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Probs playing files / which codec needed?
Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2005 1:40 pm
by myanidb23
Hi everybody,
i've got some problems in playing some files in my player. I'm using the Media Player Classic or the Win Media Player 10. I think there's a codec missing, but I don't know which one. Files I can't play are Hagane no Renkinjutsushi episodes 1-3 (don't got more of them) and Koukaku Kidoutai STAND ALONE COMPLEX .mkv files with jp and us vob. I think it has to do with the 5.1 sound.
OLi
Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2005 3:34 pm
by fahrenheit
have you read
this thread?
Tip: use gspot to open the file, if you are missing something it will tell you.
Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2005 4:25 pm
by Elberet
GSpot doesn't understand MKV. It can only attempt to render the file and tell whether DirectShow was able to construct a playback graph or not.
@myanidb23: (Creative nickname, btw...

) Since you said that your guess is the audio, I'll assume that you have used .mkv files before and therefore have the Matroska Splitter installed. So, regarding the audio, do you have AAC and AC3 playback filters installed? If not, get AC3Filter
here and CoreAAC
here.
Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2005 3:29 pm
by myanidb23
@ Fahrenheit: I've already read the thread and I used Gspot. It told me "Codec not installed" Name: 0x00ff: <unknown>, i googeled but couldn't find anything.
@ Elberet: My Fullmetal Alchemist (Hagane no Renkinjutsushi) Files are .avi I tried the aac filter 'cause I already installed ac3 filter. but i don't know if I used the right one. (I downloadet the .bat) how can I test if it works?
Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2005 4:34 pm
by Elberet
The CoreAAC Filter itself is actually the .ax file in the archive you downloaded. When you run the .bat file, it registers the filter with Windows. If you get a message saying "DllRegisterServer in CoreAAC.ax was executed successfully." (or something like that). Once you got that message, the filter should be useable by all players that use DirectShow, such as ZoomPlayer and even Windows Media Player.
Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2005 1:00 pm
by Ailurophobe
Odds are you can see which codec you are missing from the AniDB, since it has info on what codecs a particular file uses.
Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2005 5:06 pm
by myanidb23
I installed the COREAAC Codec and it works. But I've got another problem: I can't switch scenes within the movie. Each time I try to jump to any scene it restarts from the beginning...

Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2005 6:53 pm
by DonGato
You should disable the internal Matroska splitter and use the most recent one.