problems opening video files...

hi everyone, i was wondering if anyone could help me a few days ago i tried to play one of my avi files and when i double clicked to open nothing happend ive since tried most of my video files but none will open the little thing pops up to say its loading but it never does ive even tried right clicking and play video but still nothing happens ive checked my default settings and there still set to windows media player which ive always used and had no problems before with, i know theres nothing wrong with the files because if i open wmp then drag the file over it works, i have no clue what to do now and its so annoying having to drag the files over so if anyone can help it will be great thanks alot in advance
E.

 

Sometimes WMP can be annoying and do things like this, if you right click and select open with there will be some options, check that it is set to WMP and tick the always use this program to play this type of file.

I know you said that WMP is the default program, but the above procedure will make sure that it is set properly

 

thanks for the reply, thats one of the first things i did and it makes no difference it still wont open the wmp icon is on the vid to so i just dont understand why it wont open
Emma.

 

Have you checked to make sure that .avi is checked in the file types found under tool>options in WMP? Also, what version of WMP are you using?

 

well the problem seems to be fixed i changed the default to nero showtime then back to wmp and it worked lol thanks very much for your help guys

Emma.

 

Clearly something or someone is fooling with your settings. Since I have no idea where these avi files are coming from, all I can suggest is that you be very careful of the source. If they are from a known and trusted source then I would suggest you do a thorough AV and Malware scans.

Glad that you got this problem sorted!

 

Its probably when NERO was installed it does ask you if you want to make it the default player and lists lots of extensions it can play.
Most people just uninstall and then have to do what you have

Glad all is ok now though

 

yea i think thats what happend to ive uninstalled nero now neway cos was having problems with it, and everything is fine now so im happy thanks again!!
Emma.

 

Would that be Nero 9, I too gave up on it and now use Roxio

 

ah yes nero 9, glad im not the only one! oh i think i might try that, i dont think i can survive with widows dvd maker haha thanks for the tip

Emma.

 

:whack: :barf: Roxio is rubbish compared to Nero :lol:

 

Right in what way?

It does what its supposed to and does not take over my PC's resources to do it. With Nero you go and make a cup of tea, and when you return it's taken over 97% of the CPU Usage and is very reluctant to relinquish them back again.

Nero is also a pain to uninstall, I can't say as I have regretted ditching Nero in favour of Roxio, and I also can't say that I have had any problems with Roxio, unlike Nero that seemed to have a habit of crashing half way through burning a disk, and creating another coaster.

so what say you in defence of Nero?

 

I have not used Roxio for about 3 years, but back then it was clunky and not very refined and lacked advanced options.
In terms of the system crashing and ending up with coasters, thats more of a resource thing, if you have the RAM and HDD speeds to be able to keep up with Nero then nothing can match it (no pun intended )

I am more of a fan of programs like Alcohol 120% in all fairness.

Nero as with all other software does have its flawes, but I think over the years they have improved more than Roxio has

 

with Nero 6,7, and 8 I would agree but it all seemed to go wrong with Nero 9 and if 4 gig of ram, and a Sata HDD, and dual core CPU running at 3.1Ghz can't keep up with it then I don't think many people will have much more resource's and apart from upgrading to a quad core CPU their isn't much more in the worth while upgrades list to improve.

 

Match your system should easily run NERO, I know that there have been issues with the new installer that they use as there are so many versions to the new Nero 9

 

Yes this is what I too thought. It mat not have been a Nero Issue but could well have been a Vista registry Issue.

But after Uninstalling and re Installing a number of times downloading there Nero Cleaning tool I gave up on it and tried Roxio

After this little discussion I think that there is a good chance that if I had put Nero on after a clean install of Vista it just might have worked.

When I get another HDD :cryz: that I want to have for different OS partitions I just might try getting my Nero disk out and Loading it onto the Vista partition

 

In the meantime check out Alcohol 120%