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Cornflake
4th June 2009, 05:32
Hi all,

I'm having a peculiar problem while playing certain .MOV files in Windows Media Player - my 1280x720 movie files (recorded in Motion JPEG format) from my digital camera.

I use FFDShow for decoding my MJPEG files. Everything is working great, but suddenly one day I open them up in WMP and FFDShow will only show the first frame - and the video is reported to be something like 4 hours long! And if you look at the seek bar, it's going by like 5 minutes a second, like it's trying to play in fast motion. If I disable FFDShow, and use the Nero QT Decoder that I installed for backup reasons like this... the video itself plays in fast motion, like the seek bar too! :scared:

I think I've narrowed down the cause. It's not FFDShow (since it works fine in other players to open the files in question). It's not any other codecs (like the Nero one) because even if I disable all codecs and WMP simply plays the audio (with no video) the file is reported as 4 hours long and the seek bar is in fast motion.

I took a look at the Gspot (http://www.headbands.com/gspot/) diagnostic application and the only thing in common is that WMP always uses the "QuickTime Movie Parser (quartz.dll)" to split the file before playing. Any ideas on how to fix this?

- Thanks a bunch!

Midzuki
4th June 2009, 06:23
Try opening the "problematic" file(s) in WMP 6.4 (mplayer2.exe). Probably "something" simply skrewed the sytem configs for wmplayer.exe, and I have no idea how to fix that. Over here WMP 9 "all of a sudden" became unable to playback ASF files containing H264 (or any non-WMV codec). Anyway, I see no point in sticking to Windows Media Player --- too heavy, too slow, too unreliable IMO.

zachdms
8th June 2009, 23:31
@corn: Which version of WMP on which version of Windows... ?
Have you tried playback in graphedt?


@mid: you don't mention how what happens there (what error on what version of Windows)... ? Things typically don't break just because it's Tuesday: knowing what changed or at least how exactly it's broken is probably relevant.

leeperry
9th June 2009, 03:15
splitter problem I guess..there's a 4 MOV splitters in KMPlayer.