Windows Media Player plays my movies like ' audio '.

Windows Media Player for some unknown reason decided to play my movies as "audio clips" using Alchemy.

Can someone tell me why?

and give me instructions on how to solve this problem.

Thank you.

Hello, MADinitial

This happens when there is no available for video files.

These videos have played successfully in the past?

You try to perform a system restore when the files were correctly play: How to restore Windows XP to a previous state

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