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Media player have sound but no picture

castle · 2013-01-14 18:27:28

Windows media player on laptop plays a movie I downloaded but I can only hear the movie as the picture is just shapes like you see in electronic disco video,

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14-01-2013 7:27pm

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castle

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Windows media player on laptop plays a movie I downloaded but I can only hear the movie as the picture is just shapes like you see in electronic disco video,

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#2 14-01-2013 7:32pm
Agent Smith

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Download VLC player

www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html

Your prob missing a codec from windows media player

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#3 14-01-2013 7:37pm
yoyo

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VLC would have my reccomendation also, but if you want to watch it with Media Player install this and you videos should play ok

Nick

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#4 16-01-2013 10:35am
castle

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Thanks lad now perfect

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