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to: Rich Gauszka
from: Adam Flinton
date: 2004-09-08 20:56:18
subject: Re: codecs?

From: Adam Flinton 

Rich Gauszka wrote:
> FWIW I've used a little utility program Gspot with success to tell me what
> codecs I'm missing
>
> http://www.divx-digest.com/software/gspot.html
>
>
> "Dave"  wrote in message
> news:n5iuj0l7d4vcbsipumqtu4gi7fvae868bi{at}4ax.com...
>
>>I've been trying to view this short .mpg video, and none of the media
>>players on my system will open it.  I even tried stepping "up" to
>>WMP10, with no joy.  I am apparently missing the codec for this file.
>>
>>http://www.mmsfitness.com/syl/squat.mpg
>>
>>1:  Can all of you view this?
>>2:  For the .mpg experts, did they use an old, exotic, or unusual
>>codec to encode it?
>>3:  How do I upgrade the codecs on my system?  I thought WMP was
>>supposed to automagically do that.
>>
>>I also tried opening it in Real Player, Quicktime, and the DIVX
>>player, all gave me error messages.
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neat.

Adam

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