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Question about 'How do I reset the Windows Media Player video cache?'
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Question about 'How do I reset the Windows Media Player video cache?'
Wednesday, October 20, 2004 at 3:35 pm
Posted by Josh Isley
(8 messages posted)
I have a question about How
do I reset the Windows Media Player video cache?:
Hello.
I read the subject and didnt think it pertained to my problem, but then I read the
article and it seems that it related directly to my problem.
Problem : My videos are much shorter than they should be. A 63 Mb file (MPEG) on
my hard drive is supposed to be almost 20 minutes long, but when I go to play it,
it registers only one minute. Now, I have opened the same file in the past. And
played it all the way through, in the past. I did download another file that was
a carbon copy, opened up a preview of it before it fully downloaded, then deleted
it (names were different, thought it was a different file)
Well, I think now that is what made the file shorter. I read this article, and tried
all three solutions (changing name of file, changing directory of file, and deleting
the file as mentioned in Solution 2) and even mixed and matched, till I did all three
at once and STILL is only 1 minute long. I even tried making that wmp file a read-only
file as said in one of the replies. Still only one minute for a 63 MB file.
I have also downloaded other movies which should be much longer than what they are
(less than a minute some) and those I didnt even open up in a preview. So I'm at
a complete and total loss here. I would really appriciate some help, but if you
cant, thats understandable, this is one stupid problem heh.
Josh
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re: Question about 'How do I reset the Windows Media Player video cache?'
Saturday, November 6, 2004 at 8:07 am
Posted by Josh Isley
(8 messages posted)
To add insult to injury, these files are short even when opened with Realplayer,
Quicktime, and a couple other media players.
And I still have this problem...
On Wednesday, October 20, 2004 at 3:35 pm, Josh Isley wrote:
>I have a question about How
>do I reset the Windows Media Player video cache?:
>
>Hello.
>
>I read the subject and didnt think it pertained to my problem, but then I read the
>article and it seems that it related directly to my problem.
>
>Problem : My videos are much shorter than they should be. A 63 Mb file (MPEG) on
>my hard drive is supposed to be almost 20 minutes long, but when I go to play it,
>it registers only one minute. Now, I have opened the same file in the past. And
>played it all the way through, in the past. I did download another file that was
>a carbon copy, opened up a preview of it before it fully downloaded, then deleted
>it (names were different, thought it was a different file)
>
>Well, I think now that is what made the file shorter. I read this article, and
tried
>all three solutions (changing name of file, changing directory of file, and deleting
>the file as mentioned in Solution 2) and even mixed and matched, till I did all
three
>at once and STILL is only 1 minute long. I even tried making that wmp file a read-only
>file as said in one of the replies. Still only one minute for a 63 MB file.
>
>I have also downloaded other movies which should be much longer than what they are
>(less than a minute some) and those I didnt even open up in a preview. So I'm at
>a complete and total loss here. I would really appriciate some help, but if you
>cant, thats understandable, this is one stupid problem heh.
>
>Josh
>
>
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re: Question about 'How do I reset the Windows Media Player video cache?'
Friday, December 31, 2004 at 7:57 am
Posted by Derek
(1 messages posted)
The problem is with the Codec's you have installed. (I was having the same problem
and just found the fix)
Do a search for either of these files "mcspmpeg.ax" or "mpeg2dmx.ax" , Rename them
to "mcspmpeg.ax.bak" and "mpeg2dmx.ax.bak" and try your videos again. It should fix
the problem. If you need to ressurect this file, just change it back.
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re: Question about 'How do I reset the Windows Media Player video cache?'
Thursday, February 22, 2007 at 9:26 pm
Posted by aladdine
(1 messages posted)
Hey, I had a similar problem and I deleted a lot of movies I had downloaded, because
I was getting the "Windows Explorer has encountered a problem and needs to close
etc." error message whenever I tried to access the files. only VCL player managed
to open them. but I did what you said and it worked! I can now see them with Windows
Media Player. Thanks, Derek!
On Friday, December 31, 2004 at 7:57 am, Derek wrote:
>The problem is with the Codec's you have installed. (I was having the same problem
>and just found the fix)
>Do a search for either of these files "mcspmpeg.ax" or "mpeg2dmx.ax" , Rename them
>to "mcspmpeg.ax.bak" and "mpeg2dmx.ax.bak" and try your videos again. It should
fix
>the problem. If you need to ressurect this file, just change it back.
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