Help with Windows Media player!

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Help with Windows Media player!

Postby Lord_Kouga » Sat Mar 27, 2004 11:04 am

lol im such a newb....i have downloaded lots of amv's but all the ones that are suppose to play in windows media player have no video....it acts like they are just songs or something. I have audio but no video feed what so ever, the screen just has the usually cool graphics when your playing a song. Thanks for any help.
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Postby Corran » Sat Mar 27, 2004 1:28 pm

Sounds like you need codecs to decode the videos.

Go to http://www.doom9.org
click on the download link and download the file called Gordian Knot Codec Pack 1.6


Once installed you should be able to play back almost everything on this site.
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Postby Patroxx » Mon Apr 05, 2004 3:14 pm

I also recommend the newest Nimo Codec pack, there are almost all necessary Audio and Video Codecs in it....
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Postby Corran » Mon Apr 05, 2004 3:19 pm

Nimo is the Devil Incarnate


Gordian Knot is bliss.


:P
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Postby Jnzk » Mon Apr 05, 2004 3:28 pm

Corran Productions wrote:Nimo is the Devil Incarnate

Indeed. But installing codecs separately > codec packs. :P
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Postby Kalium » Mon Apr 05, 2004 3:36 pm

Corran Productions wrote:Gordian Knot is bliss.


Just watch out for the malware in their version of DivX.
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Postby Corran » Mon Apr 05, 2004 3:53 pm

Yeah I don't install that part.
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Postby bum » Tue Apr 06, 2004 10:14 am

man honestly do what janzki said and install the codecs speerately. it might take longer and be a bit of a pain, but it'l let you customise the installation and thiers less chance of things fucking up
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Postby NineTailsNefus » Sat Apr 10, 2004 8:55 pm

I'm having the same problem as Kouga. Only I have a mac so I'm betting that makes it worse. ^_^; I downloaded the codec, but the .exe makes it open up in Mircosoft Excel and I get a bunch of mumbo jumbo spewed at me. -_-
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Postby akicafe » Mon Apr 12, 2004 8:12 am

If you have a mac, I'd recommend downloading VLC to play your videos with:

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

not only does it play most quicktime and windows based formats, but it also opens DVD and VCD files.

otherwise, just do a google search for "mac video codec" and you can find a whole bunch of sources for both the popular, and obscure components, for mac.

If you have a slower mac (G3, 1ghz or less) I would recommend converting AVI files to quicktime MOV files using Divx Doctor
http://doctor.3ivx.com/

hope this helps ^_^
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