AUDIO/VIDEO PROBLEM

[Lazarus96]

I have downloaded some videos that were originally 10 to 12 minutes in duration, they played fine up until a few days ago, now when I play them on Windows Media Player or open them in Roxio Media Creator 8 they only show about 1 1/2 minutes of duration when they were originally about 10 to 12 minutes. When I check the properties it shows the whole file still exists. Any help with this would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Lazarus

 

[bfamo]

What kind of movies is it?(avi? mpeg?).
Whenever I can't seem to play a movie file, I turn to the ultimate video player: VLC (

http://www.videolan.org/)

This is a really good freeware. Check it out, and if it doesn't work, try reinstalling your codecs. There is alot of free codec packs out there.

 

[linney]

Wherever you downloaded them from was there any warning that this may happen or may be by design?

This thread may offer you a few clues about the standard codec pack downloadable from Microsoft and some others if that one fails to work.

Problem Installing Software?
thread779-1158960

This one also covers that ground but talks about DirectX too.

Reset ALL codecs ...how ?
thread779-1151022

Accidentally deleted original WinXPpro audio codecs
thread779-852144

You can see if these tools are of any use?

Windows XP Video Decoder Checkup Utility

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...AC-0AB6-4990-943D-627E6ADE9FCB&displaylang=en

Sherlock-codec-detective

http://www.updatexp.com/sherlock-codec-detective.html

822430 - Windows Stops Responding When You Click a Large AVI File in Windows Explorer

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;822430&FR=1&PA=1&SD=HSCH

You may want to take a look at this link:

http://www.snapfiles.com/reviews/DivFix/divfix.html