Posted by Rick Merrill on 06/14/07 16:11

Peter D wrote:
> Hi all and I trust this is the right group.
>
> I have a Sony DVD653E DVD video camera and an interesting problem in playing
> back the recorded videos.
>
> I dont use the camera all that often but have several clips recorded over the
> past 2 years. Recently I made some small videos and went to play them on my
> pc but I had a message which said "windows media player encounted a problem
> etc.." So I tried the file using real player and had a similar issue.
>
> The camera came with the Picture Package software and when using this I can
> play the clips on the pc whilst they are still on the dvd in the camera but as
> soon as I down load them to the hard drive I have this problem.
>
> I then downloaded the lastest windows media player 11 and had the same
> problem.
>
> I tried to play some of the old clips that had played okay say 12 months ago
> but they also have the same problem. Other mpegs I have on the system play no
> problems at all.
>
> Okay thinking codecs here. So I downloaded the K-Lite Codec pack and the
> classic media player within this package played the clips no problems but the
> windows media player and a couple of other small programs I tried will not
> play them.
>
> Help! this is driving me crazy as I cannot edit them.
>
> Any thoughts/assistence would be greatfully appreciated.
>
> PC is running Windows XP Pro with all updates.

I had used a Sony DVD camcorder for about 14 months then one day the
blankey blank disk would not read, so I deleted the DVD player on the PC
and rebooted the PC and tried again - no go! I had forgotten to
finalize this one time!

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