What do I need to get WMP and/or Gom Player to play
.MPG files produced by a WinTv card?

  Gom will play the file if it's transcoded to .AVI,
but not otherwise.

  MPlayer won't touch .MPGs either.

-- 

Jim,
English Region,
E.U.

Jim wrote:
>  What do I need to get WMP and/or Gom Player to play
> .MPG files produced by a WinTv card?
>
>  Gom will play the file if it's transcoded to .AVI,
> but not otherwise.
>
>  MPlayer won't touch .MPGs either.

I think you may be referring to MPEG 2 which are what DVD resolution is. 
This requires a Mpeg 2 codec Mpg 1 you will have as that is free Mpeg2 is to 
pay for If you get any DVD playing apps it comes with them such as PowerDVD 
WinDVD ect.  No doubt there are some Cough cough Codec's around But I 
couldn't possible tell you where

-- 
Trev
You can always tell a Yorkshire man,
But you can't tell him much.

On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:46:22 +0100, "Trev"
<trevbowdenAT.dsl.pipex.COM> wrote:

>Jim wrote:
>>  What do I need to get WMP and/or Gom Player to play
>> .MPG files produced by a WinTv card?
>>
>>  Gom will play the file if it's transcoded to .AVI,
>> but not otherwise.
>>
>>  MPlayer won't touch .MPGs either.
>
>I think you may be referring to MPEG 2 which are what DVD resolution is. 
>This requires a Mpeg 2 codec Mpg 1 you will have as that is free Mpeg2 is to 
>pay for If you get any DVD playing apps it comes with them such as PowerDVD 
>WinDVD ect.  No doubt there are some Cough cough Codec's around But I 
>couldn't possible tell you where

  Thanks. I had heard of WinDVD and I think I have it on
a CD which came with this computer, whether a full version
or not, I don't know.

  I don't mind paying as long as it works.

-- 

Jim,
English Region,
E.U.

Jim wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:46:22 +0100, "Trev"
> <trevbowdenAT.dsl.pipex.COM> wrote:
>
>> Jim wrote:
>>>  What do I need to get WMP and/or Gom Player to play
>>> .MPG files produced by a WinTv card?
>>>
>>>  Gom will play the file if it's transcoded to .AVI,
>>> but not otherwise.
>>>
>>>  MPlayer won't touch .MPGs either.
>>
>> I think you may be referring to MPEG 2 which are what DVD resolution
>> is. This requires a Mpeg 2 codec Mpg 1 you will have as that is free
>> Mpeg2 is to pay for If you get any DVD playing apps it comes with
>> them such as PowerDVD WinDVD ect.  No doubt there are some Cough
>> cough Codec's around But I couldn't possible tell you where
>
>  Thanks. I had heard of WinDVD and I think I have it on
> a CD which came with this computer, whether a full version
> or not, I don't know.
>
>  I don't mind paying as long as it works.

If it came with the computer, even if a Light edition, It will contain the 
codec you need Once installed youcan Watch in whichever player you like. 
That said I dont see why WIn TV did not have them

-- 
Trev
You can always tell a Yorkshire man,
But you can't tell him much.

Jim  wrote in
news:e7as04hv5ohsq9theb9hv4pg3nd5s5sjrs@4ax.com: 

> On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:46:22 +0100, "Trev"
> <trevbowdenAT.dsl.pipex.COM> wrote:
> 
>>Jim wrote:
>>>  What do I need to get WMP and/or Gom Player to play
>>> .MPG files produced by a WinTv card?
>>>
>>>  Gom will play the file if it's transcoded to .AVI,
>>> but not otherwise.
>>>
>>>  MPlayer won't touch .MPGs either.
>>
>>I think you may be referring to MPEG 2 which are what DVD resolution
>>is. This requires a Mpeg 2 codec Mpg 1 you will have as that is free
>>Mpeg2 is to pay for If you get any DVD playing apps it comes with them
>>such as PowerDVD WinDVD ect.  No doubt there are some Cough cough
>>Codec's around But I couldn't possible tell you where
> 
>   Thanks. I had heard of WinDVD and I think I have it on
> a CD which came with this computer, whether a full version
> or not, I don't know.
> 
>   I don't mind paying as long as it works.
> 

Another alternative is the free VLC player

http://www.videolan.org/

Plays DVDs and just about anything else without having to faff around 
with extra codecs.


-- 
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 David ~ Lincoln UK
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

In article , Grooove says...

