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bobe4

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Can't play some mpg or avi files
« on: July 26, 2003, 08:03:01 am »
When I try to play some mpg or avi files I get sound, but no picture.  MC9 gives me the message:

"Media Center can not display visualizations for this file type.  Visulizations are only available for internally supported file types. (mp3, ogg, wav, ape, etc.)"

Please help.

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Matt

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Re: Can't play some mpg or avi files
« Reply #1 on: July 26, 2003, 09:04:05 pm »
Is it possible you don't have the video codecs installed for those files?

Will they play in other players? (like Windows Media Player)

Thank!
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Re: Can't play some mpg or avi files
« Reply #2 on: July 28, 2003, 02:01:15 pm »
No they wont.  please advise on how to install these
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Re: Can't play some mpg or avi files
« Reply #3 on: July 28, 2003, 02:15:47 pm »
Depends on the codecs used by the files.   You'll have to dig around where you got them from to find the codec packs...
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Re: Can't play some mpg or avi files
« Reply #4 on: July 28, 2003, 02:47:23 pm »
I'm totally lost - i don't even know what codec packs are.  where do i start?
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Re: Can't play some mpg or avi files
« Reply #5 on: July 28, 2003, 02:51:12 pm »
Sometimes files with the .avi extension are actually in DivX format instead of the normal Windows video format. You can download the DivX codec pack from http://www.divx.com

If you right click one of the files in Windows Explorer, you might be able to see what format was used to encode the video.

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Re: Can't play some mpg or avi files
« Reply #6 on: July 28, 2003, 02:51:47 pm »
Codec is from enCOde/DECode.  MP3 is a famous example of one.

Please try google for more information.  There is a lot out there.  Hydrogenaudio.com is also a good source.
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Re: Can't play some mpg or avi files
« Reply #7 on: July 29, 2003, 08:13:38 am »
rocketsauce,

your link to divx did the trick!!!  Thanks so much, that was all i needed!
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Re: Can't play some mpg or avi files
« Reply #8 on: August 05, 2003, 07:20:03 pm »
Whoops - i spoke too soon.  That did the trick for my desktop, BUT on my laptop i still don't get MC9 to play the files (they do play on my powerDVD program).

Someone, please help
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