George Patterson wrote in
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Skywise wrote:

George P, what file are you trying that's bringing up Winamp?

When I click on the link Jay posted, A little box comes up with the file
name "Boeing 747 Extreme Landing.mpg", the text ":what do you want to do
with this file?", and two radio buttons, the top one of which says "Open
with." The windo beside that button has "Winamp (default)" in it. When I
click OK, that box disappears, I get a "downloads complete" message,
then the Winamp window appears. It has the file name in it, but nothing
else. Clicking "Play" has no effect.

Winamp (AFAIK) only plays audio, no video. MP3 is an mpeg format so
there could be some confusion going on there.


Sounds like you have some file extension association problems.

Quite likely. I've had some problems with spyware lately, and Ad-aware
has probably reset some stuff. What's a good player for these on a
Windows 2000 OS?

I have several multimedia players and sometimes I have to open
the appropriate player and load the file from within rather than
the double-click method. Some formats, like avi, can have a wide
variety of possible codecs. One avi will play in one player, the
next may need a different player.

But in answer to your question, I have PowerDVD 4.0, Quicktime 6.5,
Real Player 10.5, and Divx 2.5.3, and tons of codecs. I rarely
have a problem except with some .wmv files and that I don't have
the newest codecs yet.

Come to think of it, it may just be a codec problem.






George Patterson
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