Codec Help please...windows media player help?

[Amy]

ummm err Okay....

I have this file on my PC called a 'video clip' that is the type of file it is. I will not 'play' fully in my windows media player, I mean it will but not all the way. It IS a movie clip, yet I open it in media player and it plays the sound, but the screen of media player does that well, like when I play a MP3 or music file.

Okay, I have had this file awhile, and it 'played' fine before my PC had to be 'restored' a few months or so ago. I remember I had something called a Codec (yeah I know there are alot of those, and not sure what I am needing or seeking, I just know I had one that apparently was erased, sorta happens when you restore your PC umm anyway)

I do remember the codec that I had that was needed and played well most any and all movie type files was something called or had something to do with DIVX.... not DIVX player, soryr I do not like that thing, it was a little codec plug in that went into normal windows media player that allowed you to well view most all movie file types.

So am asking pelase, well Okay begging even, anyone know or can pass along any Codecs that I need or would help please?

Also, again the 'file' itself is a 'video clip file', I have seen a few of these before, and strange 'some' play okay and this one does not, it is not, I do not know or think an avi or mpeg, or maybe it is, just saying what file type is claims it is now.... err anyway any help please is needed and well wished, please.

Ummm err also makes me wonder, say I know not like we have a 'million' people here or so, but what about a forum to itself for Computer and PC help or such? Just wondering...err you know.

~Amy

[LiquidManZero]

Codec Help please...windows media player help?

Try installing this:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/f...2.exe?download

If that doesn't work, you can always download the normal divx codec, but thtat thing is pretty big. That would be somewhere around http://www.divx.com

[Amy]

Codec Help please...windows media player help?

:? ummm I get that file, is it very small, I get it downloaded pretty fast, it says it is like 14KBs and then says it is not a valid application. :?

~Amy

[Amy]

Codec Help please...windows media player help?

ummmm I already have that, DivX521ME98 it does not help nor effect 'this' type of movie file, it is a Video Clip file (not Movie Clip file) and strange 'other' video clips play but this one, the picture never comes up.

It does this whole stupid windows routine of 'locating xodec server, sending requests, error downloading codec, etc, etc, etc...it does that eactime I try to play and as said, that dixc, or whatever seeming is not what I am missing as I thought it was,

It must be some other codec type?

Really confused, a 'long' time ago, Tru sent me a codec that pretty much fixxed and played any and all movie file types, now that I lost it, no idea what it even is or was.... :cry:

If all come to this, is there a way to 'convert' this video clip' to an mpeg file or such maybe?

Also abit more that may help say what peoblem is.... it was once three different 'video clip files' that I joined together as one big file a long time ago (last accessed/moddified 8/19/01 which has been a good long while, I know) (last moddified as in well you know once you create a file or such it logs the last time it was modified) anywya has been a while.

Otherwsie, not sure what Tru sent me way back then when he was around and all, but it was soime codec that made it work, also it is a combined video clip, three into one, that may be what the issue is? If so anyway to maybe now 'convert' it over to what can be read in a simple way.

Thing is well...blahhh you know with time and all, I forgot what the codec was, ofcorse, and what all else other emss I once had that even allowed me to combine the files together...so abit stuck here. :roll: :cry:

~Amy

[LiquidManZero]

Codec Help please...windows media player help?

I admit right now that I am currently drunk, but that will not stop me from trying to help you.

The file I linked is about 2 MB, and I've made a copy of it here:

http://65.110.43.80/~gshi/lmz/ffdshow.exe
I'm almost certain this will play anything short of windows media player v9 format, and even such random things as psx video/audio files. But if it's not about 2 MB, there must have been a problem downloading it. I'm really sorry if this doesn't help, but I will keep trying to think of what might help anyway. All I know is, this codec should be able to play 90% of all video/audio formats. If it doesn't, there's not much I can do from somebody else's computer...

[Amy]

Codec Help please...windows media player help?

ummm.... Okay still no luck with all those things downloaded, other then that VLC Media Player, (someone told me about that on messager)and not really a fan of that, I am sorry, just not, it 'plays' but it jumps, sticks and goes, sticks and goes, that sorta thing. and no replay, like windows and such (my fav, crapy but still I like the reply and the sizes you can have it at (full screen yet have controls there as well)

Anyway I was also told about this GSpot, it tells 'what codec you are missing for files, and it claims this. I am missing Codec 4CC-I263 also FFmpeg I263 decoder. (anyone needs or wanst this small program some 200 or so KBs, just google for it, it is easy to find.)

Okay 'new' issues as well, after I put in all that 'codec' mess err well 'now' it ruined 'any and ALL' of my files that are called. 'Video Clip' now the ones I had that would play now no longer play, ever sense I tried to get this one important one to play...so again stuck and not sure what to do, please....

~Amy

[LiquidManZero]

Codec Help please...windows media player help?

Either you can try right clicking on the video files, going to properties, and hitting the 'change' button, or you could try using <a href="http://download.nullsoft.com/winamp/client/winamp508c_full_emusic-7plus.exe">winamp 5</a> (4.36 MB).

I just noticed this, you could fix your sig image by replacing <img="http://arcentral.net/Amy/randompicava.php"> with
<img src="http://arcentral.net/Amy/randompicava.php">

[Amy]

Codec Help please...windows media player help?

ummmm.... well no idea really how to get it to play once again in windows media player? I do not mean to be a pain or anything, just that well windows media is my favorite, and seems sorta a pain to have all different players for all types of files on my PC.... which is why I pretty much hate anything Realplayer files and quicktime mov files. They should really make media player play well anything.... as those programs are rather large.

So anyway sorry for being a pain, but anyway to get the older codecs like it says it wants and needs?

By the way otherwise, thank you for the little how to on the sig, I was all confused as to why that was not working right, as I know the image 'tags' were right, and more odd is it is the same as posted on 'other' UBB boards, same type we have here. ....woooo gosh *sighes* that is what drives the world mad about computers.... :roll: I mean no disrespect, but gahhh the way the PC world is, something that works perfectly a day before does not work the day after and you have to edit, get plug ins, players, programs, drivers and all that mess that eats your HD space just to get back to something close to PC 'nomalty' the way it used to be.

~Amy