Re: WMP 9 won't play .avi files

VLC should have pretty much native subtitle support, there's a "lot in
the box" there : See the Subtitles support section under 'Video' on
this page for details http://www.videolan.org/vlc/features.html

'Text files (MicroDVD, SubRIP, SubViewer, SSA1-5, SAMI, VPlayer),
Vobsub' (and friends)

HTH
Cheers - Neil

On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 02:21:48 -0800, "jbclem" <jbclem1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

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




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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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