Windows Media Player Crashing

[Jasdero]

Issue: I GIVE UP! I spent the last hour or so trying to figure out WHY Windows Media Player 10 was crashing every time I tried to play a media file in it, but only got more confused. Okay, so, each time I open up a file in WMP, it dies. It'll play normally for about 10 seconds, and then it'll take up a lot of my CPU usage, start skipping parts of the song, the visualizations in WMP start freezing, and when I try to close WMP, it refuses to die. I have to open up the Task Manager, and go to Processes to end it (and even then, it takes about 30 seconds before it actually closes).

Attempts: So I googled this, and one site said that it was related to ffdshow. So I uninstalled it -- WMP 10 still didn't work. Then, someone else said that if you reinstalled it, all would be well. I did so, and it roll-backed to WMP 9 (WMP 9 crashed too). SO! I reinstalled WMP 10, and yeah... nothing changed.... It continued crashing...

Plea: \ T__T / Someone... Anyone... Help me....

[Kurama]

I had tthat problem to but my dad hekped me out! Maybe you should ask him! ^__^x AKA your dad!

[Jasdero]

I had tthat problem to but my dad hekped me out! Maybe you should ask him! ^__^x AKA your dad!

XD; Won't work. I'm the computer-person in my family. My dad thinks that computers are going to suck out his soul and sell it on this "eBay." Whenever he needs to do something on the computer, he pulls me in and keeps a good four feet away from the screen while telling me what he needs done. Once he has what he wants, he zooms off. XD

[agasfas]

Perhaps you have a computer virus. A few times in the past I had the same thing happen because of a virus i picked up. Every time I played WMA files it would crash or didn't play. I had to find out what trojan it was, find out how to remove it, then had to manually edit my registry, then lastly unistall and re-install media player.

You think that perhaps you could have a computer virus?

[Jasdero]

>=O I am the proud owner of two beautiful computer protection programs. Norton Internet Security 2005 and McAfee AntiSpyware. o.o I run both of them weekly.

[termyt]

[quote="Sunako"]XD]

Yeah, you laugh, but this happened to me once. It took me three weeks to get my soul back.

Is this happening with all files or only one in particular? The media file(s) itself may be corrupted.

[agasfas]

I am the proud owner of two beautiful computer protection programs. Norton Internet Security 2005 and McAfee AntiSpyware. o.o I run both of them weekly.

Trust me there are a tons of things that neither Norton or McAfee pick up. Avast actually did a better job... go figure.

But if it's not a virus, then my guess is that you may likely have some corrupted system files that may be shared w/ some other programs or whatever.

[Jasdero]

Yeah, you laugh, but this happened to me once. It took me three weeks to get my soul back.

u.u]Is this happening with all files or only one in particular? The media file(s) itself may be corrupted.[/QUOTE]
o.o All of them. Every single one of them. I'm going to blow them up with dynamite.

Trust me there are a tons of things that neither Norton or McAfee pick up. Avast actually did a better job... go figure.

XD]But if it's not a virus, then my guess is that you may likely have some corrupted system files that may be shared w/ some other programs or whatever.[/QUOTE]
=O;;;; Hrm. How do I slaughter them?

[Mithrandir]

Wait, you reformatted your disc, and the problem is still there?

Normally when I see something like THAT, it screems "memory failure." If you haven't got that drastic, try using various media players. Try quick time or itunes, maybe winamp. Do any of them crash?

[Jasdero]

Wait, you reformatted your disc, and the problem is still there?

Yep. Completely, and it's still there.

Normally when I see something like THAT, it screems "memory failure." If you haven't got that drastic, try using various media players. Try quick time or itunes, maybe winamp. Do any of them crash?

=O;;; That doesn't sound good. XD;;;; All of those (Quick Time, iTunes, Winamp) work fine; no crashing. \ o_o / I don't know what's wrong.

[Mithrandir]

Hmm. Have you set wmp to "authorize" your music, and are you using unauthorized music?

[Jasdero]

Hmm. Have you set wmp to "authorize" your music, and are you using unauthorized music?

o.o How do you do that?

XDD No~ Most of these songs are ones that I ripped myself. ^__^;

[Arnobius]

[quote="Sunako"]o.o How do you do that?

XDD No~ Most of these songs are ones that I ripped myself. ^__^]
Make sure these aren't checked

[Mr. SmartyPants]

[quote="Sunako"]o.o How do you do that?

XDD No~ Most of these songs are ones that I ripped myself. ^__^]

what do you use to rip them?

[Jasdero]

Make sure these aren't checked

o.o They aren't.

what do you use to rip them?

>=O A program that came with one of my mp3 players: Creative MediaSource Organizer.

[Jasdero]

*slams hand down on some random table*

O__O / I TAKE THIS LACK OF RESPONSE AS A SIGN OF DEFEAT AND NEED FOR PROFESSIONAL ASSISTANCE! *hires a lawyer to sue Microsoft* *__* All shall be well. *waves bandaged hand*

[FadedOne]

hmmm...I had a problem similar to this last year. It was indeed a trojan issue that mainly affected WMP. I should see if I can't hunt down that error info again.. Not sure if it's the same deal, probably not, but it's worth a look.

[LorentzForce]

mplayer.

Problem solved. I don't bother with any other media players anymore.