help with playing of movies

alphine · Guest

help pls.. i downloaded some shows but the fines have no type.. i tried to open them with media player.. winamp.. quicktime... but nothing works.. the sound comes out.. but theres no video... pls tell me wat to do Confused

Jsy3k · Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2005 2:04 pm Post subject:

One word: codec.

Do you have the required codec to play your video?? Try to install some of the codecs like DivX, XviD, Ogm Video and MKVs.
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DarkAeons · Heimin (Commoner) Joined: Aug 04, 2004 Posts: 66

he probably doesn't, the reason he can hear the sound but can watch the movie is: audio stream encoded in mp3 most of the time & mp3 is included in windows (and most of the OS I know) but mp4 codecs are usually to be downloaded

LiangZzZ · Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 9:00 am Post subject:

Go download VLC Player. It can play virtually almost any media files, including .ogm, .mkv, etc. No codecs needed for this program.

DrJackal · Jikan Samurai Joined: Mar 14, 2004 Posts: 979

Make sure you have installed the right codecs by using a program called gspot which you can get here

http://www.headbands.com/gspot/

This program displays the codec needed to play the file which if you search in google you can easily find.

An easier way would be to use VLC media player as liang suggested.

Aviator · newbie! Joined: Mar 10, 2005 Posts: 43

Video LAN Client is the best place to start. It ain't perfect, but it's the first player I try for a video file.

iceravent · Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2005 12:48 pm Post subject:

are there any disadvantages with VLC? Confused

DarkAeons · Heimin (Commoner) Joined: Aug 04, 2004 Posts: 66

the damn seek bar ?
You have to update the program to update the codecs, VLC is just an alternative to downloading codecs, I prefer to use codecs. I use them to encode video (can't do it with VLC).
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moNKboY5469 · Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 3:18 am Post subject:

Minor problem that's a bit of a pain so hopefully someone can help me out. I'm having trouble playing video files encoded with divx3. All files encoded with anything above that plays fine. Right now I only have the xvid codec installed but I've tried ffdshow, divx, and xvid all by themselves and in pairs and nothing. I see some of you have mentioned using VLC but I rather like using The Core Media Player. Unfortunately, I can never remember what I did to make them all work without a problem. It's a small problem but it's bugging the hell out of me, so if someone can help me out that'd be great.