Can patch correct the problem ?

[come_mon_come_mon!]

Hi,

I'd downloaded some .avi files for playing with below players.

1. Windows Media Player 10.00.00.3646
2. Media Player Classic 6.4.8.5
3. RealPlayer 10.5
4. VLC Media Player 0.8.2

Except 4, all other 3 players ended with below execution exception
(reported by Microsoft Visual Studio .NET debugger)

"Unhandled exception at 0x0463683b in wmplayer.exe: 0xC0000094: Integer
division by zero."

I wanted to know why only VLC Meida Player could play the files with no
exception ? What should I do to enable all 4 players (or at least most)
could play the files with no exception ?

Below was Stream and Media info extracted from VLC Media Player 0.8.2
from one of the sample .avi file.

Stream 0
- Codec: XVID
- Language:
- Type: Video
- Resolution: 672x288
- Frame rate: 23.976043

Stream 1
- Codec: a52
- Language:
- Type: Audio
- Channels: 5
- Sample rate: 48000 Hz
- Bitrate: 448 kb/s

Stream 2
- Codec: a52
- Language:
- Type: Audio
- Sample rate: 48000 Hz
- Bitrate: 448 kb/s

Stream 3
- Codec: spu
- Language: English
- Type: Subtitle

Media-information
- Setting: HAS_INDEX_IS_INTERLEAVED

 

[Mike Lowery]

XviD is an open-source codec that the VLC player supports natively
(http://www.videolan.org/vlc/features.html). The other players you listed
likely do not (I know WMP doesn't.) AVI is just a package format that can
contain different types of encoding schemes and is not a codec by itself.

 

[come_mon_come_mon!]

Mike Lowery 写é“：

XviD is an open-source codec that the VLC player supports natively
(http://www.videolan.org/vlc/features.html). The other players you listed
likely do not (I know WMP doesn't.) AVI is just a package format that can
contain different types of encoding schemes and is not a codec by itself.

But from what I know, WMP should support playing avi files. Does that
mean WMP (include the freeware windows media player class) couldn't
recognize some properitary avi encoding format ?

 

[Mike Lowery]

Mike Lowery ??:

But from what I know, WMP should support playing avi files. Does that
mean WMP (include the freeware windows media player class) couldn't
recognize some properitary avi encoding format ?

I repeat: AVI is just a package format (container) that can contain any type of
encoding. WMP will NOT play all AVI files!

To quote Wikipedia: "An AVI file may therefore carry audio/visual data inside
the chunks in almost any compression scheme, including: Full Frames
(Uncompressed), Intel Real Time Video, Indeo, Cinepak, Motion JPEG, Editable
MPEG, VDOWave, ClearVideo / RealVideo, QPEG, MPEG-4, XviD, DivX and others."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVI

 

[Anonymous]

JeroenDeJong has brought this to us :

Eventhough there is a XviD videocodec for
Windows Media Player, but I can not remember where I got mine from
It's likely that media player will connect to the internet and cannot find
the apropriate codec. You have to install a codec package yourself

I use K-Lite's Mega Codec Pack and I haven't found a file that I cannot
play.

http://www.free-codecs.com/download/K_Lite_Mega_Codec_Pack.htm

 

[JeroenDeJong]

To quote Wikipedia: "An AVI file may therefore carry audio/visual data inside
the chunks in almost any compression scheme, including: Full Frames
(Uncompressed), Intel Real Time Video, Indeo, Cinepak, Motion JPEG, Editable
MPEG, VDOWave, ClearVideo / RealVideo, QPEG, MPEG-4, XviD, DivX and others."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVI

Eventhough there is a XviD videocodec for
Windows Media Player, but I can not remember where I got mine from
It's likely that media player will connect to the internet and cannot find
the apropriate codec. You have to install a codec package yourself

 

[jacaranda]

I use K-Lite's Mega Codec Pack and I haven't found a file that I
cannot play.

http://www.free-codecs.com/download/K_Lite_Mega_Codec_Pack.htm

Has anyone monitored the installation of this to see what kind of hit it
takes on the registry? I'm tempted to download, but not if it gives me a
lot of registry bloat.