Media Player suddenly stopped working!

so recently my MP just stopped playing .avi and mpg video files. It still
plays wvm tho. I'm pretty sure it's not a codec problem.

Here is the error i get when i try to play

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: wmplayer.exe
Application Version: 11.0.6000.6344
Application Timestamp: 46e5f12e
Fault Module Name: StackHash_4bbb
Fault Module Version: 0.0.0.0
Fault Module Timestamp: 00000000
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 00000000
OS Version: 6.0.6000.2.0.0.256.1
Locale ID: 2057
Additional Information 1: 4bbb
Additional Information 2: ac7dc448506305317b0b35ee817cb945
Additional Information 3: 2b2a
Additional Information 4: c4b0f815cf881b715abdb8699ae5bb47

bump??

Can anybody PLEASE help?

I'll give it a look later today.
Sorry, I was sorting out a (personal) calamity yesterday. =)

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"snorkrat" <snorkrat@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> bump??
>
> Can anybody PLEASE help?

How did ffdshow.ax get on your system? Whomever installed that to your
system installed an extremely old buggy trashy version. Uninstall that and
you should start working again.

I would love to know what software did this to you so that they could be
advised to stop doing that.

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"snorkrat" <snorkrat@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> so recently my MP just stopped playing .avi and mpg video files. It still
> plays wvm tho. I'm pretty sure it's not a codec problem.
>
> Here is the error i get when i try to play
>
> Problem signature:
> Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
> Application Name: wmplayer.exe
> Application Version: 11.0.6000.6344
> Application Timestamp: 46e5f12e
> Fault Module Name: StackHash_4bbb
> Fault Module Version: 0.0.0.0
> Fault Module Timestamp: 00000000
> Exception Code: c0000005
> Exception Offset: 00000000
> OS Version: 6.0.6000.2.0.0.256.1
> Locale ID: 2057
> Additional Information 1: 4bbb
> Additional Information 2: ac7dc448506305317b0b35ee817cb945
> Additional Information 3: 2b2a
> Additional Information 4: c4b0f815cf881b715abdb8699ae5bb47

Sorry about the really late reply..
When you say uninstall it - do you mean just delete it?? And i've no idea
how it got on the pc... i don't even know what it is!

ps - how did you find out that ffdshow.ax was the problem!?

"zachd [MSFT]" wrote:

>
> How did ffdshow.ax get on your system? Whomever installed that to your
> system installed an extremely old buggy trashy version. Uninstall that and
> you should start working again.
>
> I would love to know what software did this to you so that they could be
> advised to stop doing that.
>
> --
> Speaking for myself only.
> See http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info.
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
> --
> "snorkrat" <snorkrat@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:760B196C-DB5C-478C-9F50-229169E859D0@microsoft.com...
> > so recently my MP just stopped playing .avi and mpg video files. It still
> > plays wvm tho. I'm pretty sure it's not a codec problem.
> >
> > Here is the error i get when i try to play
> >
> > Problem signature:
> > Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
> > Application Name: wmplayer.exe
> > Application Version: 11.0.6000.6344
> > Application Timestamp: 46e5f12e
> > Fault Module Name: StackHash_4bbb
> > Fault Module Version: 0.0.0.0
> > Fault Module Timestamp: 00000000
> > Exception Code: c0000005
> > Exception Offset: 00000000
> > OS Version: 6.0.6000.2.0.0.256.1
> > Locale ID: 2057
> > Additional Information 1: 4bbb
> > Additional Information 2: ac7dc448506305317b0b35ee817cb945
> > Additional Information 3: 2b2a
> > Additional Information 4: c4b0f815cf881b715abdb8699ae5bb47
>
>
>

Did you uninstall some random codec pack? Looks like you did. Which one?
I'm working on identifying extra bad ones.

Just a very educated guess. You could determine this yourself using the
Windows Debugging Toolkit.

You could delete it, it'd be better to uninstall or unregister it though. =\

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"snorkrat" <snorkrat@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Sorry about the really late reply..
> When you say uninstall it - do you mean just delete it?? And i've no idea
> how it got on the pc... i don't even know what it is!
>
> ps - how did you find out that ffdshow.ax was the problem!?
>
> "zachd [MSFT]" wrote:
>
>>
>> How did ffdshow.ax get on your system? Whomever installed that to your
>> system installed an extremely old buggy trashy version. Uninstall that
>> and
>> you should start working again.
>>
>> I would love to know what software did this to you so that they could be
>> advised to stop doing that.
>>
>> --
>> Speaking for myself only.
>> See http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info.
>> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
>> rights.
>> --
>> "snorkrat" <snorkrat@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:760B196C-DB5C-478C-9F50-229169E859D0@microsoft.com...
>> > so recently my MP just stopped playing .avi and mpg video files. It
>> > still
>> > plays wvm tho. I'm pretty sure it's not a codec problem.
>> >
>> > Here is the error i get when i try to play
>> >
>> > Problem signature:
>> > Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
>> > Application Name: wmplayer.exe
>> > Application Version: 11.0.6000.6344
>> > Application Timestamp: 46e5f12e
>> > Fault Module Name: StackHash_4bbb
>> > Fault Module Version: 0.0.0.0
>> > Fault Module Timestamp: 00000000
>> > Exception Code: c0000005
>> > Exception Offset: 00000000
>> > OS Version: 6.0.6000.2.0.0.256.1
>> > Locale ID: 2057
>> > Additional Information 1: 4bbb
>> > Additional Information 2: ac7dc448506305317b0b35ee817cb945
>> > Additional Information 3: 2b2a
>> > Additional Information 4: c4b0f815cf881b715abdb8699ae5bb47
>>
>>
>>

I downloaded the latest K-Lite codec pack and when installing it lets you
remove/repair broken codecs which it did. it's all working now tho - thanks
alot for your help!

"zachd [MSFT]" wrote:

>
> Did you uninstall some random codec pack? Looks like you did. Which one?
> I'm working on identifying extra bad ones.
>
> Just a very educated guess. You could determine this yourself using the
> Windows Debugging Toolkit.
>
> You could delete it, it'd be better to uninstall or unregister it though. =\