media files

I'm sure I have all the codecs because the files play in wmp, but the thumbs in all three thumb views still show the app pic

Hi I have managed to get my Zensonics z500 media player to show me the media folders on my windows 7 machine, in the video library, but the files have no contents. If the original file on the PC had an AVI movie that file showing on the z500 is empty. It originally worked fine in the old XP pc...

Have experienced muffling of the sound when attempting to view news videos via CNN.com. Also note that the sounds are cut short when playing, for example: The sound that should play when I log-on would be "Welcome to my castle, stay for a spell". These sounds play just fine if I go into my...

Is there any way to access data entered into the Summary Tag under Windows XP, (for all files... not just pictures and music) in Windows Vista or Windows 7. Windows XP allowed you to enter custom data for just about every file type. For non "media" files the flowing default attributes are...

Hello, I recently upgraded to Windows 7 from Vista on my PC. I have all my media files on a WD external HD. The problem I am having with media player is in the libraries.. When clicking "organize" then "manage libraries" and then "music" it just disappears and does nothing. If I follow the same...

Hi, using Windows 7 Home Premium, Installation ist about two weeks old. Problem: I have media files (films, to be precise) on a hard drive. Often, I want to change their location (e.g., move films that are lying around in root to a common folder with the name of the director). 80% of the...

Hi, I have a WD 1TB external drive, and I keep all of my media on that drive (movies, pics, music). I have set all of my libraries to point to the folders on the drive where I keep all my media, however, Windows Media Player will not load anything, and when click on organize, manage libraries...

Windows 7 RTM x64 slow data transfer speeds Greetings, I'm experiencing weird problems, I have Windows 7 64bit RTM (latest) installed, with latest critical updates from MSDN. Now I have 2 HDD's 500 GB one is split into 2 drives C (200GB) D (the rest) and the other drive is full 500GB for my...

i opened %userprofile% folder and found that there are 2 My Documents folders. Does windows 7 allowing same names now ? Both are exact same name, copy name paste to other has no effect as if they were named differently but not. This making me confused where user data is stored. Is this normal ...

I haven't had luck with streaming recorded tv over the internet :( I've searched these forums (and others) with no luck. Both machines are running the RC (build 7100) and both have been secured using my windows live id. I even installed a codec pack on the laptop and I was able to play one...

Hi, I'm a newly installed Windows 7 user. I've migrated from XP and so am currently finding out about the new features of Win7. Windows Media Centre is one of those features and having used TVersity to stream my media files over the network I thought that I'd try and give WMC a go and see how...

Hi, I'm using build 7100 on all machines involved. I have a home group setup and all of the computers I'm talking about have successfully joined the home group. I have one desktop computer at home. I have a portable which moves around. My networking is DSL -> NAT/Router/Wireless Access...

I used the temporary internet files very often on Windows XP. It was the easiest way for me to grab images, xml's, flv, swf, mp3's and go on and on. Now I have windows 7 (version 7137) and when I look in the TIF folder, there are no jpg's, no flv's, no swf's and so on. I was wondering if those...

I can't play some song in windows media player of windows 7, but with the same song I can play it well in windows media player 10 of windows Xp

Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but every time I try to sync to a device, whether it be an SD card, an MP3 player, or even just a random flash drive, Windows Media Player seems to refuse to convert any of the files... It manages to copy the files that don't need conversion, but the files that...

hey there when ever i try to burn movies or music or any files to a cd it does not work and i have a cd burner and all the stuff needed but it still wont work so if you guys could plz drop some hints that would be greatly apreciated thanks sincerely, tsalamat

:eek: If this problem has been identified in another thread, then please accept my apologies and redirect me. I did a search and was unable to find anything, and consequently am posting this. My system has separate physical drives. One is for all system and program files. The other is for...

Hello world! I have been using XP and Windows 7 for a while now, and have been keeping my media all on my XP partition. Windows 7 added it's permission settings to the "My Documents" folder of my XP installation just fine, and was working without a hitch. Yesterday, I tried to share the XP "My...

Although I've tried the registry edit in disabled sessions, whenever i try to open a media file in any folder, it says "windows explorer has stopped working" and restarts after the media file starts playing. Also, I can't turn off sounds even though i have "no sounds" applied. Those are my only...

Hello. In the first few weeks of running Windows 7 (Build 7000), all went well. then, suddenly, a certain program failed to access my D drive (That's where I keep all of my documents and media files). then I noticed a bunch of programs (such as uTorrent, FlashGet, etc.) simply cannot download...