"kwanjai" <kwanjai@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:6DA03E1B-419C-4A68-8F0E-E987F48CB79E@microsoft.com...
> 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???
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.