Cannot play any video/movies

[rickbmb]

I don't know what to do anymore, my pc just can't play any video file. When i open one with any player, the cpu goes to 100% and the only thing i can do is reset the pc.
I can run any games without problems, bf2 or oblivion run just fine.

I tried clean installed nvidia driver, reinstalled nforce driver for my mobo. I tried codec cleaner utilities and i even bought a new video card cuz i was getting really mad

One thing i noticed tho is that my card is AGP (7600gs) but if i go into device manager and look at properties on my video card, under location it says PCI bus1, device 0, function 0.

I tought that might be my problem but reinstalling nforce chipset driver didn't change anything, still says PCI bus 1.

Thanks

[Baldrick]

Try play with VLC Media Player, it has it own builtin codecs. If it works you have some codecs problems...if not...then I don't know.

[laspis59]

Have you recently installed a codec package eg the K-Lite Codec Pack because this can seriously mess things up?

[rickbmb]

Baldrick dude, you're my new best friend !!!
VLC works !!

Now doesn anyone know a way to remove all those codecs i've been installing? Most of them aren't in add/remove list.

[laspis59]

They mostly reside in System32,you could try to manually delete them.

Use AVICodec and click on the "Codecs & Filters" tab.It lists what codecs are installed on your system and the location of the files (System32) you can then find them and delete them manually or disable them with a right click of the mouse.

[redwudz]

You can also use Codec Sniper to remove unwanted codecs. But be careful not to remove the default system codecs.