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Re: [LUG] Windows FAIL

 

On 26/09/11 19:16, Rob Beard wrote:
> On 26/09/11 18:19, paul sutton wrote:
>> HI
>>
>> having just copied a few episodes of "star trek new voyages" to a dvd, I
>> tried to have a go at playing back the video (avi)  windows media player
>> opens and decides by some weird logic to play it as an audio file
>> complete with the effects, giving up i switched over to Linux and played
>> the file on the portable hdd, through movie player and it works.
>>
>> Upon loading in to media player on Windows it seemed to suggest it was
>> going to download the required files to play it, lol
>>
>> anyway season 4 episodes 1,2, and 4 - 6 (i am working on ep 3) are now
>> on dvd. :)
>>
>> Why is it windows does stupid things.
>>
>> Paul
>>
>
> It's not doing stupid things, it just didn't have the codecs
> installed.  Was it Windows XP by any chance?

yeah,  just using it to play games.
>
> I'm guessing that you're maybe running Linux Mint (which has non-free
> codecs pre-installed) or Ubuntu and you're running it through mplayer
> or you've either installed the gstreamer codecs or w32codecs from
> Medibuntu?

Ubuntu
>
> IIRC Windows XP will play WAV audio, MP3 audio, MPEG 1 video and
> WMV/WMA format files out of the box, and if you install a newer
> version of Media Player it'll also play MPEG2 video and DVD video, but
> if you want XVID/DIVX/MP4 format video, or OGG, FLAC etc audio then
> you have to install a codec.  Personally I'd recommend the Combined
> Community Codec Pack.

Just avi file.
>
> IIRC XVID and DIVX codecs came out after Windows XP (thinking back,
> I'm sure the early versions of DIVX were hacks of the Windows Media
> codecs) and in the early days if you wanted to play DVDs you needed a
> DVD player application (or hardware decoder).
>
> You'll find Vista and Windows 7 have better support out of the box.
Well they are newer,  Windows and office are for people who have too
much money and can afford it.
>
> Oh, and try playing the videos on a freshly installed Debian or Fedora
> system, I'm sure you'll find similar issues...
>
> http://tinyurl.com/6hj7qj9
> http://wiki.debian.org/MultimediaCodecs
>
> Don't get me wrong, I'm not standing up for Windows, but I'd hardly
> call it a Windows fail.

Ok
>
> Rob
>


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