WMP problems with video duration

[TboneMcGraw]

Hello all

I am having a problem with Windows Media Player. I open a video, and it displays the duration wrong. By this I mean for example a video I know is a complete download that should be 30:00 minutes long displays in WMP as 1:30. So when WMP reaches 1:30 it pauses play (but is still playing the audio for the full 30:00) I can rewind and it will go to a point in the video that I know is beyond 1:30 but will display around 0:45 and then quit again at 1:30. What is more odd is that some vids are completely unaffected, while others are totally messed up. It is also happening to old downloads I know worked properly before.

Please note that 30:00 and 1:30 is just an example; as some vids should be 20min but display 2:46. Another vid should display 16:39 but says its 3:06 and so on. So there seems to be no real pattern to the error.

I was running WMP 9 when this was happening, when it started happening I updated to WMP 10 to see if it would fix it and it did not.

I am running windows XP pro 2002 with servise pack 2 with all updates. W#ith the latest version of WMP version: 10.00.00.3646

I don't remember installing anything at the time the error started occuring, my virus software is up to date. I'm stumped.

Also please note. I am not a complete idiot when it comes to computors, but I am also not an expert. So don't get too technical when you explain things. Or explain things in detail, right down to pushing the "any key"

 

[jcortes]

do the videos play in another media player like quicktime, divx, ect.. also is it any certain file type that it does this with?

 

[TboneMcGraw]

It seems both WMW's, mpeg's and mpg's are all affected but not every one is, some will work while others are affected.

The only other player I have is quicktime so I tried opening the affected files with QT and the same problem occurs. Should I download a different player, and try? if so Do you recomend any I'm not a 'realplayer' fan. I also dislike winamps video playback features.

 

[fjf314]

If you're looking for another video player to test them in, I would check out VLC. It's a great video player, so if you have the same problems with it as you did with WMP, then it might just be the video files themselves, rather than the player.

 

[jcortes]

i suggest just using Divx at www.divx.com it will also give you the codec for AVI files. test the videos with that and let us know it could be a virus or malware that effects those files try running warez's guide.
http://www.techist.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=117351

 

[TboneMcGraw]

Well I gave VLC a try and tried all the video's. They work! without any problems. Videos that should be 5:00 are 5:00. Vids that should be 27.56 are.

To: jcortes

I thought about the possibility of a virus. I do remember now getting a "trojan downloader" a while back. That came from a P2P. AVG did clean it but it may have done some damage before it was cleaned. How could I fix WMP? I know its not as simple as uninstalling and reinstalling, because the registry is still there. But I dont know enough to mess with the registry. Besides I allready updated to WMP 10 and that did squat.




BTW thank you all for helping

 

[jcortes]

try warez's guide first to see if that helps.

http://www.techist.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=117351

 

[fjf314]

Glad I could help. Now hopefully Warez's guide will allow you to get WMP working properly again.