Recent content by Sierras

Is it normal for WMP 12 to stop responding if a video or audio codec is missing? Shouldn't it just give me a message that the video can not be played for what ever reason...

Well I downloaded and installed ffdshow, but I still can't play the video in WMP 12. It plays fine in Windows Media center though. Unless I did not configure the ffdshow properly? I left the defaults the way they were and tried the file. Then tried to enable a couple of codecs like MPG-2, but...

The extension is .mpg I can view them on another networked PC running Windows XP and Media Player 11 with no problem. VLC has no problem playing them either. I also checked the codecs used with Gspot from the Win XP machine and it showed that the videos are MPEG-2 and audio AC3 48000Hz...

I have a problem when trying to play some home movie videos that I had captured from a stand alone Panasonic DVD recorder and ripped to my computer hard drive. (I don't remember what software I used to rip the DVDs. It was a long time ago.) The videos play fine when previewed in Windows...