I have been dowloading many video files over the past few weeks, and throught out them almost 3/4 share a problem. The videos I dowloaded are all 100mb and up, therefore they should have a substantial legnth. When I play the files (using Windows media player) the play time is usualy between one minuet and a minuet and a half. I relized there was something wrong with the file when I would let it play to the end, and I would still be hearing audio from the video I hadn't yet heard, and the picture because an evey so often change of one frame, picture after picture of what should be my movie. After further investigation I found that if I skip to 75% through the movie it would drop me at a part of the movie much farther in, and I hadn't viewed during the first minuets and a half of it. I belive I have the latest version of Wm player so I don't know what to do. I'm willing to try anything because I have 30+ files that are all like this that I would love to be able to salvage. Please, if you don't mind, either post a reply (or preferably) email me at [email]*****

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Sounds like a codec problem. May I suggest a different player? VLC - (click on link) _ (choose nearest mirror site) has in-built codecs & is generally very reliable.

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thanks, ill try that one, but do you think the limewire player is better or worse than VLC?

The limewire player can only play music. VLC can play both audio & video.