2003-12-23, 04:21 | Link #1 |
Needs more sleep~
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: #animesuki
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Media player classic hangs playing AVI files
Ok my desktop computer running Media Player Classic (MPC) and ffdshow-alpha on Windows 2000 has no problems playing my AVI files. Now I'm on vacation with my laptop running on Windows XP. I had DivX and Xvid codecs installed here (because I seldom use my laptop to watch anime), which I uninstalled and replaced with ffdshow-alpha and MPC 6.4.7.2. The problem is, MPC always hangs when I open an AVI file (I tried Air Master 12, A-Keep's FMA 10, and even Onegai Twins 8). I can play these files fine on WMP 8 and Winamp 2.91.
After looking at the Media Configuration Guide by animaniac, I downloaded and reinstalled the versions of MPC and ffdshow recommended but they did not work. Strangely my ffdshow-alpha version was ffdshow-20030816.exe, and there was no such version of ffdshow alpha on the Sourceforge site now, but I'm sure I got it from there last time. Did they take it down due to problems?? Anyway I am back to ffdshow-20030523.exe again with the same problem. Does anyone know why? I also tried MPC 6.4.7.3 and 6.4.6.7 (from the guide) with no difference. Once I get home I'll try playing the files on my desktop but right now I have no idea what the problem is. Thanks in advance to anyone who can help. P.S. Actually I got MPC to work with FMA 10 once, which was right after I uninstalled DivX after realizing it was interfering with ffdshow. Now I only have ffdshow installed (DivX and Xvid are gone). |
2003-12-23, 05:28 | Link #2 |
Gunnm junkie
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Sweden
Age: 44
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Try using the non alpha of ffdshow or don't use it at all. The alpha version is buggy (and so is the non alpha, just different bugs), I have had similar problems with it. Ended up with not using it at all and I can't say I miss it. There is nothing that you can do with ffdshow that you can't do with some other codec/filter.
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2003-12-23, 14:17 | Link #4 | |
White Dragon
Join Date: Dec 2003
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2003-12-25, 03:13 | Link #5 |
Needs more sleep~
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: #animesuki
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Ok mplayer2 hangs when trying to load the AVI file as well. So it's both MPC and mplayer2 now. Like I said in the first post, WMP 8 works fine. Are MPC and mplayer2 related in some way or uses the same DLLs? I've been using MPC and ffdshow-alpha on my desktop for a few months now without any such problems. I've tried the non-alpha version of ffdshow before on my desktop, and I do find that it is more buggy and outdated than the alpha version.
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