I've got a problem with my viewer pane not loading up movie files(except .mpg's but even then I only get sound). I'm almost certain it's windows x64 problem cause viewer has worked straight out of the box back when I was on xp media center. I found faq (i had some problems loading .wmv files awhile back) here but my all solutions there did not work.
I noticed that when i do click on movie file that it opens it .txt format and .txt plugin loads. I disabled it and all i get blank screen(though it looks like it's about to load up for like a half of second).
Just for fyi the codecs i have installed are divx(for divx),coreavc(.mkv's) and ffdshow(for everything else). I don't beleive it to be a codec(only had ffdshow when I first started) conflict though.
Do you have 64 bit versions of the codecs? The 64 bit Opus can only show movies that you have 64 bit codecs for - 32 bit codecs can't be used. Note that Windows Media Player is a 32 bit app so whether it can play a particular video or not is irrelevant.
But my WMP11 is sitting in Program Files (x86) so I must have the 32-bit version which makes me think there must have been a problem with the 64-bit version when I tried it a few months ago.
Thx Jon I unistalled all 32-bit codecs and 64 bit k lite codec pack and worked like a charm, well almost did.
See i was just about to say it didn't work, but just to test it out I went and try it on my admin account(I normally use limited user for everything except upgrading or installing something.) and worked great.
I guess now i think the problem as far as limited user account goes is that it doesn't have full control permission to something it needs. But I gave full control to install in prgram files and even dopus itself.
I'm on XP x64 and I've now got some video formats displaying in the preview pane.
First I installed the 64-bit edition of Windows Media Player linked to in my previous post. After that DV-AVI, WMV and MPEG1 were displaying correctly in the preview pane.
I took the full install but during the installation I set it to decode no audio formats, but ticked every video box except VC-1 (which I don't have any of but which I suspect is already supported by WMP 64-bit).
After that MPEG2 displays correctly and in particular .m2t HDV files which are important to me.
However I still can't get Xvid, Divx, FLV, MP4 or MOV to display in the preview pane and would love to hear if anyone can get those working.
By the way everything I do on this machine is under the "administrator" account.
Just noticed that Windows Media Player is still sitting in Program Files (x86) so I'm guessing it must just be a 32-bit app with a couple of 64-bit decoders (such as MPEG1, DV-AVI and WMV).
Internet Explorer does that. i.e. 2 versions. But I still only have one WMP11. No mention of x64 in the "About" window though. But I did get it from that link above.
I think you are right, it hadn't installed properly.
So I tried reinstalling over the top of my existing WMP installation and all appeared smooth but no change to the program and still in (386) folder.
So then I rolled back WMP (cannot uninstall it) to WMP10 and tried the WMP 11 x64 installer again. This time the installer failed (gracefully) and said it couldn't complete.
So I then tried to update to WMP 32-bit and that failed too, telling me I should go and get the 64-bit version!
So then I rolled back my system to how it was this morning before I started.
