Hello,
I've been searching everywhere on the internet for a solution to this but could not find one single good answer. :(
hence my desperation of making an account here, just to seek direct help.
My problem is whenever I attempt to open one of my Videos in Windows Media Player (they're all AVI format), I get varying results, but none of them good.
1. I get the message "An audio codec is needed to play this file. To determine if this codec is available to download from the Web, click Web Help."
2. the the Video plays with no Image and only Audio.
3. The Video freezes at the first frame and can't go any further than that.
now from all of my research, It seems like Codecs are the issue, so going with what everyone else was doing, I used a program called GSpot that determines what codecs are used in specific videos, and I got this![]()
I continued searching for a solution concerning the results of GSpot and was told that "BI_RGB Raw Bitmap" is not a codec, but a format, there for no Video Codec is needed, and that PCM Audio is a built in Codec for Windows XP (which is my computer)
So I kind of got stuck on what to do from there.
for what might be useful information, I believe the videos stopped working when my computer crashed and I had to switch to a different Hard-drive and re-install Windows, then get the Drivers back, and I'm on a old Dell Desktop with Windows XP.
Please help If you can :o
I've been searching everywhere on the internet for a solution to this but could not find one single good answer. :(
hence my desperation of making an account here, just to seek direct help.
My problem is whenever I attempt to open one of my Videos in Windows Media Player (they're all AVI format), I get varying results, but none of them good.
1. I get the message "An audio codec is needed to play this file. To determine if this codec is available to download from the Web, click Web Help."
2. the the Video plays with no Image and only Audio.
3. The Video freezes at the first frame and can't go any further than that.
now from all of my research, It seems like Codecs are the issue, so going with what everyone else was doing, I used a program called GSpot that determines what codecs are used in specific videos, and I got this
I continued searching for a solution concerning the results of GSpot and was told that "BI_RGB Raw Bitmap" is not a codec, but a format, there for no Video Codec is needed, and that PCM Audio is a built in Codec for Windows XP (which is my computer)
So I kind of got stuck on what to do from there.
for what might be useful information, I believe the videos stopped working when my computer crashed and I had to switch to a different Hard-drive and re-install Windows, then get the Drivers back, and I'm on a old Dell Desktop with Windows XP.
Please help If you can :o