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Windows Forum / Windows Media / Player / February 2008WMP 9 won't play .avi files
Everytime I try to play an .avi file (movie), WMP 9 gives me the criptic error message "Windows Media Player has encountered an unknown error". So far I haven't had any luck figuring this out, the help files show nothing that I can see. Can someone give me some ideas or suggestions for this problem. Thankx, John Forgot to mention that I'm using Windows 2000. The .avi file I'm currently trying to play will play ok in VLC, but I can't get it, or any other .avi file, to play in Windows Media Player 9.00.00.2980. John > Everytime I try to play an .avi file (movie), WMP 9 gives me the criptic error message "Windows Media Player has > encountered an unknown error". So far I haven't had any luck figuring this out, the help files show nothing that I can [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > John >Everytime I try to play an .avi file (movie), WMP 9 gives me the criptic error message "Windows Media Player has >encountered an unknown error". So far I haven't had any luck figuring this out, the help files show nothing that I can >see. > >Can someone give me some ideas or suggestions for this problem. Run GSpot http://www.headbands.com/gspot/ on the AVI file, and see if it can diagnose which audio and video codecs are required for playback You're probably just missing a decoder - if installing the required decoder (often DivX : http://www.divx.com/divx/windows/codec/) I'd check that your graphics card and sound card driver software is up to date and nto causing playback errors. HTH Cheers - Neil ------------------------------------------------ Digital Media MVP : 2004-2008 http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/mvpfaqs Thanks for the suggestions...this was a ray of sunshine into my lack of knowledge about these things. GSpot was just what I needed. I've got the .avi file working in WMP9, sound and video. Only the subtitles are missing(it's an italian film). Do you have any suggestions about figuring out that problem. John > >Everytime I try to play an .avi file (movie), WMP 9 gives me the criptic error message "Windows Media Player has > >encountered an unknown error". So far I haven't had any luck figuring this out, the help files show nothing that I can [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > Digital Media MVP : 2004-2008 > http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/mvpfaqs Yes - quite often subtitles end up in VobSub format, which means that http://www.free-codecs.com/download/DirectVobSub.htm should fix that up. There are other subtitle formats though which that won't play - do you know the file extension of the subtitle files ? If they're text files it would be often one of .sub, .sami or .srt HTH Cheers - Neil >Thanks for the suggestions...this was a ray of sunshine into my lack of knowledge about these things. GSpot was just >what I needed. I've got the .avi file working in WMP9, sound and video. Only the subtitles are missing(it's an italian [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] >> Digital Media MVP : 2004-2008 >> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/mvpfaqs ------------------------------------------------ Digital Media MVP : 2004-2008 http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/mvpfaqs The subtitles file was a .srt...DirectVobSub took care of that problem also, at least with WMP. Still don't have subtitles showing with VLC but that's another story. John > Yes - quite often subtitles end up in VobSub format, which means that > http://www.free-codecs.com/download/DirectVobSub.htm should fix that [quoted text clipped - 38 lines] > Digital Media MVP : 2004-2008 > http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/mvpfaqs VLC should have pretty much native subtitle support, there's a "lot in the box" there : See the Subtitles support section under 'Video' on this page for details http://www.videolan.org/vlc/features.html 'Text files (MicroDVD, SubRIP, SubViewer, SSA1-5, SAMI, VPlayer), Vobsub' (and friends) HTH Cheers - Neil >The subtitles file was a .srt...DirectVobSub took care of that problem also, at least with WMP. Still don't have >subtitles showing with VLC but that's another story. [quoted text clipped - 48 lines] >> Digital Media MVP : 2004-2008 >> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/mvpfaqs ------------------------------------------------ Digital Media MVP : 2004-2008 http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/mvpfaqs |
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