windows media player problem

[Monkey Masher]

Hello im having a problem with windows media player. I have been downloading things from p2p programs like morpheus and limewire but when i open the videos instead of seeing the movie i see some wierd music video backround. I do not have this problem with real player files but i cannot open windows media player files with real player.

[polobunny]

Maybe you just need codecs for it.

Upgrade to the last wmp available (10) from the microsoft website. If they are porno videos, take in mind they are probably protected with DRM (Digital Rights Management) and probably cannot be viewed.

[Evans]

Polo knows is porn.

And, please do correct me, but isn't WMP 10 still buggy and shitty? Or wasn't there a major problem with it that might have been solved by now?
As for the codecs, I believe that the player indicates that it is missing them. Try it with another player, Quicktime if you have it, VLC or any other, just to see if the files themselves aren't corrupted.

[polobunny]

I currently have no problem viewing movies with wmp10 encoded with wmp9.

[((KvN))]

I actually have the same problem. It's just that when Limewire is opened up or downloading, the music players (all of them for mine, including WMP, RealPlayer and Winamp) are buggy. I don't know why, but it stopped doing that a couple of weeks ago.

[Evans]

If limewire is a p2p client and you play files while they are being shared, ya, shouldn't work.

[polobunny]

Why wouldn't it work? I have no problem uploading something when listneing to it, unless it is still downloading.

[Monkey Masher]

i always get a message that goes by real quick that i think says error downloading codec

[Evans]

That's the one. Thanks.

[Stoned Stoner]

get a modded xbox man,my xbox media player [xbmc]plays more formats then my pc
and ive got a shit load of codecs and players for my pc including realmedia etc but it still doesnt play everything

my box plays everythin ive thrown at it

[polobunny]

Take AVIcodec (http://avicodec.duby.info/) or Gspot (http://www.headbands.com/gspot/) and scan your movie into one of these, it ill tell you the codec needed. After that a quick google search will get you there.

[Evans]

Thanks for the links, Polo. Great stuff.

[Monkey Masher]

TY guyz i used progam it refereanced me to dvi thing. I was watching outlas star episode 8 i could only get in .avi form but when i watched it the resolution wasnt so good. it seemed someone converted it or something(it said cartoon network in bottom right corner) but atleast i could see it. Ill look for a better copy later

[sniperrfl1011]

glad you got it to work, sorry to hear about the low quality.

Just for future reference, i'd like to recommened the K-lite Codec pack, which can be downloaded from free-codecs.com

It contains hundreds of popular codecs in one install, and so far, I have not found a single file that I could not play using that codec pack.

Also, note that it has no relationship to k-lite or kazaa, simply that the people who made it decided to mooch off the k-lite name.

[Monkey Masher]

k ty guyz tested The warriors no reso. problems like this and it worked perfectly thanks for the help Im gonna try and geta better copy of outlaw star episode 8