> Another alternative is the free VLC player
> 
> http://www.videolan.org/
> 
> Plays DVDs and just about anything else without having to faff around 
> with extra codecs.
> 
> 
Alternatively, just install the fucking WinTV MPEG2 decoder. You can 
download the installation files from Hauppauge and select to only 
install the decoder.


-- 
Conor

I only please one person per day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow isn't 
looking good either. - Scott Adams

On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:17:35 +0100, "Trev"
<trevbowdenAT.dsl.pipex.COM> wrote:

>Jim wrote:
>> On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:46:22 +0100, "Trev"
>> <trevbowdenAT.dsl.pipex.COM> wrote:
>>
>>> Jim wrote:
>>>>  What do I need to get WMP and/or Gom Player to play
>>>> .MPG files produced by a WinTv card?
>>>>
>>>>  Gom will play the file if it's transcoded to .AVI,
>>>> but not otherwise.
>>>>
>>>>  MPlayer won't touch .MPGs either.
>>>
>>> I think you may be referring to MPEG 2 which are what DVD resolution
>>> is. This requires a Mpeg 2 codec Mpg 1 you will have as that is free
>>> Mpeg2 is to pay for If you get any DVD playing apps it comes with
>>> them such as PowerDVD WinDVD ect.  No doubt there are some Cough
>>> cough Codec's around But I couldn't possible tell you where
>>
>>  Thanks. I had heard of WinDVD and I think I have it on
>> a CD which came with this computer, whether a full version
>> or not, I don't know.
>>
>>  I don't mind paying as long as it works.
>
>If it came with the computer, even if a Light edition, It will contain the 
>codec you need Once installed youcan Watch in whichever player you like. 
>That said I dont see why WIn TV did not have them

   It seems to me it may well have. After all you can play
back what you record with the WinTV application.

   Possibly the other players cannot access WinTV's MPEG-2
codec?

-- 

Jim,
English Region,
E.U.

On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 13:43:10 -0500, Grooove  wrote:

>Jim  wrote in
>news:e7as04hv5ohsq9theb9hv4pg3nd5s5sjrs@4ax.com: 
>
>> On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:46:22 +0100, "Trev"
>> <trevbowdenAT.dsl.pipex.COM> wrote:
>> 
>>>Jim wrote:
>>>>  What do I need to get WMP and/or Gom Player to play
>>>> .MPG files produced by a WinTv card?
>>>>
>>>>  Gom will play the file if it's transcoded to .AVI,
>>>> but not otherwise.
>>>>
>>>>  MPlayer won't touch .MPGs either.
>>>
>>>I think you may be referring to MPEG 2 which are what DVD resolution
>>>is. This requires a Mpeg 2 codec Mpg 1 you will have as that is free
>>>Mpeg2 is to pay for If you get any DVD playing apps it comes with them
>>>such as PowerDVD WinDVD ect.  No doubt there are some Cough cough
>>>Codec's around But I couldn't possible tell you where
>> 
>>   Thanks. I had heard of WinDVD and I think I have it on
>> a CD which came with this computer, whether a full version
>> or not, I don't know.
>> 
>>   I don't mind paying as long as it works.
>> 
>
>Another alternative is the free VLC player
>
>http://www.videolan.org/
>
>Plays DVDs and just about anything else without having to faff around 
>with extra codecs.

   I already have the VLC player, it's the only one I have
outside of WinTV which will handle .MPG videos.

   Gom Player is _supposed_ to be able to handle .MPG and probably
WMP as well, but they don't. Neither will MPlayer or (the genuine)
Real Player.

   This way you could end up with a hard disc full of video and
audio players, as every video and audio site seems to require that
you install _their_ player!

-- 

Jim,
English Region,
E.U.

On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 21:43:32 +0100, Conor 
wrote:

>In article , Grooove says...
>
>> Another alternative is the free VLC player
>> 
>> http://www.videolan.org/
>> 
>> Plays DVDs and just about anything else without having to faff around 
>> with extra codecs.
>> 
>> 
>Alternatively, just install the fucking WinTV MPEG2 decoder. You can 
>download the installation files from Hauppauge and select to only 
>install the decoder.

   I'll have a look. I've downloaded and installed the version
6 software, but it seems to me that, if I can play back the bloody
.MPGs in WinTV, I must already have their MPEG2 decoder.

   I can use WinTV or VLC to play the recorded stuff; what worries
me is that I shall be unable to make a DVD from the .MPG files.

   The .MPG files from my previous FreeCom USB stick (which was a
bloody awful application) could not in any circumstances be made
into a DVD, even when recoded in .AVI !

   Video discs and the compact disc system in general are a bloody
nightmare.

-- 

Jim,
English Region,
E.U.