Windows Media Problems

[trt]

Every time I try to download a video from family or friends, I get the message in a panel saying '' Windows media player has stopped working ''

'' A problem caused the programme to stop working correctly. will notify you if a solution is available.''

Dont have probs with you-tube, Had this for over a week or more now.

[Buenchico]

Download the video file to your hard drive and then open it with a decent video player. (Windows Media Player is a joke). The media player most widely recommended in the technical press (and on BBC technology programs) is VLC:
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.en_GB.html
GOM is far less well known but, in my opinion, at least as good as VLC (and possibly better):
http://player.gomlab.com/eng/download/

[trt]

Thanks Buenchico once again,

it took just a few minutes with no problems except the videos are sideways, but I think there is a post about that from earlier.

Ta again.

[Buenchico]

Thanks, Trt.

Video rotation in GOM
http://converter.gomlab.com/eng/guide/rotation_flip.gom

and in VLC:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BmYT8dQrX0