Re: How to playback "Magic of Flight.mpg"?
- From: Frank <frank@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 15:38:17 -0400
On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 12:19:28 -0700, in 'rec.video.desktop',
in article <Re: How to playback "Magic of Flight.mpg"?>,
D <tarb@xxxxx> wrote:
On Jul 13, 11:06 pm, Frank <fr...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 09:59:00 -0500, in 'rec.video.desktop',Thaniks Frank for your suggestions!
in article <Re: How to playback "Magic of Flight.mpg"?>,
"Ken Maltby" <kmal...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Richard Crowley" <rcrow...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"D" wrote ...
Hello!
I downloaded "Magic of Flight.mpg". MS Windows XP SP2 Media Player
writes that it does not have a codec to playback the file. GSpot does
not show the codec too.
How to playback the file?
Illegal downloads don't typically have very good
customer support. In the immortal explanation of Jack Sparrow: "Pirate!"
Last time I looked, the "Magic of Flight" download was a
WMV, HD demo clip, that comes in a SFX ZIP archive,
(.exe file). It comes in 720 and 1080, versions. It is a two
minute clip.
The 720p version really shows what can be done at only
6000kbps, with the right codec and an unlimited digitizing
and encoding budget.
Luck;
Ken
If it's a Windows Media Video file, then it should have a .wmv
extension, not a .mpg extension. A .mpg extension would imply an
MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 video datastream. A quick look at the file in a hex
editor program will immediately determine whether or not it's a
Windows Media Video file. Just look for the characters WMFSDK (Windows
Media Format Software Development Kit) within the first few thousand
bytes of the file. The six characters are separated by binary zeros.
If such examination shows that it's a Windows Media Video file, then
changing the file extension from .mpg to .wmv should allow Windows
Media Player to play the file, although a codec download may be
necessary. This might be required if the file is encoded with the VC-1
codec (wvc1dmod.dll), for example. The system would need an active
Internet connection in order for the codec download and installation
to be successful.
If it's really an MPEG-1 file, it should play in Windows Media Player
because Windows includes an MPEG-1 video codec.
If it's really an MPEG-2 file, it will not play in Windows Media
Player unless a third-party MPEG-2 video codec has been installed on
the system, since Windows doesn't include an MPEG-2 video codec. And
if it really is an MPEG-2 file, the audio track could be MPEG, LPCM,
Dolby Digital (AC-3), or even DTS. Without installing third-party
codecs, Windows will support MPEG and LPCM playback, but not AC-3 or
DTS.
If it really is an MPEG-2 file, and there's a DVD drive, even if it's
just a reader and not a burner, installed in the system, then there's
a good possibility that the drive came bundled with a DVD-Video disc
player application. This application would have included the video and
audio codecs necessary for playing DVD-Video discs. These codecs are
usually DirectShow compliant, and will work in Windows Media Player as
well as the third-party DVD-Video disc player program. Also, such
programs usually have the ability to play not just DVD-Video discs but
also MPEG-2 files located on the system's hard disk drive, so that's
something that the OP could try.
The next step would be to try the free the VideoLAN VLC media player
program, which comes with its own set of codecs.
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
--
Frank, Independent Consultant, New York, NY
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VLC plays the video, but with virtical pink stripe at right of its
screen.
What, you don't like pink stripes? (Just kidding.)
The file is not mpeg 2, mpeg 1 or WMV. The .mpg is an incorrect
extention, because WinDVD is installed and MS Windows XP sp2 Media
Player does not playback the file.
How to make Roxio easy DVD creator convert the video to DVD-video,
because it writes
that there is still no codec for the video?
Best regards,
Dima
What codecs (video and audio) does VLC media player say are being
used? And does looking at the program in a hex editor give any clues?
And exactly what did GSpot report?
If you need a hex editor, you could, at least for the moment, try the
trial version of UltraEdit-32.
http://www.ultraedit.com/
I'm sure that there are lots of free hex editors out there as well,
although I'm partial to UltraEdit.
--
Frank, Independent Consultant, New York, NY
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Read Frank's thoughts on HDV at http://www.humanvalues.net/hdv/
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