Video Codec

[dejo]

Hello all,


I recently purchased a movie cd (not a dvd, and not divx) and tried to play it on my PC. I have been having problems though as when I open it with my media player it says I am missing a codec and it doesn;t say which codec I need. If anyone has a movie CD or bought one and had to download a codec I could use a little input. Please, anyone who knows, let me know what the codec is I need to play these types of discs.


Thanks in advance,
dejo

 

[chibchakan]

Is this a VCD ? If it is go here.. Hope that helped

 

[cdan]

What version of media player are you using? I've gotten VCDs to work with Windows Media Player ver 6.0 and up. You may need to upgrade.

 

[dejo]

I have the version of media player that comes with XP and upgraded with the updates on Microsoft's page.

Whenever I open the VCD it says that is connecting to a server and requesting a codec but there is always an erro in downloading it so it never works. Any thoughts???

 

[dejo]

bump....anyone know?

 

[Hubris]

It's most likely one of those shady pseudo-illegal codecs that aren't supported by MS. You'll have to do some digging to find them, though they are out there.

 

[yakko]

If it is really a VCD you just need to make WMP play the .dat file.

 

[yobarman]

i have a little program with pretty much all the recent codes on it....it's 5 megs, you want me to send it to you?