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Title: Can't Play Video - Please Help
Post by: pank2002 on August 19, 2004, 01:31:46 pm
Okay, so the short story is that my mom have gotten somebody to make a sale video of a horse for her. It's a .mpg file.
  So, here's the problem. The darn thing dosen't work! I can't play it back in MC or Windows Media Player. When using WMP it'll check the codec server but it will not find a usable codec.

So I've tried variues codecs but nothing seems to work. I can, however, play it back with Media Player Classic. In Mc it will only play the sound (a horrible techno mix... I think it's made by some teenage girls.) At first it played back turned around when using MPC, but now it plays right (I uninstalled some codecs.)

So, I would really appreciate some help on this one. I would also like to transcode it to something els which will be able to play on all computers corrects, as potential customers may have the same problem as we're haveing.

So, I have to look into a german paper for tommorow :-\

Thanks in advance,
Rasmus
 
Title: Re:Can't Play Video - Please Help
Post by: JimH on August 19, 2004, 01:46:16 pm
I wonder if it is MPEG4.  Try renaming it mov.  Try playing it in Quicktime.
Title: Re:Can't Play Video - Please Help
Post by: pank2002 on August 19, 2004, 02:51:05 pm
Didn't work with .mov. If it can help it's around 225mb and 7:21 (to say something about compression.)

Here's my sys specs if it helps:
Media Center Registered 11.0.53 -- C:\Programmer\J River\Media Center 11\

Microsoft Windows 2000  Workstation 5.0 Service Pack 4 (Build 2195)
Intel Pentium III 1102 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 261 MB, Free - 20 MB

Internet Explorer: 6.0.2800.1106 / ComCtl32.dll: 5.81 / Shlwapi.dll: 6.00.2800.1400 / Shell32.dll: 5.00.3700.6705 / wnaspi32.dll: N/A
Ripping /   Drive G: LITE-ON LTR-48125W        Mode:Normal  Type:Auto  Speed:Max
  Drive H:   Mode:Normal  Type:Auto  Speed:Max
  Digital playback: Yes /  Use YADB: Yes /  Get cover art: No /  Calc replay gain: Yes /  Copy volume: 32767
  Eject after ripping: Yes /  Play sound after ripping: No  

Burning /  Drive G: LITE-ON  LTR-48125W         Addr: 1:0:0  Speed:20  MaxSpeed:48  BurnProof:Yes
  Test mode: No /  Eject after writing: Yes /  Direct decoding: Yes /  Write CD-Text: Yes
  Use playback settings: No /  Normalization: None
Title: Re:Can't Play Video - Please Help
Post by: JimH on August 19, 2004, 02:57:36 pm
Sounds like it isn't compressed.  Try the people who made the movie.
Title: Re:Can't Play Video - Please Help
Post by: pank2002 on August 20, 2004, 07:49:49 am
So if anybody got an idea how to play this file please help me out here.
Thansk.
Title: Re:Can't Play Video - Please Help
Post by: Monkeyboy on August 20, 2004, 10:14:14 am
Try ffdshow, it can decode many types of video.
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=53761 (http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=53761)
If it is compressed and you cant play it after installing that I would be supprised.
Like Jim said 225mb is large for 7:21 of compressed video.
Rich