Problems with my video

Skyliner · Post by **Skyliner** » Tue May 13, 2003 11:16 pm

Hey, I just recently uploaded a video to my host. A few people downloaded it but some complained that there was no video to the audio, others complained it wouldn't work. The video worked on mine and others' computers. The people who complained about no video used windows 98. I used WMM2 to make the video, and it was automatically compressed using the Windows Media Audio 9 Audio Compression Codec, and the Windows Media Video 9 Video Compression Codec. I was wondering if there was any way I could fix it so that they could view the video. The video is in WMV format, because for some odd reason when I convert to an AVI it goes up to nearly 800 Megabytes, even with compression. I don't understand it at all.. If someone can help me that would be great.. please do so in this forum or on AIM, thank you so much.

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Tue May 13, 2003 11:30 pm

I belive newer versions of Windows Media can only be played in Media Player 7+. Unless you get some hacked codecs to install for WMP 6.4. I am guessing these people can't play it back because they're using a older version of media player.

You could try could try using version 8 instead of 9, but that's lesser quality.

I would highly reccomend you encode your videos to a AVI, using XviD compression. "AVI" is a container, it contains video/audio streams, it has nothing to do with how big or large your file gets. That is the job of the codec. You're probably using a really crappy codec, or you're not using one at all. Also you need to use a audio codec as well. I would reccomend MP3.

Check out the guides off the main page, they're rather lengthy, but they are thorough.

~klinky

Ashyukun · Post by **Ashyukun** » Wed May 14, 2003 7:49 am

Hmmm. That could explain why one of the vids I DL'd a little while back isn't working... though I'd think it should, since one of my computers is running XP, and I let if download the updates it thinks it should. Shouldn't XP have higher than WiMP 7?

RETRO HELIX · Post by **RETRO HELIX** » Fri May 16, 2003 10:18 am

well, i have win98 but i can see all wmv types, the problem is that if you use the 9 series compression everyone has to have wmp 9 too, thats the main thing, another thing you could do is get windows media encoder, i dont know if wmm2 has the MPEG-4 V3 video codec but if you dont get the program i just told you, now since theres no problem with the audio youre set, but if you still do try using a different audio codec