No. I resorted to using a W95 machine with an ATI video card to render the
video into some odd format that Vista seems to recognize so it will play in
WMP11.

The problem seems to be ATI related and something about their codecs.
Unless you have an ATI card they won't work. Your issue is probably
different.

Bart

"YB" wrote:

Have you found a solution? I'd like to play my video on Media player if
possible. The only other option I've found is downloading Quick Time Player.
I finally have sound on my AVI files.
Let me know if you have found any other solution.

"bartman" wrote:

It might not be magic, but it is still puzzling. Perhaps not to you, but
since this is the data on the file that I have already repeated, it is to me.

There is no error details under the content in the wmplayer.

Gspot says:

Codec is YVU9 and NO CODEC REQUIRED

That codec is some kind of raw format from ATI from what I have gathered. I
do not know where the "no codec required" is coming from since ATI clearly
requires something, but why it is strange is that the XP machine that this
file runs on perfectly has no ATI video capture card at all AND this codec is
not listed as being installed under XP so for whatever reason XP can play it
(which it shouldn't be able to do according to ATI since that machine doesn't
have their capture card) but Vista doesn't play it. Seems to me that XP has
a codec that is called something else, but it works with this file and Vista
does not.

Since I do not have time to figure out how a XP machine can play it when it
isn't supposed to and Vista cannot (yeah, I know, Vista doesn't have the
codec which gspot says isn't required anyway) I just took them to an old ATI
machine and converted them into another uncompressed format called DIB (RGB)
which is who knows what, but Vista seems to understand it and I can edit it.
I will have lost something in the conversion since it had to change formats,
but the results seem to be just about the same quality as the originals so
probably no harm done.

Bart



"zachd [MSFT]" wrote:


This isn't magic:
Your AVI file uses one video codec, and one audio codec.

What codecs does it use?

Those are broken or not present on your system.

This area of problem (I shall supply you a clip without indicating what
codec or tool you need to decode it) has been known for the past 13+ years
people have been using Win32. In the past content vendors would advise you
as to what codec was needed. I'm sorry that yours was not helpful in that
fashion. If you right-click on the content and select Error Details, Web
Help should likely indicate the codec that is missing. If not, GSpot Codec
tool should.

--
Speaking for myself only.
See http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info.
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
--
"Barry C J" wrote in message
...
I have similar problem - I just installed Gom Player on Vista Machine and
.avi files I have that won't work in WMP (just sound and black screen or
horrid visualizations) play perfectly.
Gom interface is better too!

Cheers
Barry


"bartman" wrote:

I could accept that if it weren't for the fact that it worked in both W95
media player and XP media player, but stopped working in Vista. Really,
there are probably thousands of people who will ultimately lose video
memories they have made that they used to be able to play just fine.

Bart



"zachd [MSFT]" wrote:


There were a number of third party codecs involved in the main Windows
mix
over the years. It may or may not be possible to provide support for
third
party codecs over the years.

This is a painful truth, sorry. The Lernout and Hauspie codec is
probably
the worst case scenario. =\

--
Speaking for myself only.
See http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info.
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
rights.
--

"bartman" wrote in message
...
I think I was able to use my old Windows 95 machine to make the file
into
something that Vista understands. It might have been possible in XP
as
well,
but I didn't want to purchase software with it when W95 was able to
see
the
file just fine.

Did no one at MS think that people may want to still use video clips
that
were created in older versions of Windows? I doubt the majority of
users
made them so they could scrap them all when they upgrade their OS.
It's
about as logical as taking photos and burning the prints when you buy
a
new
camera. 99.9999999% of videos people make of family and friends only
happens
once and can't be recreated each time there is a new OS.

Bart

"Kerry Brown" wrote:

It sounds like you are not running the command from from an elevated
command
prompt.

--
Kerry Brown
Microsoft MVP - Shell/User
http://www.vistahelp.ca


"bartman" wrote in message
...
Worth a try, but it makes no difference. File still doesn't play
the
video.

When I try the unistall I get an error that says, "The module
"ir50_32.dll"
was loaded but the call to dllunregisterserver failed with error
code
0x8000ffff". Doesn't sound good. I have a restore point just
before I
tried
this so hopefully that undoes my fix attempt properly.

I ran across this link that I tried to get information from, but
got
nothing
from the company.

http://www.ligos.com/index.php/home/products/indeo/

Know anything about this?

Bart

"Kerry Brown" wrote:

I have no idea what problems it could cause. I'm always
suspicious
when
something is not enabled by default. It may be a performance,
security,
or
who knows what issue. It may simply be someone forgot to write
the
code
register the file. If it does cause a problem you could easily
unregister
the file with the command

regsvr32 /u ir50_32.dll

If you register the file and it doesn't work or causes a problem
just
run
the above command in an elevated command prompt. You may have to
reboot
after registering and unregistering for it to take effect.

--
Kerry Brown
Microsoft MVP - Shell/User
http://www.vistahelp.ca/phpBB2/



"bartman" wrote in message
...
"May cause other problems"

What might I expect and is there a way to undo it if problems
arise?
I
don't want to blindly jump into something.

Thanks.

Bart


"Kerry Brown" wrote:

At an elevated command prompt type the following

regsvr32 ir50_32.dll

I think this is the codec you need. This should register the
codec
but
it
may cause other problems. There's probably a reason why it's
not
enabled
by
default. To get an elevated command prompt locate Command
Prompt in
All
Programs = Accessories. Right click on it and pick Run as
administrator.

--
Kerry Brown
Microsoft MVP - Shell/User
http://www.vistahelp.ca/phpBB2/


"bartman" wrote in message
...
Vista Home Premium and XP Professional.

Your links refer to either MPEG or Divx and my file is
neither.
It
is
an
uncompressed AVI file. It was not done with Divx. More
Information
I
have
found says "Planar ATI YUV9 Indeo". Gspot says that a codec
is
not
required
which is obviously false since it doesn't display video in
Vista.

If the proper codec is not supported in Vista is there
anyway in
the
existing XP system, without adding any new software, to
convert
it
to
something Vista understands and still keep it uncompressed?

Thanks.

Bart


"Kerry Brown" wrote:

You don't mention which version of Vista you have nor which
version
of
XP.
Some codec's require licensing and are not included in some
versions
of
Vista or XP. One of these codec's will most likely solve
your
problem.

http://www.xvid.org/

http://www.divx.com/

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win...dvdcodecs.aspx

--
Kerry Brown
Microsoft MVP - Shell/User
http://www.vistahelp.ca/phpBB2/