Alternatives to Media Player that will play .mpg files

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  1. Mos

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    Hi All, I have a few media players installed on my pc including media player 10, quicktime pro, real player, vobsub, and media TV.

    None of them will play a video file I have that is encoded with the YUY2 codec. I downloaded the Codec but didn't like the look of the installation instructions so wondered if anyone knew of an alterative player that might play files encoded with this codec?

    Cheers!
     
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    WinAmp 5.1 maybe?
     
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    RE: WinAmp 5.1 maybe?

    Plays the audio - but not the video.
     
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    Cheers - will try that.
     
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    Tried all of the above, nothing works - any other suggestions short of a new PC?
     
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    RE: Install ffdshow

    I did that, but unfortunately - no joy.:eek:
     
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    RE: Install ffdshow

    Do you have a software DVD player installed, eg PowerDVD or WinDVD as this should play it.

    How big is the file?
    If upload would be a sensible proposition I'll have a look at it.
    Send it to jnickd@lycos.com using yousendit.com or similar as long as it's less than 1GB.  If it's bigger than that then I can't be arsed, sorry.
     
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    RE: Install ffdshow

    I haven't got a DVD drive on this particular machine (I'm on a temp one and its about 5 year old) so unsure if DVD software will install or not?

    It don't matter about sending it, it's a few hundred meg and will take forever, I'll try and re-download it as an .avi and see if that plays any better.
     
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