Ok, here's my story:
A few days ago, I began to unable to play any videos. The audio would run, video would freeze. At the end of the video, the computer would also freeze.
So I did the normal stuff: Uninstalled recent programs (nada), reinstalled the player in question (WMP10), installed a different player (VLC). Fed up and about to just format the installation, I did one last search. I hadn't thought of it, but the site suggested reinstalling the video driver itself.
I thought it was weird since I could still play games and had no other signs of video issues. Uninstall and sure enough, videos played. I used Driver Cleaner to wipe out the rest of the driver files, and reinstall.
Same damn freezing happens.
So I turn off Hardware Accelleration. It works.
Now my question is: Is my video card toast? I can't even edge up one notch on the accelleration before videos freeze. It's a Radeon 9800 AGP, and about 3-4 years old. Are there any other steps I can take for this?
Update:
I was about to buy a new video card, figuring something must have gone wrong. Something told me to try to play a video in WinAmp first. I had already tried every other video player on my machine, and had installed VLC as well. So I doubted it would work
It did.
I did some more work on it. I removed all my video codecs, I uninstalled all the updates for Windows Media Player. None of this made any difference.
Then I downloaded CCleaner on a whim. I'm not one for using these automated registry maintenance tools. But in this case there were a lot of unlinked registry issues. I ran the tool, deleted the keys, and voila! Videos now work flawlessly in Media player.
Edited, Jul 23rd 2007 12:07pm by Pawkeshup
Edited, Aug 1st 2007 4:20am by Pawkeshup
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