My brother sent me an email with a small video as an MPG attachment… but I don’t get any video in windows media player. It just tried to treat it as an audio file. I don’t think it uses a funky codec or anything. Any ideas? Running Media Player 9 on XP.
Try downloading Irfanview and see if that will do it.
May want to try the DivX codec. Download.com should have codecs/players.
Either it’s been sent incomplete, or it does use a funky codec (or at least one you don’t have). You should be able to determine that by looking at the file properties in Media Player.
Sounds like missing codec to me. Maybe DivX.
It’s not DivX-- divx movies have an AVI extension.
If you’re not getting the video, possibly it’s MPEG-2, which doesn’t come native with Windows, like MPEG-1 does. (MPEG-2 used for SVCD & DVD.)
Since the MPEG-2 codec is proprietary, it’s hard to find freeware that will support it, since they authors are obliged to pay for the license. Try downloading PowerDVD. Once it’s installed, you should have the codec, and it’ll work with Windows Media Player, too. No idea if the codec continues to work after the trial period expires, though.
OOC, are DIVX files ever saves as MPEGs? All the ones I’ve ever seen or made were saved as AVIs.
Uh, or a .div, .divx, or .mp4 extension, apparently, though I’ve never seen anyone encode a divx file with those, because you know that the great unwashed aren’t going to be able to deal with it if they’re asked to select an association for an unknown filetype.
Also, My Media Player 2 will not play MPEG2 (DVD) files correctly and other specific codecs every time. Sometimes it will, sometimes it won’t. But PowerDVD seems to play everything every time. You might want to try that. Just one of those mysteries of computer science.
Thanks for the advice - I have Power DVD, I will install it and see what it does.
Well, didn’t work. However, it appears it is an ATI VCR1 codec, which I downloaded from ATI.
Still didn’t work.
Oh well.
You can check in the control panel - Multimedia - devices - video codecs to see what codecs you have installed and see if you have the one you need. It does sound like a codec missing. Check with your brotehr to see which codecs he has.
I don’t know if this will work for you, but it worked for me. I am still using WMP 8. There were a few clips that I would only get the audio for, no video. These were clips posted to web sites or in forums, and other people could see them and commented on them. So I knew it was my problem. I poked around in Windows Media Player, and I had the “automatically download codecs” unchecked. I rechecked that, went back to one of the video clips I couldn’t veiw before, opened it, the media player downloaded the codec I needed, and I could view the clip fine.
Try the program AVIcodec. It will show you exactly what codec you need and tell you where to get it. Despite the name, it also works with MPEG, ASF, and other file types.