Just noticed today that mpeg files don't have video. Everything was working fine yesterday, today it's just "broken". I reinstalled WMP, I even uninstalled and reapplied all the codecs. Nothing is working and I'm using the WM9 Codec pack, WM9 VCM Codec, AC3Filter 1.10b, a codec pack from FreeCodecs.com, and MPEG Decoder.

And I think this all started with codecs. I'm having a strange problem where Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 won't let me import mpg/mpeg files. My friend however seems to be able to import them just fine and I tried out a bunch of codecs that he sent me. I uninstalled most of them since nothing was working.

I start WMP11 with the mpeg video. It says "acquiring codec" then goes on to "codec acquired". The movie begins to play but a red "x" appears in the playlist and WMP treats it as a sound file. Just sound, no video.

It's definitely a WMP problem. The video plays fine on Creative MediaSource Player.

Just as a quick try I would uninstall WMP11 Beta and reinstall WMP10.

Beta software is for testing and apparently has issues with your system.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win...0/default.aspx

If you need additional Codecs at this point I would suggest:

http://www.free-codecs.com/download/...Codec_Pack.htm

Hey Jephree, thanks a lot bud. Installed the codecs and it made Windows Media Player Classic the default player for mpeg and mpg files. The video works perfectly there but WMP11 Beta 2 remains for everything else. I've found it to be perfect for my vast MP3 collection =)

Take care.

And keep on hangin' around :P

Ack, this is not working. I just noticed I can't view daily NHL highlights at NHL.com because they use Windows Media Player. I reverted back to 9 and still no video in mpeg/mpg files. It tried to connect to a codec server but failed. Back to WMP11 now and it says the same old "Acquiring codec...codec acquired" and still no video. My firewall isn't blocking it and I have absolutely no idea what to do

Codecs are not working.

Perhaps the problem resides in the system32 folder.

Ok, I'm extremely frustrated now. I deleted every codec and reinstalled AC3 Filter 1.09a.

But this is a breakthrough:

http://www.fileformat.info/format/mpeg/sample

When I clicked on "view", the first two files gave me this:

"Windows Media Player cannot play the file. One or more codecs required to play the file could not be found."

The last three however worked, even though they took a bit to load. When I clicked on the first two, they worked as well!

I thought it had been solved so I went back into WMP and loaded up a couple videos to test but no luck. Still no video.

What can this possibly mean?

Quadruple post, lol sorry. But she works now!

Removed all codecs and installed the Ace Mega Codec Pack. Everything works perfectly now. Spooney wooney woo woo woo


=D

As always great detective work!

Thanks for sharing your research and findings. I'm sure it will help others as well.