Win7 Media Center Continuous Intermittent Restarting
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Hi zcd7,
Welcome to Microsoft Answers!
I would suggest you to make Windows Media Player as a default player.
You can also change hardware acceleration and check.
Try reducing (or turning off) video hardware acceleration by doing the following
1. Open Screen Resolution by clicking the Start button, clicking Control Panel, and then, under Appearance and Personalization, clicking
Adjust screen resolution.
2. Click Advanced Settings, click the Troubleshoot tab, and then click Change settings.
Note that some video card drivers do not permit you to change settings.
3. Move the Hardware acceleration slider toward None to reduce or turn off video hardware acceleration.
For further information, visit the below mentioned link:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Play-an-audio-or-video-file-frequently-asked-questions
You may also try these steps and check if it helps:
1. Go to start and type in services.msc in the search box.
2. Now scroll down to Windows Media Player Network sharing service.
3. Right click on the service and select restart.
4. Restart your computer and try playing a media file again.
You can try these steps as well to fix the problem:
1. Right click on computer and select Manage.
2. Under the "System Tools" section, Double click "Local Users and Groups".
3. Click "Groups" and then right click "Administrators"
4. Click "Add to group..."
5. Click "Add" and then select "Advanced".
6. Click "Find Now", double click "Local Service".
7. Click "Ok".
8. "NT Authority\Local Service" should show up in the list now
9. Click "Ok" and Close Computer Management and reboot.
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Afzal-Microsoft Support.
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"I would suggest you to make Windows Media Player as a default player" <-- it was the default until it broke and became unusable. " Try reducing (or turning off) video hardware acceleration by doing the following" <-- problem happens on ALL files, not just video, tried this change for fun, didnt work. "2. Now scroll down to Windows Media Player Network sharing service. 3. Right click on the service and select restart." <-- no change, still same error.
Trying the last suggestion now.
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Your last suggestion, adding Local Service to the admin group, also does not work. Same server exection issue, same DCOM error in the event log.
Winamp and Windows Media Classic still work fine.....
Looks very much like Microsoft broke something in one of the last Media Center "updates".
Any other ideas?
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Found a helpful post over at http://www.sevenforums.com/media-center/27995-wmp12-server-execution-failed.html. I tried Nkarytia's suggestion of taking ownership of the codec keys. I then uninstalled and reinstalled the k-lite codec pack. Almost all of my music then started working. Still got a few of the same "server" errors, but quickly discovered that they were now limited to just about 20 or so songs. I copied them over from my backup drive, and now they play as well. I had not tried copying backups over initially. I've seen a couple corrupt songs over the years, but not ALL of them, ALL at once. 500+ MP3 files on a brand new drive, that were working fine previously, just don't suddenly go bad....
It truly appears that one of Microsoft's recent "updates" to WMP caused MP3 file corruption. I've seen the library itself get corrupted (not since Beta though), but have not seen it affect the files. Is it possible that huge library that becomes corrupt can cause the files to corrupt?
I'll post back if I have any more difficulty, but for now it appears this may be resolved.
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Just found this article, its dated, but seems to describe what I just encountered on the supposedly "fixed" retail version. I wonder if it has been really fixed, or if this is still a problem. Interestingly enough, most of the songs that I found to be corrupt, had very large tags......
http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/01/windows-7-mp3-corruption-fix-arrives-via-automatic-updates.ars
http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/01/warning-wmp12-beta-could-corrupt-your-mp3s.ars
The corruption issue occurs every time that metadata is edited in an MP3 file that already contains lots of metadata in the file header; several seconds of audio at the beginning of the track may be lost permanently. Specifically, any information that causes the header size to exceed 16KB will trigger the loss. In Windows 7 Beta, Media Foundation programming interfaces perform metadata editing of MP3 files, so the problem can occur when MP3 files with large headers are played back in Windows Media Player or Windows Media Center, as well as when metadata for an MP3 file is edited by Windows Explorer (including album art, artist, album name, track, and several other tags).
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I spoke too soon. WMP is now giving the same "server execution" error on MP3's that were previously working. I'm really not going to be happy if it just corrupted all my files again.
Again, Winamp and Windows Media Player Classic play these corrupted songs FINE.
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Source: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/windows-media-player-intermittent-error-when/303fc6ef-57bd-4061-8796-5db95fe50b05
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