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re: WMP refusing to play video clip & no sound Saturday, August 25, 2007 at 8:00 am Posted by Special-K (561 messages posted) Maybe the files are corrupt? On Friday, August 24, 2007 at 11:28 pm, sillysushi81 wrote: >I'm wondering if any of you out there has some advice or a hammer. This just started >yesterday too. I have quite a few "JAG' episodes on my external hard drive I make >fan videos. The other day I didn't have to much trouble using Media Player or Movie >maker but sometime today it both programs started freezing up on me and playing >the video but no noise especially if it was video clip format instead of MPEG so >I do not know what I hit or did. Now I;m having trouble pullinf up windows player > I'd be glad to take a hammer from anyone > >thank you >frustrated and confused beg. video editor [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: WMP refusing to play video clip & no sound Sunday, August 26, 2007 at 5:42 am Posted by Keith Stanier (1098 messages posted) Which version of WMP are you using? Downloads for Windows Media Player [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: WMP refusing to play video clip & no sound Sunday, August 26, 2007 at 2:11 pm Posted by Ed (603 messages posted) 1. REVERT TO A REGISTRY BACKUP Boot to DOS (using a bootable floppy disk, e.g. from http://www.bootdisk.com) and type the following at the C:\ prompt - SCANREG /RESTORE Note the space before the forward slash in this command. Follow the on-screen instructions, and try to restore the *oldest* backup of the registry (they're listed by date) as that's the one with the best chance of being from before the problem arose. By default Windows keeps 5 backup copies of the Windows Registry, so that you can go back to before the problem arose. When an on-screen message tells you that the registry has been successfully restored, restart the computer normally. 2. USE SYSTEM RESTORE If the above hasn't solved the problem, use Win ME's "system restore" function to return the system to a point before the problem arose, if you have System Restore enabled in your computer. For details, do a google search on the phrase "System Restore in Windows ME" at http://www.google.com - http://www.google.co.uk/search?as_q=%22System+Restore+in+Windows+ME%22 Ed On Friday, August 24, 2007 at 11:28 pm, sillysushi81 wrote: >I'm wondering if any of you out there has some advice or a hammer. This just started >yesterday too. I have quite a few "JAG' episodes on my external hard drive I make >fan videos. The other day I didn't have to much trouble using Media Player or Movie >maker but sometime today it both programs started freezing up on me and playing >the video but no noise especially if it was video clip format instead of MPEG so >I do not know what I hit or did. Now I;m having trouble pullinf up windows player > I'd be glad to take a hammer from anyone > >thank you >frustrated and confused beg. video editor [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: WMP refusing to play video clip & no sound Monday, August 27, 2007 at 4:58 am Posted by Keith Stanier (1098 messages posted) On Sunday, August 26, 2007 at 2:11 pm, Ed wrote: |By default Windows keeps 5 backup copies of the Windows Registry, |so that you can go back to before the problem arose. By default yes but you can change the number of backups it saves by editing the C:\Windows\Scanreg.ini file and change MaxBackupCopies=5 to what ever number you want too. I have mine set to 14. You may find that Scanreg will still only lists 6 backups but it will show older dates. This works with Win98 as well as WinME. I thought WinME had its own System Restore once Windows had started, as well as the DOS one.? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: WMP refusing to play video clip & no sound Sunday, September 2, 2007 at 2:16 pm Posted by Ed (603 messages posted) Win ME does have System Restore. You can use Win ME's "system restore" function to return the system to a point before the problem arose, if you have System Restore enabled in your computer. For details, do a google search on the phrase "System Restore in Windows ME" at http://www.google.com - http://www.google.co.uk/search?as_q=%22System+Restore+in+Windows+ME%22 Ed On Monday, August 27, 2007 at 4:58 am, Keith Stanier wrote: On Sunday, August 26, 2007 at 2:11 pm, Ed wrote: |By default Windows keeps 5 backup copies of the Windows Registry, |so that you can go back to before the problem arose. By default yes but you can change the number of backups it saves by editing the C:\Windows\Scanreg.ini file and change MaxBackupCopies=5 to what ever number you want too. I have mine set to 14. You may find that Scanreg will still only lists 6 backups but it will show older dates. This works with Win98 as well as WinME. I thought WinME had its own System Restore once Windows had started, as well as the DOS one.? [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows Me Discussion Forum