Media Player 11 won't plan MPG files

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Ted Smith

I recently bought a new Compaq Presario with Vista for my wife. I
transferred some mpg files to it from this computer (XP) and tried to play
them. A 9 minute file screeches through in about one second with only a
weird audio noise like a robot talking into a tin can, and no video at all.
So I installed GomPlayer on her computer and it plays the files perfectly.
What do I need to do to get Media Player to play mpg files??

Ted Smith
 
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Ringmaster

I recently bought a new Compaq Presario with Vista for my wife. I
transferred some mpg files to it from this computer (XP) and tried to play
them. A 9 minute file screeches through in about one second with only a
weird audio noise like a robot talking into a tin can, and no video at all.
So I installed GomPlayer on her computer and it plays the files perfectly.
What do I need to do to get Media Player to play mpg files??

Pray.

Yes, Media Player is that bad. The problem with Media Player is even
if you have a suitable CODEC on your system that can play the file, it
often doesn't. If it does open the file it can start to play it then
five minutes into the vid, it might say it can't play it... and it
needs to shutdown. Then you might get Com Surrgate errors, or only the
video portion plays, no audio, or the audio is OK, but you get garbled
video or you have it set to repeat and the second time around the
video is nothing but a series of horizontal lines or the picture
becomes a negative or plays upside down.

As you already discovered GOM Player has no problems with most video
files. Two other good players also free are XnView and VLC Media
Player. All of these will at least attempt to play damaged or
corrupted files. A obvious feature. The idiots of Redmond deliberately
designed Media Player to give up if everything isn't pristine, then a
certain MS employee comes in here and tries to blame the video if
their player can't tame it, ignoring that just about any other player
can play it without issue.

That's like blaming the bread if your toaster burns the toast.

Some like to try to paint me as a Microsoft basher. No, I know how
things are suppose to work, and the fanboy crowd can't bare to hear
how often Microsoft screws things up.
 
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Ringmaster wrote:

You're a drunken idiot and everyone knows it!

By PowerUser:
"Licentious. Obnoxious. Anti-democratic. In case you can't tell, I'm
making a direct reference to Mr. Adam Albright. Before I launch into my
main topic, I want to make a few matters crystal-clear: (1) Failure to
recognize this salient point will result in Adam's getting free reign to
enshrine irrational fears and fancies as truth, and (2) as a result of
that, my observations are perhaps unique. Now that you know where I
stand on those issues, I can safely say that wily cutthroats like Adam
are not born -- they are excreted. However unsavory that metaphor may
be, Adam acts as if he were King of the World. This hauteur is
astonishing, staggering, and mind-boggling. He truly believes that he
defends the real needs of the working class. It is just such
counter-productive megalomania, muddleheaded egoism, and intellectual
aberrancy that stirs Adam to carve out space in the mainstream for
ungrateful politics.

I want to draw two important conclusions from this. The first is that
Adam and his gofers are wolves in sheep's clothing who will create
profound emotional distress for people on both sides of the issue
eventually, and the second is that the justification he gave for seeking
to judge people by the color of their skin while ignoring the content of
their character was one of the most addlepated justifications I've ever
heard. It was so addlepated, in fact, that I will not repeat it here.
Even without hearing the details you can still see my point quite
clearly: Adam keeps telling everyone within earshot that honesty and
responsibility have no cash value and are therefore worthless. I'm
guessing that Adam read that on some Web site of dubious validity. More
reliable sources generally indicate that he isn't as smart as he thinks
he is. As an interesting experiment, try to point this out to
Adam. (You might want to don safety equipment first.) I think you'll
find that if he had even a shred of intellectual integrity, he'd admit
that he has no evidence or examples to back up his point. Still, I
recommend you check out some of his commentaries and draw your own
conclusions on the matter. Adam teaches workshops on clericalism.
Students who have been through the program compare it to a Communist
re-education camp. Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to
repeat it. Of course, if Adam had learned anything from history, he'd
know that I challenge him to point out any text in this letter that
proposes that we ought to worship feckless mountebanks as folk heroes.
It isn't there. There's neither a hint nor a suggestion of such a thing.


We no longer have the luxury of indulging in universalist, altruistic
principles that, no matter how noble they may appear, have enabled the
most self-satisfied spouters I've ever seen to compose paeans to
irrationalism. Didn't Adam tell his comrades that he wants to make
people suspicious of those who speak the truth? Did he first give any
thought to what would happen if he did? Of course, that question is
ridiculous -- as ridiculous as his gormless platitudes. None but the
grotesque can deny that he says that the sun rises just for him. What he
means by this, of course, is that he wants free reign to threaten the
existence of human life, perhaps all life on the planet. I understand
that I become truly impatient with people who refuse to recognize the
key role that he is playing in the destruction of our civilization, but
from the fog and mist of his disquisitions rises the leering grimace of
nihilism. An equal but opposite observation is that I and Adam part
company when it comes to the issue of quislingism. He feels that
those who disagree with him should be cast into the outer darkness,
should be shunned, should starve, while I suspect that he needs to stop
living in a fool's paradise. But there's the rub; his idea of mutinous
autism is no political belief. It is a fierce and burning gospel of
hatred and intolerance, of murder and destruction, and the unloosing of
an irascible blood-lust. It is, in every sense, a doctrinaire and pagan
religion that incites its worshipers to an infernal frenzy and then
prompts them to precipitate riots.


