No Audio Playing Mpg clip in WMP 9.0 or DivX Player 5.2/No Video in VLC....

[michael_metal]

I downloaded a .Mpeg file. I can view the video in DivX Player and WMP 9.0 (am running W98SE on this PC). However, there is no audio playback. If I try playing the file in VLC, it plays the audio but there is no video playback. Transcoding using the VLC Wizard does not help unless I want to create a WAV file.

File info shown by these programs is as follows:

1 WMP 9.0
Video Codec > GPL Mpeg-1/2 Decoder
Audio Codec not listed

2 VLC Media Player 0.86
Stream 0 > Codec:mpga (audio)
Stream 1 > CodecLmpgv (video)

Running G-Spot displayed the information (snapshot attached)

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I have run the codec sniper and replaced/reinstalled the few files it showed as broken. I have also downloaded numerous codec packs but to no avail. Any suggestions in this regard would be welcome!

Michael

[Baldrick]

Try Media Player Classic for Win98, it has a builtin mpeg2 decoder.

[michael_metal]

Thanks for the suggestion. I have already tried playing the file in Media Player Classic. Initially, it displays the message "Some of the streams in this movie are in an unsupported format. (Error=00040242)" and then starts playing the video w/o any audio. Precisely the problem I am facing in other media players too.....no audio