Well, the time sensitivity (I like this politically correct way
is limited
to MPEG-2/Dolby Digital codecs only (the codecs that are used in DVD/Live TV
playback, DVD burn). WMA/WMV codecs don't have such a limitation.
Naveen Thumpudi [MS]
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"HagarTheHorrible" wrote:
> Thanks... not necessairly what I wanted to hear, but that's life. This might
> hasten my return to XP. DRAT!
>
> "Jeff" wrote:
>
> > 5600 huh?
> > The codecs for video in beta builds were temp codecs-time sensitive;
> > expired just a couple of days ago; I think.-an MSFT guy posted about it in
> > other threads.
> > That's prolly why.
> >
> > Jeff
> >
> > "HagarTheHorrible" <HagarTheHorrible@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> > message news:7A1F8670-FE7D-43AF-B8B2-404F62988EB3@microsoft.com...
> > > OK.... let itr be known. I am not a big Real Player fan, but sometimes you
> > > have to use this necessary evil. My Media Player in Vista 5600 (1 gig ram,
> > > 256 meg Nvidia 6200 with Athlon XP2500) worked fine until about three
> > > weeks
> > > ago. Then it would only play the opening few seconds of a WMV file and
> > > then
> > > freeze, The audio would keep running, but video did not.
> > >
> > > Today I installed the latest build of Real Player, and it worked where
> > > Media
> > > Player would not. Any suggested fixes?
> >
> >