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No audio for WMP and Real player, missing codec?

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I'm hoping someone can help me. Sometime between last night and tonight I've lost all ability to get audio from WMP and Real player files. I use Quicktime 99% of the time, so it's mostly not a problem but now I can't watch MLB.TV, so I'm feeling a bit of a crippling hole here. When I try to access a file, it says that it may not play correctly because it was compressed using an unsupported codec. However, they all worked yesterday. Does anyone know what the hell has happened, and more importantly how can I fix it?

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Anything that ends in .mpg, .wmv, .asi, or .avi doesn't work. Now that I check everything, I was wrong. Quicktime player still produces problems when an .avi or .mpg file is used. Basically, sometime between today and yesterday I've lost capability to play all of these file types.

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Hrm. Provided you're downloading files from different places and all, it could be a problem stemming from a software/registry change. One option, therefore, is to use System Restore (if you're using WinXP, that is; I'm not familiar with Mac troubleshooting) and put it back at yesterday or, to be safe, a few days ago. If that's too drastic of a step for you, try uninstalling/reinstalling WMP before the Restore.

 

To help diagnose, though, have you installed any new software in the last few days?

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I just downloaded MPlayer OSX and now apparently all is well again. I don't know what the fuck happened. Thanks for attempting to help, Tyler.

 

The fact that I figured this out for myself is truly a miracle.

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Yeah, see, that's the thing. Computers often don't make a lick of sense. MPlayer is a pretty solid program and often includes all of the codecs you'll ever need (other than eh, one or two), but I sense that the actual ROOT of the problem isn't fixed. I'm betting the WMP and Quicktime installs somehow got corrupted, but hell, MPlayer tends to be a lighter program than WMP and Quicktime anyways. So, what I'm saying is that I should shut up and let you watch your mlb.tv

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