Windows Media Player Problems

[bluey43]

I am running Windows Media on Xp and all of a sudden i cannot play avi's, standard mpeg and avi's with ac3 sound whereas before i could. I tried an update and that didn't seem to fix the problem as well. Also uninstalling and re-installing didn't work either.

Obviously i have deleted something or removed some files. Any help with file fixing and any solutions to these problems would be greatly appreciated.

 

[scarecrow]

It's rather not something missing, but something messed up. Did you install any big codec pack recently?

 

[bluey43]

Not at all. The last couple of things i have installed are only games.

 

[scarecrow]

Avicodec will analyze your media files and hint you which codecs or directshow filters you need installed to playback via WMP or another media player.