Solve : Media Player not opening files & crashing instead?

1.	Solve : Media Player not opening files & crashing instead?
Answer» Hi, My problem is that whenever I want to open a video file that is over say, 100mb, the computer will lock up and not respond, making me have to restart the computer. This problem also happens in explorer, if im in the same directory as a large video file, not even selecting it for anything, the computer will lock up. Real player also does this. The only way I can move these files is through the command prompt, and I can only view them with a DOS based movie player, which results in poor sound quality. The thing is, when I try to access or move or modify a large video file in any way through windows, it will slow down to a halt, completely, and crash everything, but in DOS accessing, moving, or playing (in quickview for DOS) takes seconds, if that. also EVERY now and then I get the error message along the lines of media cannot play the file as there is not enough memory or somehting like that Please help! My specs are Pentium 4 1gb ram Windows XP home Windows Media Player 10 PS scanned for viruses with norton and nothing showed up, and I defragmented the harddriveTest you RAM. http://www.memtest.org/ Download the file, double click it to create the floopy then boot to the floppy & let it run for a few hours.I used this yesterday and after 2 hours it wasnt done and I had to go to bed. I used it today and after 4 hours it still hadnt completed and I needed to use the computer so I rebooted. it passed 10 tests and was ONTO the 11th. When I access these large files the harddrive activity light is on constantly and I can hear it whirring and clicking, could this be something to do with using the harddrive as temporary RAM because there isnt enough about? # 8-Bit_Acorn....Is this something that has just started ? What is the file format of the movie you cannot open .....? Does WMP 10 work ok if you play a music cd ? Do you have any other noticeable issues on your machine ? dl65 I cannot open large .avi files. I have not had the computer long (about a month) so this is the first time I noticed this. in limewire I browsed through the 'library' limewire folder and remembered it was 'My Videos' i played the file through limewire which opened a new media player and the file played straight off! Why i can't do this in media player on its own i dont know. Maybe it is more to do with windows explorer? when i click to open the file a small explorer boxs comes up, its when I click on the file that it freezes, and the computer notably slows down when I am even in the same directory as a large avi file CD's play fine I recently (about a week ago) did a system restore Quote I recently (about a week ago) did a system restore Why was the system restore required ? dl65 I accidently deleted NTDETECT whilst trying to clear out some old dos software that had stubbornly installed itself on the root directory, and I didn't have a floppy drive or a boot CD so I did a system restore, and I felt like a clean slate anyway. Not a GREAT reason, but my PC was full of crud and needed a good clean out. by the way, my PC was factory installed with XP with the key on a sticker on the side, so what am I supposed to do for an XP boot CD?wooden spoon...... Do you not have a copy of the original Windows cd ? You dont require a boot disk .......... Just go into the bios and set your cd rom as first boot........ Put your original win XP cd in the drive and reboot ...it will load just fine. Make sure that you save any files you want onto cds before you do this as ....everthing will be wiped clean ........ dl65 I dont have a win XP CD, i didnt get one with my computer as it was bought from Dixons with XP pre-installed, as I thought was the case with all store-bought PCs with XP pre installed...still no updates on media player, its still refusing to play these files. I am especially annoyed because my computer has ample memory which isnt really cheap anyway. hellooooo Quote hellooooo wow, a bit patiente.... well it has been 2 days... sorry! Quote also every now and then I get the error message along the lines of media cannot play the file as there is not enough memory or somehting like that How about getting that error message to display again so that you can get the exact wording of it and then post it in the forum? That might be helpful. How much free space do you have on your Windows drive partition? Have you run Disk Cleanup lately? If not, I think I would do that and see whether it helps any with this problem. wooden spoon....what about ......recreating the issue so the error message comes up and then take a screen shot of it and post it here . dl65 this is WMP trying to access an avi file. This does not happen with all avi's. this is not what happens when i open a large avi. The PC just freezes up.

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Hi,
My problem is that whenever I want to open a video file that is over say, 100mb, the computer will lock up and not respond, making me have to restart the computer. This problem also happens in explorer, if im in the same directory as a large video file, not even selecting it for anything, the computer will lock up. Real player also does this.
The only way I can move these files is through the command prompt, and I can only view them with a DOS based movie player, which results in poor sound quality.

The thing is, when I try to access or move or modify a large video file in any way through windows, it will slow down to a halt, completely, and crash everything, but in DOS accessing, moving, or playing (in quickview for DOS) takes seconds, if that.

also EVERY now and then I get the error message along the lines of media cannot play the file as there is not enough memory or somehting like that

Please help!

My specs are

Pentium 4
1gb ram
Windows XP home
Windows Media Player 10

PS scanned for viruses with norton and nothing showed up, and I defragmented the harddriveTest you RAM.
http://www.memtest.org/
Download the file, double click it to create the floopy then boot to the floppy & let it run for a few hours.I used this yesterday and after 2 hours it wasnt done and I had to go to bed. I used it today and after 4 hours it still hadnt completed and I needed to use the computer so I rebooted. it passed 10 tests and was ONTO the 11th.

When I access these large files the harddrive activity light is on constantly and I can hear it whirring and clicking, could this be something to do with using the harddrive as temporary RAM because there isnt enough about? #
8-Bit_Acorn....Is this something that has just started ?
What is the file format of the movie you cannot open .....?
Does WMP 10 work ok if you play a music cd ?
Do you have any other noticeable issues on your machine ?

dl65 I cannot open large .avi files.
I have not had the computer long (about a month) so this is the first time I noticed this.
in limewire I browsed through the 'library' limewire folder and remembered it was 'My Videos' i played the file through limewire which opened a new media player and the file played straight off!
Why i can't do this in media player on its own i dont know.
Maybe it is more to do with windows explorer? when i click to open the file a small explorer boxs comes up, its when I click on the file that it freezes, and the computer notably slows down when I am even in the same directory as a large avi file
CD's play fine
I recently (about a week ago) did a system restore

Quote

I recently (about a week ago) did a system restore

Why was the system restore required ?

dl65 I accidently deleted NTDETECT whilst trying to clear out some old dos software that had stubbornly installed itself on the root directory, and I didn't have a floppy drive or a boot CD so I did a system restore, and I felt like a clean slate anyway. Not a GREAT reason, but my PC was full of crud and needed a good clean out.

by the way, my PC was factory installed with XP with the key on a sticker on the side, so what am I supposed to do for an XP boot CD?wooden spoon...... Do you not have a copy of the original Windows cd ?
You dont require a boot disk .......... Just go into the bios and set your cd rom as first boot........ Put your original win XP cd in the drive and reboot ...it will load just fine.
Make sure that you save any files you want onto cds before you do this as ....everthing will be wiped clean ........

dl65 I dont have a win XP CD, i didnt get one with my computer as it was bought from Dixons with XP pre-installed, as I thought was the case with all store-bought PCs with XP pre installed...still no updates on media player, its still refusing to play these files. I am especially annoyed because my computer has ample memory which isnt really cheap anyway.
hellooooo Quote

hellooooo

wow, a bit patiente....

well it has been 2 days...
sorry!
Quote

also every now and then I get the error message along the lines of media cannot play the file as there is not enough memory or somehting like that

How about getting that error message to display again so that you can get the exact wording of it and then post it in the forum? That might be helpful.

How much free space do you have on your Windows drive partition? Have you run Disk Cleanup lately? If not, I think I would do that and see whether it helps any with this problem.
wooden spoon....what about ......recreating the issue so the error message comes up and then take a screen shot of it and post it here .

dl65
this is WMP trying to access an avi file.
This does not happen with all avi's.
this is not what happens when i open a large avi. The PC just freezes up.

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