I have some videos recorded on a Verizon Wireless XV6700 (aka UT
Starcom XV6700), some in MP4 and some in AVI (mjpeg). I can't get
either of these to play on my XP machine. Windows Media Player 11
won't recognize the files when I browse to the directory. I can open
the AVI in WinAmp and it plays the audio, but the video is just black.
The MP4 file crashes WinAmp. If I try renaming the files .mpeg, WMP 11
behaves similarly, plays audio from the MJPEG with no video, and
displays an error for the MP4 file, although it seems to handle this
more gracefully than WinAmp. The videos play back fine on the phone.
Can someone point me to the codec(s) or the right software to play
these back and convert them into a common format that other people can
watch? Any help appreciated... thanks

mad.scientist.jr******.com wrote in news:1189026368.981936.192720@
57g2000hsv.googlegroups.com:

> I have some videos recorded on a Verizon Wireless XV6700 (aka UT
> Starcom XV6700), some in MP4 and some in AVI (mjpeg). I can't get
> either of these to play on my XP machine. Windows Media Player 11
> won't recognize the files when I browse to the directory. I can open
> the AVI in WinAmp and it plays the audio, but the video is just black.
> The MP4 file crashes WinAmp. If I try renaming the files .mpeg, WMP 11
> behaves similarly, plays audio from the MJPEG with no video, and
> displays an error for the MP4 file, although it seems to handle this
> more gracefully than WinAmp. The videos play back fine on the phone.
> Can someone point me to the codec(s) or the right software to play
> these back and convert them into a common format that other people can
> watch? Any help appreciated... thanks
>
>

http://www.videolan.org/

Download VLC (videolan client) for free from the French students who
wrote it. It's such a good program, Hollywood went after the students
trying to force them to take it off the net because it can play anything,
protected or not, with its OWN codecs, not using the hobbled up codecs
from Micro$not or others. VLC is great for playing all the movies from
Usenet, like alt.binaries.movies.divx and others.

Simply install it like any other program automatically. Let it become
the default video player for all formats it supports...all except
Realvideo, which is proprietary and threatened to sue.

VLC works great on all the files....(c;


Larry
--
Search youtube for "Depleted Uranium"
The ultimate dirty bomb......

mad.scientist.jr******.com wrote in news:1189026368.981936.192720@
57g2000hsv.googlegroups.com:

> Any help appreciated... thanks

Oh, one more thing. VLC also plays .ts hdtv clips for you. I just
discovered that this week...the first time I'd downloaded them....(c;

Larry
--
Search youtube for "Depleted Uranium"
The ultimate dirty bomb......