Movies dont play!!

[bobbob]

Any time i try to play any movies on my computer it stalls and wont play. It doesnt matter what type of movie player i use, real player etc., it doesnt work. Any help?

[Baser-X]

You mean avi, mpg, mov, rm files don't play, right? ;)

There's many different reasons this could be happening. It could be a problem with your computer, you may need updated codecs, if the source of the files is "shady" they could be damaged or corrupt, etc.. Provide a little info about your system for starters. Have you recently run a virus scan? Defrag and clean up temp files?

[bobbob]

Yeah i ran a virus scan ut it didnt find anything. They used to play ok but the i downloaded the new real player and it stopped working

[bobbob]

Dont know much about computers by the way

[Baser-X]

Sorry, I can't recall the last time I used Real Player or Real One.... whatever they call it now. I know less than nothing about it. Have you tried playing them in Windows Media Player (WMP)? For WMP you will more than likely need to download codecs.

There's a bunch of codec packs here (http://www.moviecodec.com/downloads/codecpacks.html). I use the Nimo pack personally and thus far it has covered all my viewing needs in WMP. I had nothing but problems with the K-Lite pack, I'd advise against it. I know nothing about the ACE pack and I prefer Nimo over SLD. Each will have a setup file and will automatically install all the codecs. What file types are you trying to play? WMP will play almost all except .ra/.rm and I'm sure there's a codec for them too.

[Tweaker]

Any time i try to play any movies on my computer it stalls and wont play. It doesnt matter what type of movie player i use, real player etc., it doesnt work. Any help?

Hello bobbob, have you tried reinstalling the software and running the update feature?

The videos that you are trying to play might be using a newer version of a piece of software called codec. DivX is the most common of the newer codec software that can better maintain image and sound quality while using more compression. It may be worth trying out some different player software to play the videos.

[bobbob]

What is that nimo thing meant to do? I downloaded it but nothing seemed to happen. It doesnt matter what player i use they dont play. Any more advice?

[renegade600]

What type of moves, from a dvd or downloaded?

[bobbob]

downloaded and it doesnt matter from what site it always stalls and i have to restart computer

[bobbob]

Anyone got any help???

[bobbob]

OK, whenever i download movies from the iternet the computer doesnt register them as movies, or someting, because it just shows the windows icon beside it and stalls when i try to oopen it with DivX or any other player.