Adam does not merely undermine the current world order. He does so
consciously, deliberately, willfully, and methodically. His undertakings
were never about tolerance and equality. That was just window dressing
for the "innocents". Rather, someone has been giving Adam's brain a very
thorough washing, and now Adam is trying to do the same to us. Several
things he has said have brought me to the boiling point. The statement
of his that made the strongest impression on me, however, was something
to the effect of how he is a refined gentleman with the soundest
education and morals you can imagine. Forgive me for boring you with all
the gory details, but Adam's hypocrisy is transparent. Even the least
discerning among us can see right through it.


It's easy to tell if Adam's lying. If his lips are moving, he's lying.
Although Adam demonstrates a great deal of ignorance and presumption
when he says that he commands an army of robots that live in the hollow
center of the earth and produce earthquakes whenever they feel like
shaking things up a bit on the surface, the fact remains that in order
to convince us that he has the authority to issue licenses for
practicing heathenism, Adam often turns to the old propagandist trick of
comparing results brought about by entirely dissimilar causes. Now that
you've read the bulk of this letter, it should not come as a complete
surprise that there can be no argument that when I first realized that
Mr. Adam Albright is a proponent of "paternalism" -- a term Adam uses
catachrestically in place of "Pyrrhonism" -- a cold shudder ran down my
back. However, this fact bears repeating again and again, until the
words crack through the hardened exteriors of those who would violate
the basic tenets of journalism and scholarship. I am referring, of
course, to the likes of Adam Albright."

Want to read more about this failed drunken accountant and big mouth
lying pig?
For your reading pleasure!

http://groups.google.com/groups/profile?hl=en&enc_user=tYag3woAAABrYFiZuwWGCKzw8oMmJKS7

Enjoy!
I know I did!...LOL!
Frank
 
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Adam Albright

Ringmaster said:
Some like to try to paint me Ringmaster Albright as a Microsoft basher. No, I know how
things are suppose to work, and the fanboy crowd can't bare to hear
how often Microsoft screws things up.

The blues

Black snake is in my room.
I woke up this morning
Black snake moved in on me.
 
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zachd [MSFT]

Ringmaster said:
Yes, Media Player is that bad. The problem with Media Player is even
if you have a suitable CODEC on your system that can play the file, it
often doesn't.

Such as? Any good VFW/DShow/MF codec should work fine. I can think of
three bad codecs that won't work, but I'm curious as to the specifics of
what you're alluding to. If there's an actual problem (as opposed to codec
design issues), I'd be curious to hear it.
If it does open the file it can start to play it then
five minutes into the vid, it might say it can't play it... and it
needs to shutdown. Then you might get Com Surrgate errors

What are the fault details on those two crashes? Those would likely pretty
clearly be errors in bad third party codecs. This is a problem for any
application that lets you load other filter or plug-ins, but the source of
the problem would lie outside the player. Please post up the fault
details--
http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html#bucket
and I'll look into it.

Most of those are pretty straight-forward to resolve - the primary cause is
usually broken codec packages that are years out of date and still
distributing garbage versions of old old codecs. Especially given that COM
Surrogate errors are pretty explicitly not Windows Media related: COM
Surrogate exists to host codecs so that they crash themselves and not your
system.
, or only the
video portion plays, no audio, or the audio is OK, but you get garbled
video or you have it set to repeat and the second time around the
video is nothing but a series of horizontal lines or the picture
becomes a negative or plays upside down.

A: What 'no audio' problems do you have? AC3 audio or what?
The most likely cause of 'no audio' was fixed in SP1. If there's something
else, that's interesting.
B: Garbled video is weird - how do you end up having this problem? The
player has a general rendering system: I'd be curious as to how you manage
to get garbled video out of it, if it's unique to that codec or whatnot - if
it's something you can reproduce on another system, that potentially
provides data to help identify whatever issue you're referring to.
Some like to try to paint me as a Microsoft basher. No, I know how
things are suppose to work, and the fanboy crowd can't bare to hear
how often Microsoft screws things up.

There's problems in most any software: the question and difficulty is in
precisely identifying them. When people supply adequate information, it's
usually possible to fix up Microsoft problems or even problems in other
software (through passing word along). But the above generic comments
really don't translate to any specifics and thus are pretty sadly useless.

I like helping you. You may like Microsoft, you may hate Microsoft: it's
all fairly irrelevant to me: I just enjoy helping improve software. =)

-Z
 
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zachd [MSFT]

Does it work correctly on a different Vista computer? I'm curious if this
is something unique about the file or something about the system.

Do other MPEG files play back correctly on her system?
 

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