Can anyone tell me why when i use windows media player,it wont let me play but gives error about no memory?

Answer 1

The updates for IE and Windows are ticking me off,.. they are some how decideing to confuse my computer and make those messages pop up.

Anyways,.. You may need more memory (no,.. not on your hard drive,. that's disk space and 95% of the people I talk to online think that's memory, Memory is RAM). Current Windows want to eat up 500 megs of Memory,.. some times more. Most places sell computers with 256 or 500 megs memory,.. but so much junk constantly running they should give you 1 gig.

You may be haveing a Codec problem though. Codecs squish down higher quality things and allow the people that create Videos to do smoother effects. The out come is something that's like 50 megs would have been 700 megs without the Codecs. (Yes I really have things chopped down that much) At the same time the Codeced up smaller version might be higher audio and visual quality then the larger version. I think WIndows Media Player just came out in a new version in recent weeks (I may have players mixed up) that has expanded the Codecs it works with. But to make sure things sink correctly, I use some program called G Spot. It free,.. it just figures out what Codecs the Audio and Video are compatible with,.. which were used on it,.. organizes that out,.. figures out which player might work the best for it. I forget the letters to the popular Codec even some DVDs use now.. it's like Dvix or something. You may need to install that if anyone can remember the name of that one. It's name is similar to DirectX and something else that you also want on your computer for compatiblity with Videos, DVD, games/software, and websites.

Answer 2

I have answered this question in previous post. You may find it here: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AkYhO_vxPSwI9oWehnrahQXzy6IX?qid=20061123231545AAsXLZ0


Or if you don't want to lose track, here's the answer again.
"Don't worry. This is normal especially for computer which just upgraded. This problem occurred because Windows did not use your physical memory entirely but relies solely on virtual memory to run the program. What you need to do is to tweak some setting to your memory usage & processor scheduling.

Please follow these steps carefully:
Go to: Control Panel > System > Advance > Performance : Setting > Advance. Check on "Programs" for both Processor Scheduling & Memory Usage.

Go to Virtual Memory and make sure the total paging file size is at least 336MB. If the capacity displayed is lower, you may click on "Change" and check on Custom size. Set to these:
Initial size: 336MB
maximum size: 672

Click "Apply". You Windows Media Player should run smoothly from now.

Hope this helps."

Answer 3

just reinstall media player. and also increase the size of your virtual memory

Answer 4

Download new version 11 and also do a disccleanup on your computer too.