Interestingly, I have DVDs of some of these files and they play fine as DVDs
but not the file. Must be another codec that I need for the files.
"Andy [Ex-MSFT]" wrote:
> "Vijay2U" <Vijay2U@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:1292B58B-3328-45F1-A3F6-DE0559961AD7@microsoft.com...
> >I have many MPEG files downloaded from my DVR that I cannot play on my new
> > Vista PC with Media Player 11. I can play the same files on WMP11 on an
> > XP
> > machine I also have. Does anyone know where I can find the right MPEG
> > codecs
> > for WMP11 that are Vista compatible? I saw somewhere that I should avoid
> > coded packs as they cause system crashes.
>
> Most DVD players like PowerDVD install the DVD/MPEG2 codec to your system.
> If you can't playback DVDs then consider finding a decent Windows DVD
> player. You can also try running it through VideoLAN,
> http://www.videolan.org VLC runs it's own open source codecs independant
> from Windows. Might work for you.
>