My brand new GGW movie won't play in my laptop why?
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This is Yahoo Answers, not Yahoo sermons, thanks. It's more likely you have the region settings for your dvd player wrong than that god has smote your laptop. A lot more likely... It's also possible that the DVD has copy protections and wont allow itself to play on a dvd rom, only a dvd player. You'd need some program to bypass the protections in that case.
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You poor thing, who let you get a Mac? \n\nOk, I will leave the sassiness aside. Is the program you downloaded an .avi file? If not, what is the extension? I am guess it is is it went straight to Quicktime. Are you sure it is actually a legit download? Those P2P sources can be touchy. There is a link below to a thread of someone having the same problem. Sounds like it is a problem with that file type and player. Also looks like there is something in there about play unlicensed material. Funny how my windows machine doesnt have trouble playing a movie (ok, that is the last one).\n\nSee second forum thread below, they talk about that problem as well.
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The movies needs to be in the high format in order to view on your TV.  However if you only want to view it on your puter then save as MPG and windows media player will read it.  The file will be much smaller..  Or try Showbiz DVD 2 by Corel .. free trial d/l\nE
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Hi, install the codec pack from the link below. This should fix your problem. If for some reason it does not, please edit your question to include the file extension of the video your trying to play.\n\nhope that helps
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Quite possibly, you don't have a correct CODEC. Try this:\nConnect to the internet and try to play the file again. If an error message comes up, click on Web Help. Quite possibly, you'll be taken to this page http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/9series/codecs.aspx\nYou should be able to download the correct codec from there.\nHope that helps you out.
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Well 1st you have got to check if all the cables are working and are of the rihth tipe.\n2nd set your tv to AV chanel mode\n3rd activete the ports from your laptops video card software!\nit should work if not try a NEWER DRIVER AND BE SURE TO CHECK ALL THE SETINGS. p.s.: some movies wil not show on the tv unles the tv is the only video output destination(in this case it will show your desktop &curent player but the video feed wil be black)(solution switching off your laptops screen from the same software you switch tv output on)!
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Try opening you file in windows media player. If that does not work, install more codecs ( google search "codecs" ). You can also install vlc ( http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ ).
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Could be one of three things\n\n1. Codecs\nFirst check what codec the movie is using by downloading Gspot\nhttp://www.headbands.com/gspot/\nExtract downloaded file. open Gspot and go to FILE and OPEN. Browse to the video and see what codec is requires (In video block under NAME).\n\nSince you can see pictures it could be a conflicting codec. So if you know what the right codec is you can just re-install it, or search for an updated one on line.\n\n2.Computer\nIf your computer is very old and it is not a codec issue then that is the reason the video is jerky. For a divx 5 movie your computer should have th following requirements\n\n500 MHz Pentium 3, 128 MB ram. If your CPU is a celeron or Duron it should have a clock speed of 800MHz because these chips are a bit slower due to a smaller L2 cache.\n\n3. the video uses a very low frame rate. In this case there is nothing that can be done and the fault is not with your PC. Gspot will tell you the frame rate (In the video block next to FPS). 23.97,25 and 29.97 are good frame rates. anything lower than 23.97 frame will have a noticeable hook
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You don't have the correct type of video codec that is required to play that video file. You can have many codecs on your computer, you just are missing the one you need for the video file you're trying to play. that's it. \nTo find the codec of the video file (try right-clicking on the file), then google for the specific video codec for the windows platform (if that's your computer is, as Windows Media player exists for the mac as well)
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Check for DVD Burner or if it is a Codec go to microsoft, do searches and try installing ones that you may need.
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try getting a free copy of VLC media player. it will play just about anything there is, or look for the codecs for avi and the type of mpeg you are trying to play on line, download them and put them in the codec foldae in windows media player
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.mvi?????????????/\nthats a new 1\nhmmmmmmm\nrename it to .avi and see what happends\nget a "fourcc changer"  load the movie into it and see what codec its renderd under or try "g-spot codec appliance"\n\nwhat model is it? mine makes .avi\nmight be an option in the camera to change video compressi0n
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Try updating the video card drivers. Check the hard drive for errors, some files may be crosslinked. If nothing else it may be your card.
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It sounds like you are playing a file the protected, and you need purchase a license before you can play it.  Try to a play another media file from your computer and see if it works.
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You could try updating it to the new version. It could be from an incompatibility with the codec pack installed on the computer.
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first ask ur friend if he can't see the file that he send u. it might got  corrupted during downloading. redownload the file . Here's a link to the problem http://www.moviecodec.com/topics/14157p1.html , and try to get the latest release of codec paks
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Try playing the file(s) in vlc (http://www.videolan.org).  This will play almost anything.\n\nYou say you have all the updated codecs, but it still sounds like you're missing something.  Try getting the Gordian Knot codec pack at http://www.free-codecs.com/download/Gordian_Knot_Codec_Pack.htm\n\nIf it still doesn't play, then maybe there's a problem with the files themselves (did you download these files?).  Good luck :)