Cannot install says no windows media player

[Meterguru]

I'm trying to install VCDeasy on my PC. I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate 64 Bit. It says it cannot install because Windows Media player is not installed or isn't complete and to go to Microsoft for a download. Microsoft will refer you back to your install disc they have no downloads of windows media player. So now what. Can't down load it but have it running on my PC. How do I get VCDeasy to install?

[Ai Haibara]

Unfortunately, VCDEasy will not work on anything higher than Windows XP. You might be able to get it to work in a virtual XP environment (does Microsoft still offer "XP Mode?"), but you're probably better off looking for an alternative to VCDEasy, as getting it to work might be more of a hassle than what you wanted to do with it.

[DB83]

The program installs but it will not run.

This is 'ancient-ware' and I guess, since development stopped in 2005, that it only works on XP or earlier.

Have you tried installing XP in a virtual machine on you Win7 ?

[Meterguru]

Got it to work in the virtual pc but didn't do what i needed any way. I had download a torrent file and it was in the kvcd bin format and I cannot get it to play. I get this message.No suitable decoder module:
VLC does not support the audio or video format "undf". Unfortunately there is no way for you to fix this.

Any suggestions?

[Baldrick]

A bin? Have you tried convert it to mpg with vcdgear?

[redwudz]

From our Glossary:

KVCD
KVCD is a modification to the standard MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 GOP structure and Quantization Matrix. It allows you to put more than 120 minutes of video on a single 80 minute CD-R/CD-RW. The KVCDx3 template creates 528x480 (NTSC) and 528x576 (PAL) MPEG-1 variable bit rate video, from 64Kbps to 3,000Kbps. One of the other templates uses 352x240 (NTSC) or 352x288 (PAL), allowing up to ~360 minutes on a single 80 minute CD-R. You must burn the KVCD MPEG files as non-standard VCD or non-standard SVCD (depends on your player) with Nero or VCDEasy. The KDVD version of KVCD allows up to 6 hours Full D-1 720x480 on one DVD, or about 10 hours at Half D-1 352x480. Because KVCD and KDVD are not recognized "formats", the MPEG files created may or may not playback in your standalone DVD player. More info at kvcd.org

KVCD is a very old format, I'm surprised some one is still using it. Probably from an asian country. It was used to get as much video as possible on a disc. Used commonly on a video CD. But it's very proprietary. Newer formats like MKV H.264 are more compact and much more common.

[jman98]

Install MediaInfo and go to the MPEGAV directory and open the largest .DAT file and post the results here. VLC should be able to play KVCD unless there is something really crazy going on with the video and/or audio codecs. You admit that you downloaded this so you do have to accept the possibility that it may be botched deliberately or through incompetence and you may not ever be able to play it, but post what MediaInfo tells you and we can at least see if anything stands out as a potential problem.

[jman98]

If it's truly a BIN format file then you'll have to first get some kind of image mounting software like Daemon Tools and only then can you even hope to use MediaInfo. It's possible that VLC simply can't handle bin format and that's the real reason it's not playing, but one you get it mounted it will then play OK.