Windows 2000, up to date media player, how do I view the things it wont let me, even if i update the codecs it still wont work!

You're right. That bastard Gates has done something.

 

Avi used to work fine on my Win95 / 98. Now I've upgraded to Win 2k only some of them work - and yes I've d/l codecs etc until blue in face.

 

I've e-mailed you a small avi which does work on mine - just to help diagnosis.

 

Hmmm - wonder why?

 

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http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q316992

 

or if that doesn't work, go to http://support.microsoft.com and put Q316992 in the search box.

 

This page gives some standard test files incl avi. Their AVI works on my Windows Player. But other avis (my own) don't. One I know for sure used to work on this system and now doesn't. bugger.

 

I think it's a codec thing and might have something to do with recently loading Quicktime. Or not.

 

I will be working thru the Microsoft troubleshoot (sometime - not soon probably- kitties to feed, red wine to test) and if I find anything else, will post.

 

Otherwise God Curse Bill bloody Gates. Bet he drives a Supra.

 

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Windows the only O/S I know that gets worse and further retarded but looks nicer to the operator! LMFAO

 

You lot go on about Macs and Unix??? Don't make me laugh!

 

My Bro has got a lovely Sony craptop with 2000 on and whereas I could play the mpeg video on my craptop with Win 98 that Duffman did from Johnnies meet, he couldn't!

 

Windows = Fucking Donkey Jism!

 

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[This message has been edited by Timmy_Turbo (edited 13-03-2002).]

too right, Timmy

What if Microsoft made Cars...

 

1. Every time they repainted the lines on the road, you'd have to buy a new car.

 

2. Occasionally your car would just die on the motorway for no reason, and you'd have to restart it. For some strange reason, you'd just accept this, restart and drive on.

 

3. Occasionally, executing a manouvre would cause your car to stop and fail to restart and you'd have to re-install the engine. For some strange reason, you'd just accept this too.

 

4. You could only have one person in the car at a time, unless you bought a "Car 95" or a "Car NT". But then you'd have to buy more seats.

 

5. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was twice as reliable, five times as fast, twice as easy to drive - but it would only run on five percent of the roads.

 

6. The Macintosh car owners would get expensive Microsoft upgrades to their cars which would make their cars go much slower.

 

7. The oil, engine, gas and alternator warning lights would be replaced with a single "General Car Fault" warning light.

 

8. People would get excited about the "new" features in Microsoft cars, forgetting completely that they had been available in other cars for many years.

 

9. We'd all have to switch to Microsoft gas and all auto fluids but the packaging would be supurb.

 

10. New seats would force everyone to have the same size butt.

 

11.The airbag system would say "Are you sure?" before going off.

 

12. If you were involved in a crash, you would have no idea what happened.

 

13. They wouldn't build their own engines, but form a cartel with their engine suppliers. The latest engine would have 16

cylinders, multi-point fuel injection and 4 turbos, but it would be a side-valve design so you could use Model-T Ford

parts on it.

 

14. There would be an "Engium Pro" with bigger turbos, but it would be slower on most existing roads.

 

15. Microsoft cars would have a special radio/cassette player which would only be able to listen to Microsoft FM, and play

Microsoft Cassettes. Unless of course, you buy the upgrade to use existing stuff.

 

16. Microsoft would do so well, because even though they don't own any roads, all of the road manufacturers would give away

Microsoft cars free, including IBM!

 

17. If you still ran old versions of car (ie. CarDOS 6.22/CarWIN 3.11), then you would be called old fashioned, but you would be able to drive much faster, and on more roads!

 

18. If you couldn't afford to buy a new car, then you could just borrow your friends, and then copy it.

 

19. Whenever you bought a car, you would have to reorganise the ignition for a few days before it worked.

 

20. You would need to by an upgrade to run cars on a motorway next to each other.

 

(nicked from someone else...)

 

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3. Occasionally, executing a manouvre would cause your car to stop and fail to restart and you'd have to re-install the engine. For some strange reason, you'd just accept this too.

 

*ahem*

Originally posted by BigRoy:

Windows 2000, up to date media player, how do I view the things it wont let me, even if i update the codecs it still wont work!

Roy FFS! don't you have enough porn on there allready,why do you need more ROFL .

 

 

 

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mea culpa - I nicked it off a US website and didn't profreed it first

 

oops

 

Igo - the well-known tipping erra

 

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