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Karen Chuplis - 14 Sep 2003 23:29 GMT

I'm having trouble playing some video files on Real Player and Windows
Media. I have the most updated ones. RP plugin just won't load and WMP says
compressed with a codec that is not supported, but it is supposed to be able
to. Mac OS X which I know you have too. Any ideas for help?

Thx.

Karen

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John Biltz - 15 Sep 2003 00:29 GMT

> I'm having trouble playing some video files on Real Player and Windows
> Media. I have the most updated ones. RP plugin just won't load and WMP says
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>
> Karen

I suggest something called VLC its open source and multiplatform, written
by French school kids. Its about all I use.
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

If you knew the codec you could try downloading it.

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Karen Chuplis - 15 Sep 2003 02:44 GMT

>> I'm having trouble playing some video files on Real Player and Windows
>> Media. I have the most updated ones. RP plugin just won't load and WMP says
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>
> If you knew the codec you could try downloading it.

thanks John. That will be handy for some things. Unfortunately the site I am
trying to see clips on has a "launch cast" to get through first, and I can't
find a way to extract the actual video files to play. Very frustrating. But
that player will be very handy when I am able to download files. Media
players drive me nuts.

Karen

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John Biltz - 15 Sep 2003 04:18 GMT

>>> I'm having trouble playing some video files on Real Player and Windows
>>> Media. I have the most updated ones. RP plugin just won't load and WMP
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> Karen

I have that problem with a lot of sites also. Generally with me it is
the plug in. I seem to have a lot of problems with that since going Mac.
I was hoping that latest Java update this week would have helped but it
doesn't seem to.

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Karen Chuplis - 15 Sep 2003 05:49 GMT

>>>> I'm having trouble playing some video files on Real Player and Windows
>>>> Media. I have the most updated ones. RP plugin just won't load and WMP
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> I was hoping that latest Java update this week would have helped but it
> doesn't seem to.

It does seem to be plug in specific with RP, but it is definitely a
compression codec problem with WMP as I've had it do that with downloaded
wma files before too.

Karen

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rrb_041303 - 15 Sep 2003 02:58 GMT

Karen Chuplis said:

> I'm having trouble playing some video files on Real Player and Windows
> Media. I have the most updated ones. RP plugin just won't load and WMP says
[quoted text clipped - 4 lines]
>
> Karen

I presume you have the latest versions of both Real Player, and WMP? If
not I would update them. Also you can try checking for updates in RP
maybe they posted a fix. Can you provide a link to a page with the
problem if their is one?

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