# Windows media player help? **URL:** \ **Category:** random\ **Created:** [November 12, 2003, 2:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/windows-media-player-help/35302 "2003-11-12T14:57:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![opel](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/opel/32/199_2.png) [@opel](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/opel)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2003, 2:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/windows-media-player-help/35302/1 "2003-11-12T14:57:12Z")
I keep getting a problem with windows mediaplayer 9. It always plays the audio from streams but sometimes it doesn’t show the video. It will act like this for a couple of days then go back to normal. Any explanations??? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2003, 3:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/windows-media-player-help/35302/2 "2003-11-12T15:00:48Z")
Is it the same video that it does this to? Because it really sounds like a missing Codec problem… Cheers! -Niann ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2003, 3:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/windows-media-player-help/35302/3 "2003-11-12T15:14:56Z")
not really a solution to your problem, but try downloading vlc…nifty little player that works on just about every video type. [http://www.videolan.org/vlc/](http://www.videolan.org/vlc/) -teet ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2003, 3:37pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/windows-media-player-help/35302/4 "2003-11-12T15:37:55Z")
Sounds as though you need the codec. Xvid or Divx codecs are the newbies ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2003, 7:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/windows-media-player-help/35302/5 "2003-11-12T19:30:52Z")
Hey teet, that is a pretty cool vid player, thanks for the link. Cheers! -Niann ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 4:14am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/windows-media-player-help/35302/6 "2003-11-13T04:14:34Z")
no problem niann 🙂 i stumbled across this player about a year ago…it’s AWESOME it will play practically anything…quicktime movies, weird divx movies, partially downloaded avi’s…plus it’s a lot less bulky than windows media player. -teet ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 10:58pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/windows-media-player-help/35302/7 "2003-11-13T22:58:42Z")
what are codecs? how do I use them ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 11:05pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/windows-media-player-help/35302/8 "2003-11-13T23:05:31Z")
i needed about 30 codecs to play vcd’s, i honestly hate windows media, it never works right for every video