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Old June 11th 05, 10:42 AM
Daniel
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I am trying to play a *.wmv file in Windows Media Player 7.1 for Windows 98.
Every time I open it up in media player, I can hear the sound but see the
movie. Also, a window pops up with its title 'Active Movie Window', which is
also plain black. I've looked for new codecs etc. online but there isn't
much for W98. I downloaded this update thing for WMP7.1, but it didn't
install properly (I think it needed higher than W98). Can anyone help?

Thanks
Daniel
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Old June 12th 05, 01:51 PM
Jure Sah
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Daniel wrote:
I am trying to play a *.wmv file in Windows Media Player 7.1 for Windows 98.
Every time I open it up in media player, I can hear the sound but see the
movie. Also, a window pops up with its title 'Active Movie Window', which is
also plain black. I've looked for new codecs etc. online but there isn't
much for W98. I downloaded this update thing for WMP7.1, but it didn't
install properly (I think it needed higher than W98). Can anyone help?


There are no codecs for Windows 98... in fact there are no codecs for
Windows XP... There are just codecs.

And this is a well known nightmare. Sometimes it will depend on what you
are trying to playback. Some movies are plain broken. Some versions of
..wmv format will only play on specific versions of Windows Media Player
(for example I have a bunch that don't play video in the latest WMP
version, but work fine in version 7). You have various packs of codecs
that can be found on the internet ("Nimo codec pack" for example), find
one that works for you and if you can't, find a diffirent movie, sorry.

I am running Windows 98SE here with Windows Media Player 9 (you might
want to try installing 9 too, look under system requirements) and
Kazaa's codec pack (I deleted kazaa but kept the codec pack) and most
movies work fine here, even tho when we tried to install the same on a
diffirent PC, it behaved radically diffirent there, so it obviously
depends on the hardware too.

Good luck with it heh.

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Old June 29th 05, 07:38 PM
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"" wrote:
I am trying to play a *.wmv file in Windows Media Player 7.1
for Windows 98.
Every time I open it up in media player, I can hear the sound
but see the
movie. Also, a window pops up with its title 'Active Movie
Window', which is
also plain black. I've looked for new codecs etc. online but
there isn't
much for W98. I downloaded this update thing for WMP7.1, but
it didn't
install properly (I think it needed higher than W98). Can
anyone help?

Thanks
Daniel


thanks you very much

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