Errors opening media files

I've got some news... It was a codec issue... I had a mate from work tell me about it, and he told me to get rid of all my codecs and instal K Lite.. And now everything is working swell =)

Thanks for all your help guys!

Yep. figured as much. Glad you got it sorted. I do like the K Lite pack. Has a large user following so problems get pointed out and fixed quickly so pretty reliable.

If were are able to open the files in media player, you had the codec, and the issue arose from the codec installer only putting the codec in for media player, and not the registry entries for the windows to use that codec when "previewing" so it crashed.

If you were not able to open the files with media player, then it is a missing codec.


When I ran through that issue, I could play all media in wmp with file-open but browsing killed explorer. Till I uninstalled and reinstalled, looking last night I have:

FFDShow
K-Lite
DIVX

Thats it works well, only a few registry edits to make xvids show up in media center. All formats rendering well. (except mpeg4 but thats for the mac!)