media player

I've always hated Windows Media Player, so after I installed 64-bit Windows 10 Pro (EN-US - NOT N or K), I uninstalled WMP 12 and was happy. But now I'm trying to install a new application called PlayOn Desktop, but it always fails because I don't have WMP installed. I've tried using Optional...

I'm trying to play blu-rays on my laptop, which has a blu-ray drive, but it won't work. I've tried 20 Million Miles To Earth and it just gives me error messages. I tried VLC, even updating to the latest version, and VLC won't play the blu-ray, either. I first tried my default player, Cyberlink...

Hi Upgraded to windows 10 Home 32bit and 64bit, by free download at the release stage. all OK for a long time then crash. Bought windows10 Home 32bit & 64bit (to meet my 2 disc system requirement) on USB Pen drive, found my old PC would not load from USB so used Product Key to download...

In lower rh corner the internet connection icon has been replaced by small square with red 'x' in it and a plug that looks like the power icon, placing the arrow on it brings up a box saying 'not connected-connections are available'. Clicking on the icon brings up the connection screen that says...

I've been having an issue for a few months now where after a little while videos and sound will suddenly stop working. Windows media player won't work, youtube won't work, videos won't play on facebook, even the test sounds don't play when I click the little speaker icon in the corner. I am on...

I have searched for two days and downloaded 15 windows video players in search for what I want. The thing is that I remember this feature was available in 2005 during the Windows XP Era. I don't remember the name of the player that could do it. I found the backup software CD I had since that...

Hey everyone, new to the forum here Ive a problem with my Windows 10 system sounds, where usually you get a click sound when opening a folder and so on...for some reason suddenly, I dont get any system sounds but my audio is working fine when i play music on my itunes, windows media player, vlc...

My computer is an Asus motherboard with i5 cpu, 2Tb hhd and 8Gb ram. I am running Windows 10 Pro. I have 2 Humax PVR's connected via wireless DLNA. I have been using the latest version of VLC player and have been able to access both there hard drives to view videos and pictures for several...

since my last automatic update, Media player and movie maker have now stopped. I wish windows would STOP dictating what programmes we use. I am well used to these programmes. i do not want to change and want to carry on using them. So windows team, kindly return the programmnes you have removed...

Windows Media Player 12 playing "m2ts" file extension without sound. Please Help!

Hi Haven't tried to do this in a long time, and I find that Media Player makes no sense at all. Why is there no navigation pane that at least lets you find what you want to play. Link Removed I spent 10 minutes trying to find a way to navigate to the DVD in my drive. I have all the Codecs...

With all the malware that likes to hitch-hike onto a download of software, how do I know which source is trustworthy?

Is there a media player that can resume playing video where it was halted even through a system restart? I am referring to video files on the computer.

Hi Am using Win 7 32 bit on oldish Dell desktop. Suddenly find that sound mixer level reverts to zero whenever I use an application. Win Media Player Youtube, various players etc. Looked at web but can't find a fix for my situation ( Have ensured that Win not set to mute/reduce sound. Have...

Hi, I've recently encountered a problem in windows media player on a windows 10 machine that I can't figure out the reason or solution for. Simply put, any playlist that is renamed will revert to it's original name after about 3 hours. This happens regardless of whether it is renamed in media...

Hi all, I did a few searches on this but couldn't find anything that matched these symptoms. Someone I know has a problem in windows media player on windows 10, where the tracks in the library view have apparently been re-organised in a seemingly random way. For example, going into a particular...

Hi I'm still messing around with trying to get Cortana to play my music. I think it's like the map location thing, she doesn't get the info from Windows 10 about where the music is. So I started all over. I removed everything from my default music folder, except my iTunes folder. I created a...

When I double click in WinExplorer on an *.mp4 video file a popup appears asking me if I want to play the video with a certain program (here with well known VLC video player). As you can see in the attached snapshot I checked the checkbox to ALWAYS use VLC for opening the video. BUT: When I...

I Have Upgraded to Windows 10 and now all audio and video seems to run at half speed, youtube , downloaded videos and audio audio across the network use windows media player, have tried several other players and get the same thing , removed wmp and reinstalled it, checked all addons but makes no...

I have several kids movies on my laptop. I want to burn them on to a DVD-RW so the lads can watch them when ever and I don't need to collect the laptop to the TV. I burned a Movie to a DVD and it worked fine but none of the next movies will work. Then burn on the DVD but wont play on my DVD...