Windows media player encountering error and winavi
 

Every thing was working fine until today. Every time I try opening a video file windows media player opens but I get a "windows media player has encountered and error... send error report". And when I'm opening WinAVI MP4 Converter it opens just fine but as soon as it starts to convert a file it encounters an error aswell just like WMP does. This is annoying me, how do I fix this? I've tried re-installing WinAVI MP4 Converter but it didn't work.

I think you have some codec make some error,try uninstall codec and install K-Lite Codec Pack.

I don't think this is a codec issue, becuase last time I used Windows Media Player (a long time ago). I seem to recall it telling me that I have a missing codec if I had a missing codec. What I would recommend is to ditch WMP and get VLC instead, or KMplayer (Korean Media Player, not KDE mplayer). Both of them are standalone media players that have codecs built in, so they should solve your problems.

I've never used WinAVI MP4 Converter so I can't help you there.

It would also be helpful if you posted the contents of the error message and explain in greater detail what went wrong.

Ok this is the error I get in wmp (see attachment).

Also with that winavi it seems to work when I'm converting a different file typer other than .avi files. Same with WMP every time I open a .avi file it get the error. So I'm guessing it is a codec issuea, but the same video's I wanna play now worked a few days ago. I have that kazaa codec pack aswell. This all started when I installed some iPod video converting softwares, but I uninstalled them all and it still didn't help.

hello. my windows media player 10 was working fine playing dvds but a few minutes later, my worst nightmare came true. I downloaded realplayer 10.5 and my windows media player no longer plays sound for dvds. the media player still can play dvd video but no sound. it can still play music cds with sound. yes i tried many dvds. many of which worked a day before i downloaded realplayer. i tried clean installing both programs: windows media player and realplayer. then installing only windows media player 10. still no sound from only dvds. next i used system restore. still problem presist. next i upgraded to windows media player 11beta. still same problem. i even downloaded a codec packet from microsoft.com and updated all drivers. still does not solve problem. my last resore was to call the help support from dell. dell cannot help me. i talked to a computer tech X2 he cannot help me. my final attempt was to check for file corruption by running SFC /scannow. but did not help. PLEASE someone help me!!!!!!!!! i really like windows media player and want to fix it.
other notes: i have 5 different players on my computer all works fine except windows media players dvd sound. they are: quick player, divx, media center, media player, realplayer(at the end, i reinstalled realplayer since i cant solve the problem anyway). my system specs are: dell e510. pentium D 2.8ghz, 1 gig ram, geforce 7300LE graphic card. any suggessions??????please help. if u solve this problem for me i will be your grateful friend who will hook ups. please do not suggest format my computer. this i really do not want to do.

That WMP error message was just the generic windows one for "this program has crashed", so at this point I really doubt its a codec issue, because WMP shouldn't crash just because it dosn't have the right codec. To make sure it isn't a codec issue, I suggest that you download gspot and use it on the avi file in question to make sure you have all of proper codecs installed.

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I am getting something strange happening when I launch my copy of WMP 10. Nero pops up a register notice. WTF? ;)

If anything is likely to screw up your computer even more, it would be the k-lite codec pack. Do not install it ever.

I do have the right codecs and all, I was watching the same movie's a day before this problem and it played fine. It's just that now every avi file I open wmp crashes.

Right now I can't think of a reason WMP won't start for you. Have you scanned your system for viruses/malware recently? That might have something to do with it.

The only other suggestion I have for you now is to try to reinstall WMP, or upgrade if you're using an outdated version of WMP (you could also try out some of the other players I mentioned above or Windows Media Player Classic).

Ok this is annoying me, I tried what you told me ORLY, scanned my computer, nothing. Re-installed WMP 10, didn't work, upgraded to WMP 11 beta, didn't work, re-installed divx and that didn't help either.

I might as well reformat or something.