I suppose i should say first off hi and this is my first post even though i've joined this forum nearly a year ago, but I just have a small problem.
I've recently decided to finish my AMV so i can enter it in a con im going to in september, and I've encoded it as an AVI using the Xvid codec (my movie editor wont let me encode in to mpeg and i cant afford to pay to get Tmpgenc.) But when I go to play it on Windows Media Player (I've got version 10) it plays fine, but when it stops WMP has a fit and comes up with one of those 'Experienced error and needs to close' messages (You know- the one where it asks you if you wanna send a report.)
Is this a common problem and what can i do to fix this?
Xvid and Windows media player
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Dime_fan3
- Joined: Tue Oct 11, 2005 10:59 pm
- Location: Victoria, Australia
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Keeper of Hellfire
- Joined: Sun Jan 09, 2005 6:13 am
- Location: Germany
It's simple. Don't use WMP10. It's a resource eating, buggy, spyware infected piece of shit.
Take a look at the playback guide for Windows.
Take a look at the playback guide for Windows.
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shiro_clanclan
- Joined: Sun Jun 09, 2002 8:59 pm
- Location: Concord, CA
Set up correctly, WMP is little more than a little more resource-hungry than the other media player programs.
I would wager a guess that your problem isn't actually with Windows Media Player at all, but is instead a problem with your codecs. To further my guess, I think you may have DivX and XviD installed at the same time, both of which are set to decode all known FourCCs. Which creates a problem where two decoders try to run for the same video... and that causes issues. Then there's also running FFDshow and having it decode the same thing... essentially, it's just having a messy codec setup.
I would recommend uninstalling all the codecs your have (unless you prefer to encode to DivX... I don't, so I simply don't have it), then installing XviD (Koepi's binary) and CCCP. Set XviD to decode all known FourCCs. Using this setup, your playback programs (including Windows Media Player) will run using CCCP while your video editing software will use XviD to encode and decode XviD/DivX material. My system runs this setup and has no problems at all in the playback department, even using Windows Media Player.
Links:
CCCP: http://cccp-project.net
XviD: http://koepi.org/XviD-1.1.0-30122005.exe
If you think it's something else, I'd be happy to help.
I would wager a guess that your problem isn't actually with Windows Media Player at all, but is instead a problem with your codecs. To further my guess, I think you may have DivX and XviD installed at the same time, both of which are set to decode all known FourCCs. Which creates a problem where two decoders try to run for the same video... and that causes issues. Then there's also running FFDshow and having it decode the same thing... essentially, it's just having a messy codec setup.
I would recommend uninstalling all the codecs your have (unless you prefer to encode to DivX... I don't, so I simply don't have it), then installing XviD (Koepi's binary) and CCCP. Set XviD to decode all known FourCCs. Using this setup, your playback programs (including Windows Media Player) will run using CCCP while your video editing software will use XviD to encode and decode XviD/DivX material. My system runs this setup and has no problems at all in the playback department, even using Windows Media Player.
Links:
CCCP: http://cccp-project.net
XviD: http://koepi.org/XviD-1.1.0-30122005.exe
If you think it's something else, I'd be happy to help.
