video images

[greshoff]

Hi,
I used to be able to watch video content on my computer. Either using Power DVD or WMP. When I now try to watch DVD's or downloaded videos I can hear the sound track but I cant see the image. I dont know how this has happened. I have installed various codecs packs uninstalled PowerDVD & reinstalled but I still can't see the images. I can play DVD discs OK using WMP but not see any downloaded video images. Any advice on getting the videos to work would be much appreciated.

Thanks
Martin

[BeoWulf]

Codec packs are evil, they usually have conflicting codecs and the like. Try playing it with VLC if that works then its more than likely a codec problem. Use something like G-spot to find out what codec the video uses.

[greshoff]

Thanks for your reply . What is VLC?

[BeoWulf]

http://www.videolan.org/ Free open source media player. Really nice.