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<blockquote data-quote="tranquil" data-source="post: 404385" data-attributes="member: 82685">OK,after an excruciating investigation, and comparing side by side media info of various video files.and seeing that 2 files with exact same&nbsp; media info while one works and the other doesn't i understood where the problem is!i actully restored my HDD a while ago using &quot;Recover My Files&quot; (after it turned dynamic suddenly after i disconnected it) and most of the files were videos.and suddenly it hit me, the video files were probably corrupted! and i know that some video players still play them (like vlc) that's why i was able to view them.but apparently MP (nor wmp) can't! so that's why it shouted on a codec problem.if it's possible it would help greatly for the future for MP to know it's corrupted (and not codec) and display &nbsp;a different error msg.unfortunately i had to delete all the bad files <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown&nbsp; &nbsp; :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" />thanks for all your help!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="tranquil, post: 404385, member: 82685"] OK, after an excruciating investigation, and comparing side by side media info of various video files. and seeing that 2 files with exact same media info while one works and the other doesn't i understood where the problem is! i actully restored my HDD a while ago using "Recover My Files" (after it turned dynamic suddenly after i disconnected it) and most of the files were videos. and suddenly it hit me, the video files were probably corrupted! and i know that some video players still play them (like vlc) that's why i was able to view them. but apparently MP (nor wmp) can't! so that's why it shouted on a codec problem. if it's possible it would help greatly for the future for MP to know it's corrupted (and not codec) and display a different error msg. unfortunately i had to delete all the bad files :( thanks for all your help! [/QUOTE]

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