Playing movies

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I recently signed up at a download site and have downloaded several movies
but I haven't been able to play them back on any of my installed players.
I have Windows media 9,Real Player, Quicktime. and DivX but none of these
will play the movies. they all state that there are missing codecs.
Can you tell me what I need to do in order to play these movies.
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Bear

 

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Unless you tell us what the file extensions are we have no idea exactly what
you might need. The other usual codecs are XVid.
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Cari (MS-MVP)
Printing & Imaging

In Loving Memory of our dear friend Alex Nichol MVP

"Beardean" <russ_merentha@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:2684A9A7-7716-4A6D-AB2F-C5B97F70ADE2@microsoft.com...
>I recently signed up at a download site and have downloaded several movies
> but I haven't been able to play them back on any of my installed players.
> I have Windows media 9,Real Player, Quicktime. and DivX but none of these
> will play the movies. they all state that there are missing codecs.
> Can you tell me what I need to do in order to play these movies.
> --
> Bear
>

 

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On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 22:48:22 -0800, "Cari \(MS-MVP\)"
<Newsgroups1@coribright.com> wrote:

>Unless you tell us what the file extensions are we have no idea exactly what
>you might need. The other usual codecs are XVid.
Is it possible that this user is using XP's default settings which is
to "hide extensions for known file types" ?

A confusing setting which always seemed like a dumb idea to me.
It sure keeps newbies in the dark.

Dave

 

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I downloaded the mpeg4 codec and was able to play one of the movies but there
are still two that I can't play. One is file extension Divx(www.uri
movies.tk).avi
the other is video clip avi. One states that it encountered an unknown error
and the other states missing codec.
thanks. Bear

"Beardean" wrote:

> I recently signed up at a download site and have downloaded several movies
> but I haven't been able to play them back on any of my installed players.
> I have Windows media 9,Real Player, Quicktime. and DivX but none of these
> will play the movies. they all state that there are missing codecs.
> Can you tell me what I need to do in order to play these movies.
> --
> Bear

 

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Download and install G-Spot....
http://www.headbands.com/gspot/

It will tell you exactly which codecs you need.
--
Cari (MS-MVP)
Printing & Imaging

In Loving Memory of our dear friend Alex Nichol MVP

"Beardean" <Beardean@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:F6821842-329A-4352-953C-CE325C93DA70@microsoft.com...
>I downloaded the mpeg4 codec and was able to play one of the movies but
>there
> are still two that I can't play. One is file extension Divx(www.uri
> movies.tk).avi
> the other is video clip avi. One states that it encountered an unknown
> error
> and the other states missing codec.
> thanks. Bear
>
> "Beardean" wrote:
>
>> I recently signed up at a download site and have downloaded several
>> movies
>> but I haven't been able to play them back on any of my installed players.
>> I have Windows media 9,Real Player, Quicktime. and DivX but none of these
>> will play the movies. they all state that there are missing codecs.
>> Can you tell me what I need to do in order to play these movies.
>> --
>> Bear
>

 

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I am having the same problem, as you mesioned to download the G-Spot..... I
did but still I'm not able to play the Xvid file in Window Media Player.


"Cari (MS-MVP)" wrote:

> Download and install G-Spot....
> http://www.headbands.com/gspot/
>
> It will tell you exactly which codecs you need.
> --
> Cari (MS-MVP)
> Printing & Imaging
>
> In Loving Memory of our dear friend Alex Nichol MVP
>
> "Beardean" <Beardean@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:F6821842-329A-4352-953C-CE325C93DA70@microsoft.com...
> >I downloaded the mpeg4 codec and was able to play one of the movies but
> >there
> > are still two that I can't play. One is file extension Divx(www.uri
> > movies.tk).avi
> > the other is video clip avi. One states that it encountered an unknown
> > error
> > and the other states missing codec.
> > thanks. Bear
> >
> > "Beardean" wrote:
> >
> >> I recently signed up at a download site and have downloaded several
> >> movies
> >> but I haven't been able to play them back on any of my installed players.
> >> I have Windows media 9,Real Player, Quicktime. and DivX but none of these
> >> will play the movies. they all state that there are missing codecs.
> >> Can you tell me what I need to do in order to play these movies.
> >> --
> >> Bear
> >
>
>
>
>