movie media crash

[Tassado]

I know this has been a long time coming. I've been downloading a ton of movies from torrents. I think my media player has finally crashed. Everytime I try to watch a movie it just closes because of an "error". I use the windows media player and also a different codec called media player classic. Anyone know what's going on? Thanks

[OboeGuru]

What you've probably got is a codec problem. Note, media player classic is not a codec, but rather a different program that natively supports video formats that Microsoft's WMP does not. What file type are you attempting to play? *.MPG, *.AVI, *.OGM, something else?

I normally discourage the downloading of copyrighted media over the internet, but clearly no one cares except me, so I'll just stop trying to shove law down peoples' throats. :P

[Tassado]

I'm always use avi. which is why it confuses me. It usually works with windows media and has worked fine with media player classic in the past.

[Shortyland05]

Mplayer plays every single motherf**kin movie format! its sooo handy!

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html

and its originally for linux (windows version available) so doesnt that scream reliability?

[Neo]

Sorry just cause it was linux doesn't mean it's uber, use VLC instead. VLC plays everything under the sun and more.

www.videolan.org

Doesn't even need extra codec packs.

-Neo

[TranquilNightElf]

Yup, VLC is a really easy to use and no-nonsense all codec player.
Even plays mov files for Quicktime.

~TNE