Video Problems with Windows media Player???

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Posted by Walter Mindz on Jul-18-2001 05:31:

Video Problems with Windows media Player???

Ok, for some reason my windows media player won't play any ,mpa files (not mp3) which is a video file. Now, these files use to play all the time before without any problem at all, but when i went to watch them the other day, they wouldn't work and i got a message that came up, "This pin cannot use the supplied media type". Does anyone know what the problem is????

.....The version i'm usin is 7.01.

Posted by fastmp3 on Jul-18-2001 05:40:

Try to uninstall it , then install it again
if the problem continues , download another movie player

Posted by Walter Mindz on Jul-18-2001 05:43:

quote:
Originally posted by FASTDJMP3
Try to uninstall it , then install it again
if the problem continues , download another movie player

I tried that, uninstalled and i downloaded a new windows media player and it still had the same problem.

Posted by fastmp3 on Jul-18-2001 05:45:

Did u try the old media player (the one that comes with windows when u just install it , it's in start , programs , accessories , search it there)

Posted by Walter Mindz on Jul-18-2001 05:52:

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Yeah, it works on there, but you can't actually make the video full screen.

Posted by fastmp3 on Jul-18-2001 06:03:

Oh well ... at least u can watch them

Posted by Walter Mindz on Jul-18-2001 06:23:

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I can watch them on Real player or the MV2 player, but i'm tryin to fix a problem here.... and i want to get these put on tape.

Posted by --]-ExEcuTE-[-- on Jul-18-2001 06:26:

Re: Video Problems with Windows media Player???

quote:
Originally posted by Malice
Ok, for some reason my windows media player won't play any ,mpa files (not mp3) which is a video file. Now, these files use to play all the time before without any problem at all, but when i went to watch them the other day, they wouldn't work and i got a message that came up, "This pin cannot use the supplied media type". Does anyone know what the problem is????

.....The version i'm usin is 7.01.

Try it with Real Player, i think this videoplayer can play this video format.

Hm, strange...
In Real Player .mpa is a MPEG AUDIO FILE, no video...
Are you sure that should be a video file???

GREETINGS TA�s

Posted by Walter Mindz on Jul-18-2001 06:33:

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Yeah, unless there was some sort of crazy fuck up with my comp and ended up changing all those files to .mpa files, i was able to watch all these videos before without a problem with windows media player (version 7.01) but that all stopped a few days ago for some reason i'm not sure of.

Posted by Slylee on Jul-18-2001 06:44:

quote:
Originally posted by Malice
Ok, for some reason my windows media player won't play any ,mpa files (not mp3) which is a video file. Now, these files use to play all the time before without any problem at all, but when i went to watch them the other day, they wouldn't work and i got a message that came up, "This pin cannot use the supplied media type". Does anyone know what the problem is????

.....The version i'm usin is 7.01.

hey for some reason my mediaplayer isn't working lately either. it tried to play a video the other day and it's just that swirly color stuff on the screen like from when u play mp3's...hmmmm odd

Posted by --]-ExEcuTE-[-- on Jul-18-2001 06:48:

Strange...

Try it with the Real Player, ore install the new Windows Media Player! I think 8 is the last version...
But when you install the new Media Player, also install the old skin!!! The surface of the Media Player 8 is horrible!

In the office, i have Media Player Ver. 6... and it works fine. I only installed the DivX and the MPEG4 Plugin...

Can you play other video formats with your Media Player?

Posted by StereoPrincess on Jul-18-2001 11:51:

same fuckin thing happens to me. same error too. what the hell is that?? i tried watching some of the videos that were suggested on here and they totally didn't work.

Posted by Henkie_henk on Jul-18-2001 14:04:

Re: .....

quote:
Originally posted by Malice
Yeah, it works on there, but you can't actually make the video full screen.

alt+enter?? I might be crazy but my standard windows mediplayer dose go fullscreen (with borders lol)

I do have a divx player which goes fullscreen pretty cool (also for tv out stuff ;-)

Oh yeah dl a new pack of codecs.. tha files yr trying to view might be encoded with the new codecs.. i had that 2 once..

Posted by Walter Mindz on Jul-18-2001 17:16:

quote:
Originally posted by --]-ExEcuTE-[--
Strange...

Try it with the Real Player, ore install the new Windows Media Player! I think 8 is the last version...
But when you install the new Media Player, also install the old skin!!! The surface of the Media Player 8 is horrible!

In the office, i have Media Player Ver. 6... and it works fine. I only installed the DivX and the MPEG4 Plugin...

Can you play other video formats with your Media Player?

Yeah, it works with Real Player.... and it use to work all the time when i used windows media player... it's not like i just downloaded these videos and it wouldn't work... i've been watching these videos in that format for months now on my media player, it just all of a sudden decided that it didn't want to work.

Posted by twilochik on Jul-19-2001 00:47:

mee too mee too!! lol my wmp won't play any .mpg files!! I'm like wtf so I d/l'ed another one! But I'm still baffled as to why it wont work!

Posted by JOKER on Jul-19-2001 00:55:

Sh*t I thought there was something wrong with mine. Glad to know I'm not the only one. Real player works though aahh. I think I'll try that.

Thanks everyone!