Windows Media Player Help

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Hi -
I just downloaded huge videoclip.. 50 minutes long, 162 megabytes, and whenever i try to view it in windows media player it wont show the picture (video).. it just shows that your showing like a music file and shows all the effect things. and only shows the sound, and not the video. I know its a videoclip, it says it on the computer and is in MPEG format. whenever i go in my computer, then find my videofile, then go to preview it says

"Video not available, cannot find 'vids:MP43' decompressor.. I am assuming that there is something wrong with my windows media player because it says it can't find the 'vids:MP43 decompressor" i'm thinking MP stands for media player.. so if anyone can help me on this, this file took SSSOOOO long to download and it would really suck if i can't view it, so if you know ANYTHING please reply.

thanks.

 

[MommaKin]

Is it an actual *.mpeg file?
What version of Media Player do you have?

Hi -
I just downloaded huge videoclip.. 50 minutes long, 162 megabytes, and whenever i try to view it in windows media player it wont show the picture (video).. it just shows that your showing like a music file and shows all the effect things. and only shows the sound, and not the video. I know its a videoclip, it says it on the computer and is in MPEG format. whenever i go in my computer, then find my videofile, then go to preview it says

"Video not available, cannot find 'vids:MP43' decompressor.. I am assuming that there is something wrong with my windows media player because it says it can't find the 'vids:MP43 decompressor" i'm thinking MP stands for media player.. so if anyone can help me on this, this file took SSSOOOO long to download and it would really suck if i can't view it, so if you know ANYTHING please reply.

thanks.

 

[danielson]

yeah
its really annoying when you get the vaseline and the tissues out and the damn video is sound only




you need a 'codec' to be able to see the vid. try www.download.com or something

 

[Bodhidogma]

u may need to download a DIVX codec. just do a search and you should have no trouble finding one.

 

[cure]

it might be divx codec or any codec actually. It should download a codec straight from the site.

 

[danielson]

divx is avi if memory serves me right, i might be wrong so download it anyway

try mpeg4 too though

 

[MrMuscle]

get Windows XP and the media player automatically dowloads new codecs as the come

 

[thefantom1]

You need an older version of Media player or download the MP43 codec...you can probably find it on the net.......

 

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yea, I found it a while back. I had to search for the file and downloaded the codec from a site and now it works fine.