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o Why is MediaPlayer complaining it cannot play the .avi?
Most of the time this means you need to get a video codec, usually DivX or Xvid Could be: - the original DivX3 (3.11 or 3.20): http://www.divx-digest.com/software/divxcodec.html. - DivX5: http://www.divx.com. DivX5 can play DivX3 files. - one of the various Xvid builds: http://www.divx-digest.com/software/xvid.html or hunt for that specific build variant. - An MPEG-4 variant: use the all-purpose ffdshow if you don't want to look for the specific codec. o I have audio but no video.
o I have video but no audio.
o I want an universal codec that plays everything.
o Why is the .avi still not playing? I have installed
all the codecs.
o MediaPlayer is losing frames when playing this DivX movie
I just got.
o MediaPlayer can't play this .mpg file I just got.
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o RealPlayer complains there are syntax errors when I click on the
.smi subtitle file.
- .smi (=sami) scripts are for use with Windows Media Player. (SAMI = Synchronized Accessible Media Interchange) - .smi/.smil files, always seen with .rt files (RealText), are for use with RealPlayer. (SMIL = Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language) o How do I use those .smi scripts?
o "Captions" is greyed out in MediaPlayer.
o How can I watch .smi scripts full screen?
o Which captioning/subtitling/subbing editor program do you recommend? I'm far from an expert on this, but you may want to check: - Sub Station Alpha: looks very professional but I can't get it to work with my video card - I only get a black screen. - MakeSami: simple and simple to use. - SubSync: I haven't tried this one. - Magpie: does the job, but not very easy to use (IMO.) See below for the links and more programs. |
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o How to use MP 6.4 with MP 7 installed:
MediaPlayer 6.4 is still there, just hidden. "If you've upgraded to v7.0 from v6.4: go to \Program Files\Windows Media Player\ and you should see both mplayer2.exe (v6.4) and wmplayer.exe (v7.0). Run mplayer2.exe, go into the options, and re-associate all your favorite file types with v6.4 again. This way you get all the codec benefits of 7.0, yet you keep the nice 6.4 interface." [tip from Liyang] Note that other older MS players could also still be there: - mplayer.exe = v.4 - "Rundll32.exe AMovie.ocx,RunDll" = ActiveMovie v.2 o How to play a broken/incomplete DivX file?
o What other program can view .rm movies?
o How do I post a movie to Usenet (Windows)?
o What is a PAR file?
o What is a PAR2 file?
o How to enable a disabled codec?
o How to repair a broken RAR?
o How can I open OGM files?
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o VirtualDub, for capturing/converting/hard-subbing/etc. video files http://www.virtualdub.org
o Nandub, a specialized VirtualDub modification for
DivX: http://www.nandub.org
I use NanDub One Pass from http://www.undercut.org
o Shadowrunner's Multi-script Converter: Can input sami/ssa, and output rt, can also be used for time offset. Multicon130.zip
o sub2mp: a js/ssa to sami converter: http://www.crosswinds.net/~mikebliv
o Sconv can convert many scripts formats, the source code is
available, and it can also be used for time offset: http://baka.k2r.net/sconv
For a Sconv version that can output SAMIs:
http://lamipcserv1.epfl.ch/kikori/japanim/fansubs.html
(That's the one I use.)
o Converts .ssa to .srt online: http://www.akira.ru/osc/ssa2srt.php
o SubSync, captioning program: http://users.pandora.be/vlad/subsync
Included in the package is a player, DVlaD, to view a media
file and its sami full screen.
o AviText, for viewing sami captions full screen. avitext26.zip (61k)
o Sub Station Alpha, captioning program: http://www.eswat.demon.co.uk/substation.html
o Magpie, captioning program:
http://main.wgbh.org/wgbh/pages/ncam/webaccess/magpie
Others:
XombieSub
Medusa
Subtitle Workshop
o Ligos LSX-MPEG Player Demo: can play mpeg-2 files, http://www.ligos.com
o Sami docs, etc.: http://directory.google.com/Top/Arts/Television/Closed_Captioning
o Smil docs: http://www.w3.org/AudioVideo
o ABMA FAQ: http://member.newsguy.com/~moomoo/abmafaq.txt
(alt.binaries.multimedia.anime)
o ABA FAQ: http://www.oocities.org/alt_binaries_anime
o ABA/ABMA FAQ: http://mtrs.org/aba
o How to know what was posted in ABA/ABMA and more? http://www.animeusenet.org
o Where can I find more divx and subbing software?
http://www.ddigest.com/divx/software/index.html
http://www.divx-digest.com/software/index.html#subtitles
http://www.digital-digest.com/dvd/downloads/encoding.html#sub
o Encoding/decoding tips, AC3 audio codec:
http://www.undercut.org
http://www.doom9.org
You can also use a search engine: http://www.google.com