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On 26/09/11 19:16, Rob Beard wrote: > On 26/09/11 18:19, paul sutton wrote: >> HI >> >> having just copied a few episodes of "star trek new voyages" to a dvd, I >> tried to have a go at playing back the video (avi) windows media player >> opens and decides by some weird logic to play it as an audio file >> complete with the effects, giving up i switched over to Linux and played >> the file on the portable hdd, through movie player and it works. >> >> Upon loading in to media player on Windows it seemed to suggest it was >> going to download the required files to play it, lol >> >> anyway season 4 episodes 1,2, and 4 - 6 (i am working on ep 3) are now >> on dvd. :) >> >> Why is it windows does stupid things. >> >> Paul >> > > It's not doing stupid things, it just didn't have the codecs > installed. Was it Windows XP by any chance? yeah, just using it to play games. > > I'm guessing that you're maybe running Linux Mint (which has non-free > codecs pre-installed) or Ubuntu and you're running it through mplayer > or you've either installed the gstreamer codecs or w32codecs from > Medibuntu? Ubuntu > > IIRC Windows XP will play WAV audio, MP3 audio, MPEG 1 video and > WMV/WMA format files out of the box, and if you install a newer > version of Media Player it'll also play MPEG2 video and DVD video, but > if you want XVID/DIVX/MP4 format video, or OGG, FLAC etc audio then > you have to install a codec. Personally I'd recommend the Combined > Community Codec Pack. Just avi file. > > IIRC XVID and DIVX codecs came out after Windows XP (thinking back, > I'm sure the early versions of DIVX were hacks of the Windows Media > codecs) and in the early days if you wanted to play DVDs you needed a > DVD player application (or hardware decoder). > > You'll find Vista and Windows 7 have better support out of the box. Well they are newer, Windows and office are for people who have too much money and can afford it. > > Oh, and try playing the videos on a freshly installed Debian or Fedora > system, I'm sure you'll find similar issues... > > http://tinyurl.com/6hj7qj9 > http://wiki.debian.org/MultimediaCodecs > > Don't get me wrong, I'm not standing up for Windows, but I'd hardly > call it a Windows fail. Ok > > Rob > -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq