It didn't work for my case. I ended up having to upgrade to the "Media Center Edition" and then everything worked fine. It was a $9.00 upcharge. I guess some people don't use Media Player, so they decided to break that out of the package.
Chuck
No video on mpg files WIndows 8 Media Player.
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I have some video files that were converted from another format to mpg. They play perfectly on my WIndows 7 PC. I can use WMP and Movie Maker. I have a new PC with Windows 8. In either of those programs the videos play the sound only. No error messages. Don't know if I'm missing a CODEC or just what. Any thoughts?
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Anonymous
2016-02-27T09:16:22+00:00 It's like charging people extra for car windows that actually open .. yah .. typical
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Anonymous
2017-11-28T12:58:46+00:00 I have windows 10 but no video shows on media player only sound
its an mpg video
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Anonymous
2017-11-29T08:51:04+00:00 I have windows 10 but no video shows on media player only sound
its an mpg video
Do like everybody else: get VLC Media Player for Windows 10 64 bits, free desktop version in:
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Anonymous
2017-11-29T11:55:33+00:00 VLC video player is a free software and really great. I routinely use this program for all video formats.