]

It may be you don't have the codec to play it properly or can you normally
see viudeos on this monitor, as if overlay is not supported on the monitor
you are using you will also ge this result.

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Graham Hughes
MVP Digital Media
www.myvideoproblems.co.uk
www.dvds2treasure.com
www.simplydv.com

 

[Guest]

I suspected a codec problem from reading the help text... but I don't get
how to check it... some previews (few) do play. I'm using a panasonic CF-18
tablet pc... any way to know what I need to do? Thak you for your first
post, I feel I'm close to an answere,
Chris

 

[Graham Hughes]

Use something like GSpot to tell you what the codec is that you need and
then google search. Try to just install the one codec, don't go for a codec
pack.
http://www.myvideoproblems.com/Web Pages/UsefulProgrammes.htm

--
Graham Hughes
MVP Digital Media
www.myvideoproblems.co.uk
www.dvds2treasure.com
www.simplydv.com

 

[Guest]

Graham, Thank you for your Gspot program. I think I'm close but still having
trouble. I ran gspot on a desktop saved, video previw with a ".wmv"
extention. Gspot gave me a display; "Direct Show claims to be able to play
the file" using Mpeg 43 Decoder DMO and Video Renderer. I still have sound
but no video... What else might I try???
Thanks so much for your help with this,
Chris

 

[hexanir]

beleive it or not, try playing it in VirtualDub ( http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/virtualdub/VirtualDub-1.6.7.zip?download ) and uncheck Options->Allow video overlays .... I have just found out that it's the only way I can play movie on my newly acquired old notebook with video card which doesn't know overlays, I am currently trying to find other player, but for the time being VirtualDub is the only way for me, maybe it can help you... cause in other players, I get sound, but no video , regardless of what decoder settings with codec I choose.

update: now I have out that VLC player ( http://videolan.org/vlc/download-windows.html ) can cope with worse overlay conditions and plays great! therefore this will be better than virtualdub, which is not intended as player, also you may try BSPlayer, which offers some overlay configuration and gives me at least some results on my non-overlay video card ( http://www.bsplayer.org/index.php?p=download )

good luck playing it !

 

[badteeth]

Windows Media Player - sound but no video

This fixed the 'sound but no video' problem in Windows Media Player for me:

1. Start Windows Media Player;
2. If not maximised, maximise Windows Media Player;
3. On the menu bar, choose TOOLS then OPTIONS;
4. Select the PERFORMANCE tab;
5. Move the 'video acceleration' setting off 'Full'
6. Click on the OK button;
7. Close Windows Media Player;

(Info: WinXP SP2, Windows Media Player 10, AMD XP3200, 512MB RAM)