Author: Tina Long
Date: 20:15:15 11/02/99
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On November 02, 1999 at 22:22:56, Micheal Cummings wrote: >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. Thanks Micheal, Downloading that now, about to go to the info page & read more about it. "And it will load all the appropriate drivers and update them for you." sounds like the fix we need. It all gets a bit complicated for this blonde & her poor old stepdad. Your first posts on CM7k & drivers made me shudder. If this works for us I'll send you a thanks by EMail. If it doesn't I'll deride you in this very forum :} Thanks again, Tina Long
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