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MPEGs: Suddenly all unplayable

Mar 18, 2006 10:46PM PST

Greetings.

I recently cleaned up my system (PC, Windows XP) and probably since that time the storage size of my MPG files on the harddrive is unaltered but their "original size" (on mouseover, by DBpowerAmp) is suddenly 0 Bytes. And worser, they don't play anymore (with any player).

Was it maybe the deletion of some (of too many) TEMP folders which maybe influences some codec?

Who can help me?

Thanks for time, intention and help,

Sven

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You are probably missing the mpg codec. I'm sure Windows
Mar 19, 2006 5:23AM PST

doesn't include it. It usually is supplied by third party software. You need to figure out what originally supplied yours.

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Looks bad. Here's why.
Mar 19, 2006 5:29AM PST

Since all players would include VLCPLAYER and since VLCPLAYER doesn't require codes, then your next course of action is to restore those files from your backup.

Bob