I recently completed a short video which I wanted to share with my office staff on the old office computer...it's a Dell running Windows 98SE with Windows Media Player (the machine doesn't have internet access). I completed my video on my home computer (which I use for my video editing projects), rendered it in the SHARE pane into MPEG2 format, and then burned the files to a CD-RW. (As a test, the file played just fine in my home computer running WinXP). I then transferred the files to the office machine, and attempted to play the file using Windows Media Player...which then told me it needed an unavailable codec, and couldn't play the file.
As a test, I played MPEG files from the CD-RW on the office machine that were included in the Demo files on the Windows 98SE CD, so I know that the machine is able to play mpeg files.
Any ideas to solve this (replacing the offfice computer not being considred an option)? Would creating the video files as MPEG-1 format solve this problem? When I was using Pinnacle studio for similar projects, I didn't have this problem...
Any ideas appreciated!
Problem playing mpeg file
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THoff
I think you are correct in your assumption that the MPG files that worked are MPEG1, not MPEG2. You could try to inspect the file properties using UVS, it will tell you. I believe the old Windows Media Player only had MPEG1 support, but not MPEG2.
So, you could render the file to MPEG1 format, or you could take one of the following two approaches:
1. Create a VCD. This uses MPEG1, and even the old Windows Media Player versions supported VCDs.
2. Create a MiniDVD. This is a DVD burned onto CD media. For best compatibility with older CD drives that aren't high-speed by today's standard, limit yourself to a 6000Kbps bitrate. If you have UVS V8, you can also turn on the option to include the Ulead runtime DVD player on the disk. This will eat up some space, but it will let you navigate a regular DVD structure. Because of the lower storage capacity of CD media, you won't be able to put more than about 20 minutes of videon on the disk, but this is often sufficient to share homebrew videos.
So, you could render the file to MPEG1 format, or you could take one of the following two approaches:
1. Create a VCD. This uses MPEG1, and even the old Windows Media Player versions supported VCDs.
2. Create a MiniDVD. This is a DVD burned onto CD media. For best compatibility with older CD drives that aren't high-speed by today's standard, limit yourself to a 6000Kbps bitrate. If you have UVS V8, you can also turn on the option to include the Ulead runtime DVD player on the disk. This will eat up some space, but it will let you navigate a regular DVD structure. Because of the lower storage capacity of CD media, you won't be able to put more than about 20 minutes of videon on the disk, but this is often sufficient to share homebrew videos.
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ericlast
Thanks for the thoughts...
I explored the hard drive of the old computer, looking at some video files that I had used in the past (that were created in Pinnacle). These turned out to be AVSEQ*.dat files; after searching...it turns out this is the video file created for VCD's, and these worked just fine on the old machine.
If I get some spare time later in the week, I'll play around and see if I can get it to work with the UVS-created files.
thanks again
I explored the hard drive of the old computer, looking at some video files that I had used in the past (that were created in Pinnacle). These turned out to be AVSEQ*.dat files; after searching...it turns out this is the video file created for VCD's, and these worked just fine on the old machine.
If I get some spare time later in the week, I'll play around and see if I can get it to work with the UVS-created files.
thanks again