"Windows Media Player cannot play the file. The Player might not support the
file type or might not support the codec that was used to compress the
file."



"Tony A." <tony72NNOOSSPPAAMM******.com> wrote in message
news:O6BXD8IGHHA.3616@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> Weird. If I get a chance, I'll boot up an XP machine later and take a
> look. What's the exact error message you're getting from WMP when you
> try and play the file anyway?
>
>

Hmm, well I don't know what to tell you. I booted up an XP box this
morning, updated to the latest WMP11 (it had WMP10 on initially),
installed ffdshow (the 2006-12-3 version from free-codecs.com) with
default settings, and WMP11 plays your sample fine.

http://tony72.googlepages.com/wmp11_mp4.jpg

I can only guess that something has gone screwy with the codecs on
your system, preventing ffdshow from working properly. Unfortunately I
have no idea how to go about debugging that, but at least you now know
that it *should* work, FWIW.

Chris McFarling wrote:
> "Windows Media Player cannot play the file. The Player might not
> support the file type or might not support the codec that was used
to
> compress the file."
>
>
>
> "Tony A." <tony72NNOOSSPPAAMM******.com> wrote in message
> news:O6BXD8IGHHA.3616@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>> Weird. If I get a chance, I'll boot up an XP machine later and take
a
>> look. What's the exact error message you're getting from WMP when
you
>> try and play the file anyway?

Well, that figures. Thanks for playing around with it though.

I downloaded the same exact ffdshow installer and tried again but no luck. I
was able to find a util called MP4Cam2AVI that will convert the mp4 files to
avi. That may be a better solution anyway since I'd like to be able to send
these files to other PC users and know that they'll be able to open them


"Tony A." <tony72NNOOSSPPAAMM******.com> wrote in message
news:uNd%23k2SGHHA.2128@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> Hmm, well I don't know what to tell you. I booted up an XP box this
> morning, updated to the latest WMP11 (it had WMP10 on initially),
> installed ffdshow (the 2006-12-3 version from free-codecs.com) with
> default settings, and WMP11 plays your sample fine.
>
> http://tony72.googlepages.com/wmp11_mp4.jpg
>
> I can only guess that something has gone screwy with the codecs on
> your system, preventing ffdshow from working properly. Unfortunately I
> have no idea how to go about debugging that, but at least you now know
> that it *should* work, FWIW.
>
> Chris McFarling wrote:
>> "Windows Media Player cannot play the file. The Player might not
>> support the file type or might not support the codec that was used
> to
>> compress the file."
>>
>>
>>
>> "Tony A." <tony72NNOOSSPPAAMM******.com> wrote in message
>> news:O6BXD8IGHHA.3616@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>>> Weird. If I get a chance, I'll boot up an XP machine later and take
> a
>>> look. What's the exact error message you're getting from WMP when
> you
>>> try and play the file anyway?
>
>