not a miracle video, but a miracle regarding videos

[brotherS]

Oh happy day!

After one of my apps started misbehaving last week for no apparent reason my long term problem with Windows Media video (I hate that format anyway) files fixed itself today!

Maybe a year ago Zoom Player suddenly stopped playing those (even the crappy Windows Media Player didn't play them anymore), and since I couldn't find a fix for that problem I started to use the VLC media player for those files (if I have to, I don't like that format at all!). Today I accidently tried to play a .wmv file in Zoom Player - and it suddenly worked again!

I have *NO* idea why this happened, but hope it will stay this way now

[mouser]

you probably installed some software that installed the proper codec.  some media program.

[brotherS]

you probably installed some software that installed the proper codec.  some media program.

-mouser (April 24, 2006, 03:14 PM)

No way! It still didn't work 2 days ago, and all that I installed since then were updates of Mp3tag and FastStone Image Viewer...

[nudone]

the vatican might be interested in hearing about the codec miracle. it's about time we had a confirmed digital miracle.

[m_s]

On FastStone's site, they list this among recent improvements:

Version 2.4    (Mar 15, 2006)
    * Now the built-in screen capture supports multi-monitor system
    * Video files ( AVI, MPG, MPEG, WMV, MOV) can be displayed as thumbnails in the browser. Double clicking on a video file will open it in the default media player (Screenshot)


So maybe that's where you got the codec!

Thanks for the prompt to update my Faststone - off to download it now...

[brotherS]

the vatican might be interested in hearing about the codec miracle. it's about time we had a confirmed digital miracle.

-nudone (April 24, 2006, 03:35 PM)

On FastStone's site, they list this among recent improvements:

Version 2.4    (Mar 15, 2006)
    * Video files ( AVI, MPG, MPEG, WMV, MOV) can be displayed as thumbnails in the browser. Double clicking on a video file will open it in the default media player (Screenshot)

So maybe that's where you got the codec!

-m_s (April 24, 2006, 03:42 PM)

No, the version I was installing was 2.5 and I also had installed 2.5 beta versions before. FIV installs no codecs, it just allows access to them in the viewer.

Thanks for the prompt to update my Faststone - off to download it now...

You didn't add it to your list of programs at http://fileforum.betanews.com/ so you didn't get a free email for every available update?

Shame on you!

[m_s]

I didn't know about that service at Betanews...  on my way over there to investigate.

[f0dder]

Perhaps the new install of farstone simply fixed some associations, or other registry deep black magic?

[brotherS]

Perhaps the new install of farstone simply fixed some associations

-f0dder (April 25, 2006, 05:15 AM)

Well, I could ask the coder, but since I installed 4 beta versions of 2.5 before installing the final versions I highly doubt that...

or other registry deep black magic?

or that