Codec Error:Use windows media player?
Codec Error:Use windows media player?
I m downloading trasformer 2 from limewire ,so when i tried to play that file a message come on player screen ,"Codec Error:use windows media player" and i m playing that file on mplayer and vlcr ,after that errror cames "Abording video ,Redirecting to microsoft codec download page " video stops after 19 sec .after that codec download movie is still not playing . Now tell me wht to do.....?
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Re: Codec Error:Use windows media player?
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Yesterday i have deleted this from my Laptop.faruqkhan wrote:I m downloading trasformer 2 from limewire ,so when i tried to play that file a message come on player screen ,"Codec Error:use windows media player" and i m playing that file on mplayer and vlcr ,after that errror cames "Abording video ,Redirecting to microsoft codec download page " video stops after 19 sec .after that codec download movie is still not playing . Now tell me wht to do.....?
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Re: Codec Error:Use windows media player?
Start promoting the use of free and open file formats.faruqkhan wrote:Now tell me wht to do.....?
file format != codec.
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not unambiguously, no.
tell me, which of the following are free and open file formats: avi, mov, ogg.
tell me, which of the following are free and open file formats: avi, mov, ogg.
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It seems like you want to tell me something I do not know. If this is the case then please tell me clearly.lambda wrote:tell me, which of the following are free and open file formats: avi, mov, ogg.
However, if you only want me to choose one of the options then I choose OGG on the basis of what I have learnt so far (which may or may not be sufficient for this topic).
just looking at the filename doesn't tell you anything about whether you can play the video/audio or not. an avi might contain an mp3 audio stream, and if you don't have a decoder for that, you can't hear the audio. it might contain an h.263-encoded video stream, or a motion jpeg-encoded video stream. the name tells you nothing. an ogg file might contain flac-encoded audio (unusual, but it happens).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Container_format_(digital)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Container_format_(digital)
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a lot of people know this, but they confuse "file format" with codecs.
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Re: Codec Error:Use windows media player?
So any suggestion how I should have written this sentence to make it "confusion-free"?
Muhammad Saad wrote:Start promoting the use of free and open file formats.
codecs, not file formats.
and that wouldn't have helped at all, with this guy downloading a random movie off the internet. he's not the one encoding anything; he has to use whatever the encoder used.
and that wouldn't have helped at all, with this guy downloading a random movie off the internet. he's not the one encoding anything; he has to use whatever the encoder used.
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