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Problem playing videos.
Posted: Thu 04 Nov, 2004 21.33
by Adders
About 30% of videos I've downloaded from t'internet don't play - I get one of those annoying This programme has performed an illegal operation blah blah blah. Please could somebody help. Cheers, Adam
PS THey are usually AVI or WMV videos
Posted: Fri 24 Dec, 2004 19.21
by Orry Verducci
Sounds like your software is causing the problem.
Posted: Fri 24 Dec, 2004 19.59
by russnet
This happened at alot on my old system. It was touch and go on what .wmv files it would play. So I thought I would download the latest Windows Media Player for my old Win 98 machine. After spending an hour downloading 14mb on dialup only to find that the minimum spec was a Win 98 SE o/s, me was peeved off!
So I went for the next best thing... Windows Media Player 6.0 to 6.1 Whoooo! Trouble is, no joy, so I tried other .wmv files and they all crashed. Although it's not a problem now with my new machine, there's sommat in the encoding that makes it not too happy with older machines.
Posted: Fri 24 Dec, 2004 20.16
by stu
Are you using the latest WMV and divx/avi codecs?