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Essential Free Media Software If you're having problems viewing videos you may have downloaded from the internet, this is usually fixed very quickly...
The playback of SVCD or DVD-Compliant files requires an MPEG2 codec. Stinky's MPEG2 Codec is free: http://www.free-codecs.co..._Codec.htm MPEG4 files may require a number of codecs to view... To be on the safe side, I'd install all these: http://www.free-codecs.co...FDShow.htm http://www.free-codecs.co...wnload.htm http://www.xvidmovies.com/codec/ Even if you can play back the file, you may only see the picture but hear no audio. It's more than likely that the audio isn't MP2 or MP3 but AC3 (Dolby Digital Sound). Here's a free AC3 codec: http://ac3filter.sourceforge.net/ Now if you can see the picture and hear the music but the picture looks "squashed" or constrained unnaturally, try installing this MPEG Filter: http://www.free-codecs.co...ilters.htm If that still doesn't work, try using the VLC Media Player. It'll usually play EVERYTHING: http://www.videolan.org/ If all this still doesn't help you, try burning the file to a CD or DVD and playing on your television's DVD Player. If the file extension is ".avi", burn the file to a Data Disc. If the file extension is ".mpg", burn the file to a Video CD, Super Video CD or DVD Video. An ".mpg" file may be MPEG1 or MPEG2-encoded and these need to be burned to CDs in differing ways... A program like G-Spot will be able to tell you which encoder was used: http://www.headbands.com/...nload.html but most video files found on the internet will offer some basic information about their format, within the filename. | |
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thanks justin...
didn't have much else to do today then eh?  | |
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I always use the VLC media player.
Like you said, it mostly plays everything | |
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JPW said: didn't have much else to do today then eh?
Um... Enquiring minds wanted to know. | |
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Tom said: Oh yeah, I forgot about the FLV Splitter contained in that codec pack. | |
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Justin1972UK said: Tom said: Oh yeah, I forgot about the FLV Splitter contained in that codec pack. What's an FLV splitter? Does it split long movies in half? I'm looking for something that does that. I've tried a few and they didn't work. M MyeternalgrattitudetoPhil&Val.Herman said "We want sweaty truckers at the truck stop! We want cigar puffing men that look like they wanna beat the living daylights out of us" Val"sporking is spooning with benefits" | |
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Justin1972UK said: If you're having problems viewing videos you may have downloaded from the internet, this is usually fixed very quickly...
The playback of SVCD or DVD-Compliant files requires an MPEG2 codec. Stinky's MPEG2 Codec is free: http://www.free-codecs.co..._Codec.htm MPEG4 files may require a number of codecs to view... To be on the safe side, I'd install all these: http://www.free-codecs.co...FDShow.htm http://www.free-codecs.co...wnload.htm http://www.xvidmovies.com/codec/ Even if you can play back the file, you may only see the picture but hear no audio. It's more than likely that the audio isn't MP2 or MP3 but AC3 (Dolby Digital Sound). Here's a free AC3 codec: http://ac3filter.sourceforge.net/ Now if you can see the picture and hear the music but the picture looks "squashed" or constrained unnaturally, try installing this MPEG Filter: http://www.free-codecs.co...ilters.htm If that still doesn't work, try using the VLC Media Player. It'll usually play EVERYTHING: http://www.videolan.org/ If all this still doesn't help you, try burning the file to a CD or DVD and playing on your television's DVD Player. If the file extension is ".avi", burn the file to a Data Disc. If the file extension is ".mpg", burn the file to a Video CD, Super Video CD or DVD Video. An ".mpg" file may be MPEG1 or MPEG2-encoded and these need to be burned to CDs in differing ways... A program like G-Spot will be able to tell you which encoder was used: http://www.headbands.com/...nload.html but most video files found on the internet will offer some basic information about their format, within the filename. can you use this info to spy on neighbours who sell crack...? | |
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MIGUELGOMEZ said: Does it split long movies in half? I'm looking for something that does that. I've tried a few and they didn't work.
M I can send you something that does work - well on VOB files and MPEG files. Not avi files... | |
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PurpleRein said: can you use this info to spy on neighbours who sell crack...?
Oh. I have a bit of an update on that... | |
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Justin1972UK said: JPW said: didn't have much else to do today then eh?
Um... Enquiring minds wanted to know.  sorry, if you didn't have the knowledge of that, well... it looks like a very techy post for no apparent reason. | |
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