Re: WMP 9 won't play .avi files

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The subtitles file was a .srt...DirectVobSub took care of that problem also, at least with WMP. Still don't have
subtitles showing with VLC but that's another story.

John


"Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" <neil@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:q766s35fhgv7jrept3ocdj8ugti7fihuob@xxxxxxxxxx
Yes - quite often subtitles end up in VobSub format, which means that
http://www.free-codecs.com/download/DirectVobSub.htm should fix that
up.

There are other subtitle formats though which that won't play - do you
know the file extension of the subtitle files ?

If they're text files it would be often one of .sub, .sami or .srt

HTH
Cheers - Neil

On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 03:51:06 -0800, "jbclem" <jbclem1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Thanks for the suggestions...this was a ray of sunshine into my lack of knowledge about these things. GSpot was just
what I needed. I've got the .avi file working in WMP9, sound and video. Only the subtitles are missing(it's an
italian
film). Do you have any suggestions about figuring out that problem.

John




"Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" <neil@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 02:02:17 -0800, "jbclem" <jbclem1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Everytime I try to play an .avi file (movie), WMP 9 gives me the criptic error message "Windows Media Player has
encountered an unknown error". So far I haven't had any luck figuring this out, the help files show nothing that
I
can
see.

Can someone give me some ideas or suggestions for this problem.

Run GSpot http://www.headbands.com/gspot/ on the AVI file, and see if
it can diagnose which audio and video codecs are required for playback

You're probably just missing a decoder - if installing the required
decoder (often DivX : http://www.divx.com/divx/windows/codec/) I'd
check that your graphics card and sound card driver software is up to
date and nto causing playback errors.

HTH
Cheers - Neil
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