Movie Commands #2

BackupUser · Post by **BackupUser** » Mon Sep 23, 2002 2:18 pm

Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by Kendrel.

I dunno if iam right, but could it be that you can only play VCD and uncompressed AVI's with this lib even if you have some SVCD and DIVX codec installed??!

is there any chance i could play SVCDs and DIVX? a free dll or something... or would Fred have to update the lib? woulbe be kinda great

BackupUser · Post by **BackupUser** » Mon Sep 23, 2002 5:53 pm

Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by tranquil.

You only need the right codec installed. eg DivX. You can replay every type of movie if you have installed the right codec.

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BackupUser · Post by **BackupUser** » Mon Sep 23, 2002 6:04 pm

Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by Kendrel.

I tried it once again and DIVx works, but i cannot get an SVCD to load an play. I tried 3 different mpgs, and none of them worked.
One time it looked like the movieplayer would load the complete movie into the memory, and the two other trys the movieplayer crashed.

i have all codecs installed, and that is 100%.

maybe this is some bug, i dunno!

BackupUser · Post by **BackupUser** » Mon Sep 23, 2002 9:18 pm

Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by tranquil.

can you play the mpegs with the ms windows mediaplayer on windows 2000/98 and your installed codecs?

I had many problems playing mpeg2 files couse I did not found a correct codec for it. hm.

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BackupUser · Post by **BackupUser** » Tue Sep 24, 2002 3:09 pm

Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by Kendrel.

Hm. I play SVCDs usually with DVD Stattion (the app that came with my MPG2 decoder card), or power dvd... so the codecs should be installed.

is there some place to get csome free codecs or are they all commercial?

i wanted to write a movieplayer for my hardware card, but i would also need some codecs i can spread around...

BackupUser · Post by **BackupUser** » Tue Sep 24, 2002 3:26 pm

Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by Paul.

Like tranquil said... try to play it using Windows Media Player.
If Media Player can't play it, then there is no software decoder installed that is sharable between apps.

Are you sure the software that came with your decoder card does not have custom code specific to your card?

Good luck finding free MPEG-II CODEC. The MPEG-II people want their share of the cash so it's usually only available in commercial software (because they have to pay for the rights to use it so they charge for it)

VCD is just standard MPEG-I whos CODEC is standard in Windows, that's why you can play that. SVCD is a subset of DVD (MPEG-II) which requires the special MPEG-II CODEC.

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