Thanks Julian, I have already downloaded videolan & realplayer to see if that
works but it still does not..the most important video file I need to play is
in AVI ( Im guessing thats what you mean when you ask what file type? ) I
also have alot of important video files in VLC & even though I have installed
videolan it still only plays the audio & no visual.. any ideas??
"Julian" wrote:
> "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.
>