# Strange Media Player 11 problem

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-media-player-11-problem/399754>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 12, 2007, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-media-player-11-problem/399754 "2007-04-12T04:24:01Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2007, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-media-player-11-problem/399754/1 "2007-04-12T04:24:01Z")

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I’m pretty PC tech savvy, but I haven’t had much luck googling this problem.

When I try and play any **mpg** file with MP 11 the file loads, plays a couple of frames, and then immediately slows to a halt. No error message, it just chokes on the file. When I ctrl-alt-del it shows wmplayer.exe running at 99% (PC is noticeably bogged down). And it doesn’t say that its not responding when I end task.

It will play avi’s and wmv’s fine. If I rollback 11 to Media Player 9 it still does it. But **Media Player Classic** (i.e. MP 6) will play the mpg’s just fine.

Its not a codec problem. It could be a video driver problem, but I have the latest driver and haven’t had any other problems.

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**Author:** ![Gentle\_Robot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e495f1/32.png) [@Gentle\_Robot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gentle_Robot)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2007, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-media-player-11-problem/399754/2 "2007-04-12T06:02:25Z")

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For anything that boggles WMP I’d use [VLC Media Player](http://www.videolan.org/vlc/). It will play damn near anything.

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**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2007, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-media-player-11-problem/399754/3 "2007-04-12T06:46:32Z")

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Yeah, I have that too, though VLC can be a little buggy as well.

I can live without MP 11. In fact, if it weren’t for Napster needing the DRM, I would **prefer** to live without MP 11, bloated annoying made-for-idiots program that it is.

Just bugs me to not know what’s causing 11 to choke on those files like that. I’ve never seen it do that.