i have a weird problem with videos i have created with media studio 7...

when i click on these files in windows explorer my screen goes black for a
few seconds ( im assuming a video overlay problem caused when explorer tries
to read the first frame in order to create a thumbnail of it) these symptoms
only affect mpgs in pal dvd mpg2 format 720x576 @ 25fps the problem is not
apparent on vcd / svcd mpg1 files

my hardware is :

athlon 2000
gygabyte ga7 vaxp
windows XP sp1
512mb ram
geforce 4 mx440 64mb DDR

has anyone else encountered this problem? does any one know of a fix?

i have tried video drivers, didnt work (

On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 12:53:49 +0000 (UTC), "Alan Hinchcliffe"
wrote:

i have a weird problem with videos i have created with media studio 7...

when i click on these files in windows explorer my screen goes black for a
few seconds ( im assuming a video overlay problem caused when explorer tries
to read the first frame in order to create a thumbnail of it) these symptoms
only affect mpgs in pal dvd mpg2 format 720x576 @ 25fps the problem is not
apparent on vcd / svcd mpg1 files

my hardware is :

athlon 2000
gygabyte ga7 vaxp
windows XP sp1
512mb ram
geforce 4 mx440 64mb DDR

has anyone else encountered this problem? does any one know of a fix?

i have tried video drivers, didnt work (

At a guess, while MS7 knows how to deal with MPEG2, the system in
general doesn't (this is the default state for Windows!). Media
player (or whatever) is trying to play them, and discovers it doesn't
know how.

My prefered fix is to install WinDVD or PowerDVD. These (although
they cost a small amount) are much better players of DVDs/SVCDs etc
than media player, and you get the ammusing side-effect that once one
of them is installed MediaPlayer suddenly knows how to play MPEG2
files.

Regards,
Harry.

On Wed, 06 Aug 2003 13:17:13 GMT, Harry Broomhall
allegedly wrote:

My prefered fix is to install WinDVD or PowerDVD. These (although
they cost a small amount) are much better players of DVDs/SVCDs etc
than media player, and you get the ammusing side-effect that once one
of them is installed MediaPlayer suddenly knows how to play MPEG2
files.

That's because the MPEG-2 codec gets installed onto Windows, and WMP can
then decode the video stream. I'm sure there's a very good reason[1] that
MS don't ship a MPEG-2 codec.

- Dave

[1] Not