I have the following issue under vmplayer 6 with xp-32 installed as a guest (4gb ram):
while video plays fine in video players (win-mediaplayer and videolan) on the guest system, the videos will not play at all when to to be run as part of a different process, such as video editing software or as a preview within dvd copying software. Resolution and ram is not the issue (i am talking about low-res .mpg and .avi files in the video editing software and a preview window of DvdFab software).
Both programs work fully and well on an ancient xp host system that has less ram allocated than the xp guest on my w-8 machine has.... so I wonder what the issue might be?