please help me with my new vista, it wont play video files from XP

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hello all, I am new to this so please be gentle, I have bought a new laptop
with vista installed & i am so disapointed with it. The main problem I am
having at the moment is when i send video files to cd writer & burn them on
my XP sp2 desktop the discs do not play on my vista laptop : the audio is
there but no vision just the grapics..I have also noticed that when I copy a
video file in this way using vista it will not play in my dvd player but if i
copy same file in XP it will play in my dvd player.Why is this & can i get
round it..Also with vista, when listening to audio files the time it takes
wmp to start is unreal & when you skip a track or 2 it can take up to 1
minute before playing.
I wish i had kept my old XP laptop as this new laptop is more or less
useless to me.Can anybody help???
 
kwanjai said:
hello all, I am new to this so please be gentle, I have bought a new
laptop
with vista installed & i am so disapointed with it. The main problem I am
having at the moment is when i send video files to cd writer & burn them
on
my XP sp2 desktop the discs do not play on my vista laptop : the audio is
there but no vision just the grapics..I have also noticed that when I copy
a
video file in this way using vista it will not play in my dvd player but
if i
copy same file in XP it will play in my dvd player.Why is this & can i get
round it..Also with vista, when listening to audio files the time it takes
wmp to start is unreal & when you skip a track or 2 it can take up to 1
minute before playing.
I wish i had kept my old XP laptop as this new laptop is more or less
useless to me.Can anybody help???
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It sounds like you are missing some video codes on your Vista laptop.

There are several video formats, which are you using?
(Check the file type)

Next... download and install http://www.videolan.org/ and check k again to
see if you can watch the vids. If that works it is likely that you were
missing some codecs.
 
Thanks Julian, I have already downloaded videolan & realplayer to see if that
works but it still does not..the most important video file I need to play is
in AVI ( Im guessing thats what you mean when you ask what file type? ) I
also have alot of important video files in VLC & even though I have installed
videolan it still only plays the audio & no visual.. any ideas??
 
kwanjai said:
Thanks Julian, I have already downloaded videolan & realplayer to see if
that
works but it still does not..the most important video file I need to play
is
in AVI ( Im guessing thats what you mean when you ask what file type? ) I
also have alot of important video files in VLC & even though I have
installed
videolan it still only plays the audio & no visual.. any ideas??
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Try the Divx codecs and perhaps their player.
http://www.divx.com/

Personally I have found that Winamp is the most capable player
insofar as it encounters fewest unplayable (for whatever reason) files.
http://www.winamp.com/

Also look at this...

"Windows Media Player will play .avi files. If it won't it's probably
because the files were created with a codec that WMP doesn't understand.
Download Windows Media Encoder and re-encode the files and I'll bet they
play then. "
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/forpros/encoder/default.mspx

http://techrepublic.com.com/5208-6230-0.html?forumID=49&threadID=199671&messageID=2080328
 
Download Divx 6.2

I have found this version to be the best. When installing, only install the
codec's themselves. Deselect the other items.

I have found the later versions somewhat invasive, even when installing just
the codec's. Too much wanting to go out on the internet for reasons they do
not state.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
 
thank you everyone, I have managed to play them now by downloading the codecs
for Divx 6.2
 
had similar problem with VLC.
combination of new video drivers and latest VLC fixed it.
VLC 8.6b is what I use.



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hello all, I am new to this so please be gentle, I have bought a new laptop
with vista installed & i am so disapointed with it. The main problem I am
having at the moment is when i send video files to cd writer & burn them on
my XP sp2 desktop the discs do not play on my vista laptop : the audio is
there but no vision just the grapics..I have also noticed that when I copy a
video file in this way using vista it will not play in my dvd player but if i
copy same file in XP it will play in my dvd player.Why is this & can i get
round it..Also with vista, when listening to audio files the time it takes
wmp to start is unreal & when you skip a track or 2 it can take up to 1
minute before playing.
I wish i had kept my old XP laptop as this new laptop is more or less
useless to me.Can anybody help???
 
Pleased to assist.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
 
( With the minor note that DivX 6.5 or newer (they're up to 6.6) has some
very important stability updates. =) )
 
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