MS Windows media player stopped playing SVCD, and my Win XP crushes by browsing MPEG2

[canoner]

Suddenly my windows media player stopped playing SVCD I burned. Running Media Player 9 series under XP pro. Reinstalled it but no avail. Tried a couple of other players and none of them play. My Apex plays these SVCD fine. Must be something wrong with windows. What could it be? ANy idea? Thanks

[telemike]

sounds like a missing MPEG-2 codec

[hoozdapimp]

installing PowerDVD or some other mpeg2 application should do the trick just fine :)

[canoner]

Originally posted by telemike
sounds like a missing MPEG-2 codec

I reinstalled the SVCD codec, and powerdvd, didn't help.

[jorel]

"what" svcd codec did you reinstall?
:confused:

[canoner]

Originally posted by jorel
"what" svcd codec did you reinstall?
:confused:

The one I found here:
http://www.divxmovies.com/software/

Media Player 9 played SVCD just fine before this week. Then it keeps giving me the messgae like "media player has had a problem and must be shut down...".

I reinstalled the powerdvd and powerdvd can play svcd fine now. But media player still refuse to play SVCD. I thought the mpeg2 codec for windows XP is corrupted, and installing powerdvd won't fix it. So I downloaded the so called svcd codec from the above site, but obviously it doesn't help at all.

[jorel]

i have wmp9 too and only for test,
i open one svcd to see what codec
is used for reprodution:
in propreties i got:
main concept MPEG video decoder !
i think it's free...


a good hint is
Media Player Classic from Gabest.
play "everything and is free!
;)

http://gabest.org/

[canoner]

Originally posted by jorel
i have wmp9 too and only for test,
i open one svcd to see what codec
is used for reprodution:
in propreties i got:
main concept MPEG video decoder !
i think it's free...


a good hint is
Media Player Classic from Gabest.
play "everything and is free!
;)

http://gabest.org/

Will this overwrite WMP9? I think if I can get rid of WMP9 from my windows xp, and do a clean installation of wmp9, it will come back to normal like before.

[jorel]

overwrite wmp9?
maybe yes,
i have my doubts cos i don't use XP!

:)

[canoner]

Originally posted by jorel
overwrite wmp9?
maybe yes,
i have my doubts cos i don't use XP!

:)

Forget it. It didn't solve the problem. I think I am just going to stick with powerdvd from now on.

[jorel]

"never say die" my friend canoner.
;)
i have horrible english,can't develop anything but
learn tons with doom9 forum,kvcd forum and cdrbase forum.
in this forums i got everything to get my results.
the best is the help!

then use this link to free codecs,you will find what you need:

http://mirror01.iptelecom.net.ua/~video/

sometimes you got "page not found" ....but works!
:)

[canoner]

Originally posted by jorel
"never say die" my friend canoner.
;)
i have horrible english,can't develop anything but
learn tons with doom9 forum,kvcd forum and cdrbase forum.
in this forums i got everything to get my results.
the best is the help!

then use this link to free codecs,you will find what you need:

http://mirror01.iptelecom.net.ua/~video/

sometimes you got "page not found" ....but works!
:)

I tried that link several times but never got through. Does anyone know a way to do a clean installation of WMP9 without reinstalling Win XP?

[jorel]

i open the link 4 times today using opera!
with IE i got "page not found"...
be patient like opera, sometimes is slow but works!
is a great link with tons of "everything".

:)

[canoner]

Originally posted by jorel
i open the link 4 times today using opera!
with IE i got "page not found"...
be patient like opera, sometimes is slow but works!
is a great link with tons of "everything".

:)

Still no go with IE. Installed Opera once but it was a disaster, did not work out for me.

[canoner]

I still cannot play SVCD from WMP9. PowerDVD plays SVCD on my PC fine right now, but installing it did not fix the problem with WMP9.

What is worse now is, whenever I browse to a folder that has SVCD type MPEG2 files, my windows explorer just crushes. Not only WMP9 cannot play MPEG2 video files, but also Windows crushes on browsing MPEG2 files. This is really annoying. I cannot do any operation on folders with MPEG2 video files!

Why is Windows so dumb! Anyone has idea how to fix it?