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Media players stopped playing mp3s
I use both Windows Media Player and IrfanView for playing audio and video. Today when I tried playing some mp3s from my Music folder, Windows Media Player would not play the file and I received this message: "Windows Media Player encountered a problem while playing the file." When I tried playing the same mp3s with IrfanView the player opened, the file name was there, but it showed 'no file loaded'. I was unable to find the Windows Media Player error in the event viewer, but I did find the one from IrfanView as follows:
Faulting application name: i_view32.exe, version: 4.2.7.0, time stamp: 0x4be6f0d9
Faulting module name: ntdll.dll, version: 6.1.7600.16559, time stamp: 0x4ba9b21e
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x00057ae9
Faulting process id: 0xf34
Faulting application start time: 0x01cba4c210085c44
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files\IrfanView\i_view32.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll
Report Id: 4e8454b4-10b5-11e0-a51f-00e04d3af98b
I have never had this problem before and all other audio and video files play correctly. I already tried turning off the Windows Media Player, restarting and turning it back on. I have also reinstalled IrfanView and all the codecs are installed for both players. I hope someone can help me.