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Avi files: Win98 Vs WinXP

by mulgarvie Jul 4, 2007 4:03AM PDT

Hi

I'd like to ask my first question to the Cnet forum community. Most of all I ask is your patience in helping me understand what is way over my head. I will try to formulate my question with as much sense as possible Happy System specs come listed at the bottom after my question.

Here goes: I temporarily installed a Pioneer DVD-RW on my Win98 system to burn some home movie files that I had ripped with a program called Freez DVD Ripper. I chose the Avi (MPEG4) option. The process was successful. I opended up Windows Media Player V 9.0, and the files played perfectly.

Later when I brought the burnt files over to my brother to play on his Win XP system, nothing registered. Windows Media Player could not recognise the format. And Windows Movie Maker V2.0 kept closing out after 'Encountering a problem'. My brother had recently installed the 2.08 XP Codec pack over the 2.07 codec pack, plus the AVI Codec Pack.

Am I dealing with some Codec compatibility issues between 98 and XP? What could be wrong. Thank you for your time and support. Happy

My Computer info, as best as I understand Belarc Advisor goes like this:

Windows 98 SE (build 4.10.2222)

1.50 gigahertz AMD Sempron
128 kilobyte primary memory cache
256 kilobyte secondary memory cache

ST340014A [Hard drive] 40.02 GB

LITE-ON CD-ROM LTN-527T
SONY CD-RW CRX320E [CD-ROM drive]

Smart Link 56K Voice Modem

Standard Floppy Disk Controller
Primary IDE controller (dual fifo)
Secondary IDE controller (dual fifo)
VIA Bus Master PCI IDE Controller

Board: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. 7VM400M-RZ
Bus Clock: 167 megahertz
BIOS: Award Software International, Inc. F4 08/16/2004

224 Megabytes Installed Memory

Slot 'A0' is Empty
Slot 'A1' has 256 MB

Smart Link 56K Voice Modem

Defender Pro Anti-Virus

VIA/S3G UniChrome Graphics [Display adapter]
Default Monitor

Gameport Joystick (no joystick connected)
Vinyl AC'97 Codec Combo Driver (WDM)
Wave Device for Voice Modem

Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural Keyboard
HID-compliant mouse
Microsoft USB Optical Mouse (IntelliPoint)
Generic USB Hub
USB 2.0 Root Hub
USB Root Hub (3x)

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Most likely the CODEC package is missing. See link.
by r. proffitt Former Forum moderator Jul 4, 2007 4:12AM PDT
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GSpot2.7
by mulgarvie Jul 4, 2007 5:02AM PDT

Thank you Moderator for your reply. I followd your suggestion and installed GSpot. Unfortunately I feel it is too technically challenging to me at the moment. I would like to know where I could get a basic tutorial on this program to understand what it reports. For example. How do I decipher the following:

Failed to connect Output Pin 0x0f5f6ee44("Video 0") on Avi Splitter to Input Pin 0x06504ef4 ("In") on filter 0x01f6cd13 ("ffdshow VFW decoder helper") Connect direct failed. Error: 0x80040207 (unknown)?

It was encouraging to be able to view the separate video and audio streaming in the GSpot GUI. Something in there is working huh?

Thank you again for your help sir Happy

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All that means is...
by r. proffitt Former Forum moderator Jul 4, 2007 5:05AM PDT

Some codec or directx is missing.

Try this player -> VLC PLAYER from http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

It doesn't require any codec hunts or you learning about such. Sorry but I decline to write about codecs since it wouldn't fit in this small box. Instead you can turn to the wikipedia to begin your study.

Bob

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Joy, but no joy
by mulgarvie Jul 6, 2007 4:13PM PDT

Hello
Thank you Bob for your pointers. I was away for the last two days and finally got around to doing some research on a codec solution. I stumbled upon a codec pack that did the trick (almost) K-Lite.

I can now import my files into WMV. But I'm somehow missing the 'Split' feature. It's all grayed out! Any ideas?

Thanks again Happy

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To split...
by r. proffitt Former Forum moderator Jul 6, 2007 9:54PM PDT

First convert them to AVI and for me that enables splitting and move.

Bob

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