MPG does not play with WMP but works in Quicktime.

[KnuckleHead]

A friend and someone he knows each downloaded one of 2 parts to a movie. My friend downloaded part 1 to his PC and his friend downloaded part 2 to a Mac. Part one plays fine with Windows Media Player but part 2 does not. My friend and I (PC users) get the following error: No combination of filters could be found to render the stream". When opening in QT I checked the movie properties which didn't say much except there is a drop down that first shows the word movie when I click on the arrow it lists "MPEG1 Muxed tra" and thats all it says I can't see the complete choice. When clicking on the MPEG1 Muxed tra It does not give me any info. I don't use Quicktime for much and for all I know that entry is there for everything. Anyway could anyone tell me what the problem might be and how I might correct it so it could be burned as a VCD like the first part? Thanks.

[devinemi83]

If part one works fine and part two doesnt, that means something happened to part two, either encoded differently, or corrupted somehow. But WMP is known to be a little picky about its media. I know the for the older version is WMP player that comes with win98 if you try to play an MP3 made by real jukebox, it gives the exact same message saying that it couldnt put together a suitable combination of filters. But try it in jukebox, or quicktime, or any other player for that matter and it works fine.
Alot of the times, windows media player is just weird(yeah thats strange for a microsoft technology). My suggection would be try part two in another player.

[KnuckleHead]

I left out one important thing. Part 2 plays just fine using Quicktime. When I wrote the original message it wouldn't post and I had to do it again and I left that part out. Anyway, Nero doesn't like part 2 either. It gives an error message and asks if I want to fix it. I click yes and it ends up showing that what it is going to burn is only about 14 min when it should be about an hour. So this mpg plays in Quicktime but not WMP. Nero thinks it will fix it but doesn't. Even though it was showing a 14 min file when I knew it was more I tried to burn anyway and it gave errors and wouldn't burn.

[SanitizeME]

It could be that the Part 2 is actually a .mov file but just rename *.mpg. Certain files you can do that. It's like renaming a .mp3 file to anything and playing it winamp. Winamp will reccognize the file because it has all the properties of an mp3 even though the extension is different. I would suggest you renaming Part 2 to mov and use TMPEnc and convert it to VCD.

[KnuckleHead]

I tried to rename part 2 to mov but it still wouldn't work.