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Sent from my iPhone On 29 Sep 2011, at 09:23, Simon Robert -Cottage <simon.robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The media player VLC comes with support for pretty much very codec known to > humanity (well the linux version anyhow). So you could try the windows version, > you maybe be prompted for codec downloads if they're not included. It's also good > on subtitles as you can choose which file to open and don't need to muck about > re-naming and moving the sub file to the same directory... > > Simon > > On 26/09/11 19:49, Rob Beard wrote: >> On 26/09/11 19:23, paul sutton wrote: >>> 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. >> >> AVI is the container (basically the file that wraps up the video and audio, and >> optionally subtitle content in a snuggly warm blanket). Other containers could be >> MKV or OGG :-) >> >> It sounds like Windows Media player looked at the file and worked out from the >> stream IDs that it was maybe a DIVX or XVID format video and MP3 audio track. It >> could play the MP3 audio as it understands how to decode it (thanks to the codec >> which is included with Windows), but it sounds like it wasn't able to decode the >> video stream (okay it is a bit annoying that Microsoft don't make it available). >> >> The same would happen on Linux if it didn't have the codecs installed (although >> on some distros it could well prompt to install the codecs if available). Not >> sure about Macs, I'd hazard a guess that at least newer versions of OSX would >> have a basic few codecs built in, possibly in iTunes. >> >> >>>> >>>> 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. >> >> Not necessarily, quite a few people buy PCs with Windows pre-installed, some with >> Office pre-installed (although I really don't like what Microsoft were peddling, >> a cut down version of Office that only worked so many times), now it seems to >> have an ad-supported version of Office included. I always recommend LibreOffice >> or OpenOffice over MS Office. I do also recommend Linux but some people just >> aren't interested in switching, seems to be about 75% stick with Windows and 25% >> give Linux a try, I can convince them more if they have a really old PC, such as >> a friend of mine I am sorting a laptop out for (P3 700 with 384MB Ram and an 8GB >> hard drive). >> >> Some people also take advantage of things like the educational discounts on >> Windows and (Office 2010 Pro full version for about 38 quid and Windows 7 Pro >> upgrade for about 39 quid). >> >>>> >>>> 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 >> ITunes plays most codecs on my mac, but when it doesn't I use VLC for mac, it >> plays everything. 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