My main hard drive died a while back, and I had to set up windows on the
secondary drive. I was then able to recover most of the data from what was
the primary. One of the things I've been having problems with is my video
players. None of them will play the videos they used to play, or even
streaming videos from web sites. I get no video but the sound is playing
perfectly. There are no error messages, ie "you need a codec to play this
etc)

What I've already done.

Reinstalled my video card and drivers
Downloaded and installed the latest version of all players
Downloaded and installed the latest version of Direct X
Downloaded and installed a video codec package for XP (1.3), and another for
mpeg-2

Now I'm stumped, and pretty damn PO'd.

Did you reinstall the video player's themselves; i.e QuickTime, RealPlayer,
Windows Media Player? Installing the drivers for the video card has nothing
to do with installing the various video players.

"Harold Schmurtz" <hsc@magma.ca> wrote in message
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> My main hard drive died a while back, and I had to set up windows on the
> secondary drive. I was then able to recover most of the data from what was
> the primary. One of the things I've been having problems with is my video
> players. None of them will play the videos they used to play, or even
> streaming videos from web sites. I get no video but the sound is playing
> perfectly. There are no error messages, ie "you need a codec to play this
> etc)
>
> What I've already done.
>
> Reinstalled my video card and drivers
> Downloaded and installed the latest version of all players
> Downloaded and installed the latest version of Direct X
> Downloaded and installed a video codec package for XP (1.3), and another
> for mpeg-2
>
> Now I'm stumped, and pretty damn PO'd.
>