[MPlayer-users] windows XP can't play mencoder files?

[D Richard Felker III]

On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 06:21:23PM -0500, Michael Waters wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 13:53 -0600, Jason Pepas wrote:
> > http://jason.pepas.com/wincompat/
> > 
> > those are encoded with 0.9-pre10
> > 
> > the ones in the "old" directory are with 0.9-pre6
> 
> I don't have winblows XP but in w98 in vmware, with ffdshow & divx5
> installed, they all play back fine except mpeg1.avi... which is weird
> because it's just mpeg1.  Maybe wmp doesn't like the fourcc.

Right. MPEG1-in-avi is not considered valid by windows/ms.

Rich