wmv problem

[muchavo]

ok guys ive searched the forums and found nothing

heres my problem, when ever i try to play wmv in any player they look like this

http://www.villagephotos.com/viewpubimage.asp?id_=10102397

i have wmp7 with the wmp9 codecs or it, im running win98

wmvs used to work fine and then they stopped working

i get good audio but my video looks like that

i used gspot and it said i had the correct codecs

any ideas

i hope this is a comon problem

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[Garibaldi]

hhmmm. I'm not sure but that may be a corrupt video. You could try converting the wmv to an avi (download and use the xvid codec) with Stoik Video Converter (free) to see if it is a codec problem. If it is Stoik will tell you that it can't open the input file. If it does convert it, try looking at the avi. If its the same problem, the video is probably corrupt.

[BigCJS]

You might want to try the VLC Player

[muchavo]

i tried converting it it shows up the same. ill try that other player, this happens with 99% of wmvs, so i dont think they are corupt

[khaymen]

I have the same problem with at least one of the avi's.

Prior to a repartioning and new clean install on TWO computers, I was able to watch a certain XVID AVI on both. I have the same codecs installed on both computers, with all the same updates. Problem now is that I can only watch it on one. The other shows tha same green squares that the sample pic shows.

Only thing different about before was that I was running Win2K on them before and now I am running XP Pro. One other thing is I'm using WMP10 instead of 9 like I was on Win2K.

File doesn't seem corrupt. Very strange.

[muchavo]

alls i know is wmv is becoming the internet perfered medium for video clips which sucks for me