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 Solved At Last Windows Media Player encountered a problem while playing the file. For additional assistance, click Web Help Also windows media player crashes with avi. Also quartz dll error Hi I have been experiencing all sorts of media player/quicktime / any other player you can mention problems over the last few days. I have seen many people with the same problems, many, many. Mine only seemed to get worse the more I tried to fix it to the point that no file would work in wmp mpc and even qt. Anyway to cut a medium length story short, I found an answer.  I am no supergeek but looks like it is in fact. A codec registration issue.  What I did was to download a codec pack ,I used the K lite pack, it doesn't matter if you don't want the pack, the trick is in uninstalling it , believe it or not, but you must install it first. So.. install the codec pack, in my case this fixed nothing, but wait..... Even though I tried everything mentioned on the forums the problem only got worse until.... I then UNINSTALLED that same codec pack from the start menu/programs. During this procedure the uninstaller recognised a registry error with the codecs and ran an error fix. When I now open windows media player or any other player ,EVERYTHING WORKS.  So forget your hardware dismantling or reinstalls... that ain't it (most likely) Spread the word peoples If you still have the error, I can only offer you my pity  Last edited by chongo; 12-Sep-2007 at 11:55 AM.. |
22-Mar-2008, 02:33 PM
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| Your solution solved my problem too!! Thanks Chongo! You're the man! I have been having this similar problem for more than a year now and have not been able to solve it. That's until I came across your solution today.  My problem was, WMP on my PC wouldn't play any file - be it audio or video, always giving me the dialog box which said "Windows Media Player encountered a problem while playing the file. Click web for help." The very same audio or video files would play with other players, like the VLC Player for example. However, WMP wouldn't play them and it was driving me nuts!! I uninstalled WMP11 and went to WMP10. Then again to WMP11. Nothing made any difference. Went to several forums for help. No dice. So I took your advice, downloaded the latest K lite codec pack from 'filehippo' and installed it. The installation gave me a bunch of registry errors, but giving me the choice of either removing those entries or keeping them. I chose to keep them, even though the course of action recommended by the installer, was to remove them. WMP still would not play anything. As suggested by you, I uninstalled the K Lite codec pack from Add/Remove programs But while doing so this time, the same registry errors cropped up while the K lite codec pack was being installed!. But this time I chose to remove the defective registry entries. And voila, now my WMP plays all the files! Though the registry errors showed up while installing the Codec pack, I was hesitant to remove them since I wasn't sure of the Codec Pack's credentials. What if I removed them and the other players stopped working? So, to be safe, I chose to keep the registry errors. But since I was familiar with the Add/Remove programs uninstaller, I knew that it was Ok at this stage, to go ahead and delete those entries. Problem solved! All that now remains to be done, is to say: Thank you, thank you, thank you! |
23-Mar-2008, 06:48 AM
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| That's one hell of a solution. |
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what you codec you are looking for, with the help of GSpot or Video Inspector or any other utility. In my instance, WMP wouldn't play ANY file format!  I can understand using these utilites, provided WMP on your PC, played everything except for one or two files, in which event one can use GSpot. etc. to find out what codec, if any, is missing from the file. In the more than one year that I was having this problem, I tried many things suggested by other forum members, including my own futile search on the internet for a solution. That's until I found Chongo's post here. It worked for him and it worked for me!  Besides, the codec pack was uninstalled, so IMHO, me thinks, there's no need for concern. . But as a precaution, I feel it would be prudent to back up the registry before trying out Chongo's solution, since deletion of registry entries is involved. I did not back up the registry, because, as mentioned earlier, the uninstallation and removal of registry entries, was handled by MS's own inbuilt Add/Remove programs. Regards Last edited by jnulu; 24-Mar-2008 at 01:39 AM.. |
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| Thanks jnulu, I am glad the post above helped, that error was enough to make anyone go a bit nutty. sup2 , this was a weird and specific problem, I myself trawled the net rigorously and found no correct answer to it (in fact most of the suggestions where destructive or potentially catastrophic or just the old REFORMAT- yeah right , I tried so many things to fix it but found it really only got worse, until I literally stumbled upon this particular solution.I myself would rather not install any third party codecs, but note that uninstalling the codec pack solved the problem, not installing it and I only installed the k-light pack long after the error had manifested, so really there was nothing to lose. I must hand it to k-light though, for the codec registry entry cleaning utility, as jnulu's, my own and who knows who else's problem, could have continued unabated without it. This was a really annoying error and my 'puter has run like a dream for many months since.  Last edited by chongo; 23-Mar-2008 at 11:13 PM.. |
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