neonick
May 28 2007, 08:48 PM
So I have some AVI files of some videos that I wanted but I could get them to play on VLC Media Player with Windows 2000 but they won't play when I try to watch them on Vista. All it does it show a black screen that flashes. I can hear everything, but I get no picture. Same goes for Windows Media Player. Any ideas? Maybe VLC isn't Vista compatible?
Jacee
May 28 2007, 09:38 PM
It's supposed to be compatible, but you could try Media Player Classic
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.p...ackage_id=84358
neonick
May 28 2007, 11:33 PM
I just tried it with no luck. It said something about Codecs not being recognized by MPC or something like that.
Monty007
May 29 2007, 01:07 AM
Hi neonick, I had the same problem, download this file and all fixed
http://www.codecs.com/download/AC3_Filter.htm
DJBPace07
May 31 2007, 09:08 PM
I too have had issues playing some files in Vista. Oddly enough, I can play the MP4 and other files encoded with DivX or XviD, but WMV files will often not play or, if I try to seek or go to another point in the video, the video will either freeze or I will get a warning telling me WMP has encountered a problem and needs to close the file. Opening these files in VLC Player solves these issues for me.