Vista - Media Player VS Real Player

OK.... let itr be known. I am not a big Real Player fan, but sometimes you
have to use this necessary evil. My Media Player in Vista 5600 (1 gig ram,
256 meg Nvidia 6200 with Athlon XP2500) worked fine until about three weeks
ago. Then it would only play the opening few seconds of a WMV file and then
freeze, The audio would keep running, but video did not.

Today I installed the latest build of Real Player, and it worked where Media
Player would not. Any suggested fixes?

5600 huh?
The codecs for video in beta builds were temp codecs-time sensitive;
expired just a couple of days ago; I think.-an MSFT guy posted about it in
other threads.
That's prolly why.

Jeff

"HagarTheHorrible" <HagarTheHorrible@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:7A1F8670-FE7D-43AF-B8B2-404F62988EB3@microsoft.com...
> OK.... let itr be known. I am not a big Real Player fan, but sometimes you
> have to use this necessary evil. My Media Player in Vista 5600 (1 gig ram,
> 256 meg Nvidia 6200 with Athlon XP2500) worked fine until about three
> weeks
> ago. Then it would only play the opening few seconds of a WMV file and
> then
> freeze, The audio would keep running, but video did not.
>
> Today I installed the latest build of Real Player, and it worked where
> Media
> Player would not. Any suggested fixes?

Thanks... not necessairly what I wanted to hear, but that's life. This might
hasten my return to XP. DRAT!

"Jeff" wrote:

> 5600 huh?
> The codecs for video in beta builds were temp codecs-time sensitive;
> expired just a couple of days ago; I think.-an MSFT guy posted about it in
> other threads.
> That's prolly why.
>
> Jeff
>
> "HagarTheHorrible" <HagarTheHorrible@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> message news:7A1F8670-FE7D-43AF-B8B2-404F62988EB3@microsoft.com...
> > OK.... let itr be known. I am not a big Real Player fan, but sometimes you
> > have to use this necessary evil. My Media Player in Vista 5600 (1 gig ram,
> > 256 meg Nvidia 6200 with Athlon XP2500) worked fine until about three
> > weeks
> > ago. Then it would only play the opening few seconds of a WMV file and
> > then
> > freeze, The audio would keep running, but video did not.
> >
> > Today I installed the latest build of Real Player, and it worked where
> > Media
> > Player would not. Any suggested fixes?
>
>

Well, the time sensitivity (I like this politically correct way is limited
to MPEG-2/Dolby Digital codecs only (the codecs that are used in DVD/Live TV
playback, DVD burn). WMA/WMV codecs don't have such a limitation.

Naveen Thumpudi [MS]
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"HagarTheHorrible" wrote:

> Thanks... not necessairly what I wanted to hear, but that's life. This might
> hasten my return to XP. DRAT!
>
> "Jeff" wrote:
>
> > 5600 huh?
> > The codecs for video in beta builds were temp codecs-time sensitive;
> > expired just a couple of days ago; I think.-an MSFT guy posted about it in
> > other threads.
> > That's prolly why.
> >
> > Jeff
> >
> > "HagarTheHorrible" <HagarTheHorrible@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> > message news:7A1F8670-FE7D-43AF-B8B2-404F62988EB3@microsoft.com...
> > > OK.... let itr be known. I am not a big Real Player fan, but sometimes you
> > > have to use this necessary evil. My Media Player in Vista 5600 (1 gig ram,
> > > 256 meg Nvidia 6200 with Athlon XP2500) worked fine until about three
> > > weeks
> > > ago. Then it would only play the opening few seconds of a WMV file and
> > > then
> > > freeze, The audio would keep running, but video did not.
> > >
> > > Today I installed the latest build of Real Player, and it worked where
> > > Media
> > > Player would not. Any suggested fixes?
> >
> >