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Media player in XP

Discussion in 'Windows XP' started by jeff, 2002/03/19.

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  1. 2002/03/19
    jeff

    jeff Inactive Thread Starter

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    My cousin sends me small zipped AVI's of her new baby. On my old computer w/ Windows 95, I could unzip and view them. On my new computer w/ Windows XP, I unzipped the AVI, but when I double click it, Media Player opens and I can hear the sound but can't see the video. Right before the sound starts playing, a message on Media Player says, "error downloading codec ".
    Any advice???? How do I find out which codec I'm missing??
    Please help!
     
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  2. 2002/03/22
    Arie

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    As a work-around, type mplayer2 in the Run box (Start > Run ). This will open Media Player 6.4. Now play the file here.....
     
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  4. 2002/03/23
    jeff

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    Still doesn't work

    Thanks Arie for your help!
    I tried what you said but it still didn't work. On my old computer, I had once downloaded some stuff from the Divx website. I wonder if I need to do that again?
     
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    Possibly....

    My Divx stuff migrated, but then I went from Win2K > WinXP....

    Still some Divx movies won't play in the XP media player, but do play in the 6.2 ver....
     
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  6. 2002/03/24
    jeff

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    Success!

    I downloaded the divx player, and it works!
    Thanks so much for trying to help me, Arie!
    I really appreciate it!!
    ..Jeff..
     
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