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Help! Windows media player won’t play my LnC dvds that I ripped a while back. I never had a problem before but I was in the mood for a bit of Superman last night and when I opened it, all I got was sound. No picture. Anyone know what that’s about? It seems like it should be easy to fix, like I’ve un/clicked something I shouldn’t have. I burned a video clip for my sister last month and this is the first time since then I’ve tried to play these - it’s all of my ripped dvds. The sample vids that came with the computer play fine.
Can anyone help me get a picture back? I’m not exactly computer savvy, but I’ve fiddled around a bit and can’t solve it. Thanks.

Hmm... My WMP won't play some of my DVDs. I needed something that played... something else. I forget if it was an mpeg thing or a different codec or what, but I can't use WMP - I have to use PowerDVD or something like that.

/shrug
Carol

It says in the left hand corner 'acquiring codec'... 'codec acquired' before it starts playing. Don't know what that means or even if it's always done that? I feel like I should be changing the visualisation because the screen is just black, but I don't want album art or spider's last moment, I want a picture!

I recently uninstalled the software I used to copy them in the first place. Should that make any difference? I didn't think I was using it for anything.

Uninstalling the software may have uninstalled the codec. You'll have to find out which codec it was and re-install it. There's a few programs out there that will tell you which codec a file uses. A quick search pulled up AVICodec , but I haven't tried it, so can't tell you how useful it is.