media player classic & screen saver

anyone know where the setting for that the screen saver to not activate when i'm playing videos on media player classic (not WMP)?
i know i can use WMP to play without the screen saver issue but i don't know why my WMP doesn't play .avi files anymore even if i have the codecs. I click on the .avi video file and the player just closes by itself...

i'm running vista.

 

Try reinstalling the codecs. Also review/reset the file (avi) properties as to use WMP as player.

cheers ...

 

Also, .avi can incorporate DivX I think - so although its an avi file, you may need additional stuff.

I'm saying this since you haven't told us which codecs you are using.

 

i tried reinstalling the codecs but no luck.. the one i use is called "vista codecs v439". the weird thing is that it was working before with WMP but it just suddenly stopped working.
how do you reset the file properties though? is it choose the file to open it with a default player (i did that too)?

 

Download Media Player Classic - Home Cinema, and you're done. It's the same thing, except it has a setting (amongst other few additional features and bugs fixes) somewhere which disables the screen-saver when a video is being played.

Also, get K-Lite Codec Pack Full, it's better than the one you're using right now, and it has both MPC and MPC-HC to chose from when you install it.

 

Can you do something other than recommending installing more and more software?

Windows Media Player normally plays avi videoas fine - and for simple viewing is more than good enough.
Also, Windows Media Player is for me less resource intensive than other players.

About codecs:
I'm using DivX and ffdshow - but you may want to start a thread on codecs if you think about changing.
Each have their advantages and disadvantages.

 

And can you learn to count?

Uninstall - MPC
Install - MPC-HC

Uninstall - Vista Codec Pack
Install - K-Lite Codec pack.

2 installed, and 2 removed.

Net installations - 0
Problem solved? - Yes (at least it was for the users in the forum from where I found this solution for the OP)

You were saying?

While we are at it, please define - "videoas", "normally", "simple viewing" and "other players".

 

Installing and deinstalling slows your computer down the more often you do it as you leave "junk" behind.
Best example - Winamp - deinstal it and you have a few hundred keys left in the registry....

About the words:
One was a typo - nothin wrong here: videos (if you have a European keyboard you would have noticed that a & s are next to each other)
Simple viewing means normal use, i.e. no special zooming, fast foreward, slow motion etcetera. Last time I knew simply viewing a video was opening it (maybe full screen) and letting it run.
Normally - check your dictionary for that, let me quote (I gather English is not your first language)

I think you can figure out the rest.

Same goes for "other players" - as we refer to Windows Media Player/Windows Media Player classic - anything else is "another player".

 

I don't know what "deinstal" is, but I'm assuming you mean uninstall. Nevertheless, it doesn't make an iota of difference on the performance if you have a few hundred keys left in the registry....////????!!!!....

AFAIK, every keyboard has an A next to an S.

I know what zooming is, but please define "special zooming".

I wasn't asking for the meaning of the word "normally", but the context in which you posted this -

And yet you're the one making spelling mistakes here (fast foreward)!

There is no " Windows Media Player Classic".

 

Actually, it does.
Not for a hundred keys, not for 200.

But if you do it a couple of times you end up looking at thousands of keys - and that's when the difference shows.

Also . you always have the ever so slight possebility of corruption of settings or keys.

 

I'm about to quote you, to you. You posted this no more than 20 minutes ago.

Evidence please!

Again, English is not my first language like you gathered, hence "possebility" is not in my dictionary. I'm going ahead with Google's correction and assuming you mean "possibility". You also have a possibility of getting the keys/settings corrupted without installing/uninstalling anything, due to literally 100's of reasons, doesn't mean jack.

If uninstalling and installing a couple of small softwares made as gigantic an impact on the system's performance as you're making it out to be, then no one'd install anything. No one'd update their softwares either!

 

I have had registry problems before on a computer - in fact, an O&O defragmentation seemed to have caused it in that case.

Basically - you don't want to mess with things like the registry unless you need too.
This mean, unistaling and instaling are not the best ways of solving a problem.

And I said explanation or evidence.

I hope you know what the registry is - a giant accumulation of keys, these keys determine how programs react and also inlcude shutdown settings etcetera. The Registry will grow with time - installign and unistaling unnecessary programs will inflate the registry, but also, like on any other "dynamic file" lead to fragmentation.

Fragmentation slows down.

 

I'll just go ahead and quote you again -

Who here is messing with the registry? I just don't understand it, you're the only one going on and on about registry being corrupted while no one else has even mentioned about even opening it.

Says who? I've installed and uninstalled literally hundreds of softwares and drivers since I formatted a year or so ago, and then, I've gone ahead and uninstalled them as soon as an updated version came out and installed them, and I don't see any difference.

So you're saying that, we just install whatever softwares we have, and if their updated versions come out with new features and/or security fixes, or we find a better one, or one of them gives us a problem, we just what....sit around because there will be keys left in the registry? What should we do then, an acupuncture on the system?

And if you're so concerned about registry being "inflated", why not get CCleaner and clean it?

 

Actually, I do run CCleaner - looking at every entry.
In fact, I'm 99% certain CCleaner removed a key it shouldn't have.

I also know that HP scansoftware was 100% allergic to registry cleaners - when I used that I had to reformat the system and reinstal everything, it was the only way I could get it back to work again.

Registry cleaners can be thorough and dangerous, or "unthorough" and well - not too effectful.

 

And what the has this life story of yours got to do with this thread?

 

thank you guys both for sharing the experience even though it looks like it ended into a fight

so i went the way with installing k-lite codec pack full and now it works as i wanted on MPC-HC. also i did use CCleaner to clean out the registries left behind from uninstalling softwares. rep to you both

 

Why'd you rep him? He did jack all.