Author: Micheal Cummings
Date: 19:22:56 11/02/99
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On November 02, 1999 at 21:45:12, Tina Long wrote: >Hi Guys, >CHALLENGE: My Father is putting this same request to a Driving Simulation Forum. > I reckon I'll get nicer & better advice than he will. > >With our latest issue of ICCA Journal we got a free ChessBase Magazine No 71. >That's good eh! > >When I try to play the videos, the player starts and there is sound, but instead >of pictures I've got a white screen with the message "Video not available, >cannot find ‘Vids:IV32' decompressor". > >I tried playing the .avi files on Real Player. Real Player went off into the >net to get it's required components (magic?), but gave sound and the same >message instead of Video. > >This same thing has happened with the opening video on CM6k & MonopolyCD Game, >for about a month now, we used to be able to see the movie. We also used to be >able to view any .avi files with no trouble (I don't know what program we used >as now I've made RealPlayer the default.) > >Dad has been installing, and uninstalling MP3 Players, Recorders, Rippers & >stuff. He has also been installing and uninstalling Driving Simulators (Driver, >CMcRea Rally, Toca2 etc). > >I reckon he has deleted a necessary file/s for .avi viewing. In the past with >this sort of problem the message says the file it can't find, but this is >trickier. > >We're using Windows 98. > >Any help or advice will be greatly appreciated. A recomendation of where on the >web I should have taken this request (the computer chess link is a bit tenuous) >will also be accepted gratefully. > >Thanks guys >Tina Long > >PS: FreeWare & ShareWare Rule!!!! Goto http://softseek.com/Utilities/Sound_and_Multimedia_Players_and_Utilities/Review_17075_index.html , it is the only place I have gone to and seen it, and download windows media player. This supports pretty much every sound and moving picture format you can want. And it will load all the appropriate drivers and update them for you. Plus just be careful when you load MP3 programs and such, usually you will find that some of your other programs can already play these formats. And this is where the problems start, some new programs you load to play these formats, disable your other programs from playing them, and also this can cause conflicts which can stuff up playing any of these formats. One program might require an extra diver to play a certain format, and when you load another program it might require less or different version drivers, which it then goes and loads onto your system, so now you have a whole heap of drivers that are not compatable with each other so they just do not work.
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