You should upgrade this machine to Service Pack 1.
Your camera is likely producing a strange form of AVI - Service Pack 1
readds support for that strange form (non-PCM PCM AVI).
When will you ever stop trying to blindly defend Microsoft crap?
Curious, I found Mr. Z saying this in a forum:
http://www.vistax64.com/vista-music-pictures-video/116377-no-sound-avi-files.html
"This AVI file is using the data structure PCMWAVEFORMAT for non-PCM
WAVE data (read: it's using a codec that it's suggesting it's not
going to use). The Vista AVI parser is going to reject this as being
invalid, which is exactly what you're seeing.
The Vista SP1 AVI parser relaxes this restriction, so the clips should
play fine on Vista SP1. They will not work in Vista RTM using the
system AVI parser. An alternate player with its own AVI parser would
likely also be able to play the file. Or you could convert the clip to
use a different codec."
Translation: Z admits Vista AS SHIPPED was broken in that it refused
to play a common file type, no explanation, only confirmation Vista's
AVI parser rejects a perfectly acceptable file type and then goes on
to suggest you use another player. I love it! That's like going to a
Toyota dealer to buy a truck and they tell you their trucks suck, go
to a Ford dealership if you need to drive a truck.
You want to know how screwed up Vista really is? Time for another
example.
I can create a industry standard 100% compliant video using Sony's
professional grade Vegas video editor. It confirms precisely to NTSC
(National Television System Committee) specs with regard to MPEG-2
requirements, typically used to make a DVD. When I open the file in
Media player, it plays correctly one time, then if Media Player is set
to repeat, watch Media Player stumble and only show a screen full of
horizontal lines, the video itself totally un viewable.
Naturally only Media Player is stupid enough to play a file correctly
on the first pass, then be totally unable to replay it the second
time.
I'm sure you got some excuse for this build-in stupidity. What is it?
