Posted by Peter D on 06/16/07 07:14

In article <2s2dnSptzOU89ezbnZ2dnUVZ_ujinZ2d@comcast.com>, Rick Merrill <rick0.merrill@NOSPAM.gmail.com> wrote:

Ha ha

Thanks Rick and I wish it was that easy.

It is something on my system as the clips play no problem on any other pc but
with mpegs from other sources working okay on my system who knows.

Bloody frustrating having these clips and not being able to edit them :(

Cheers

>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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