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jagdriver
9th October 2007, 18:29
I'm running W2K Pro on a Pentium II laptop, with no option to upgrade to WinXP. My contract assignment requires that I watch several MPEGs they produced. These are of such a flavor, however, that they'll seemingly only play back in WMP 10/11. However, WMP 10 cannot be installed on a non-XP machine. The company won't convert the MPEGs for me, and I'm running into a brick wall regarding borrowing someone's XP laptop.

I've tried several converters (Bink Converter, et al.), with no success. The Divx Converter comes close, I suppose, but gets hung up regarding an AC3 filter and comes to a screeching halt. I visited the Divx website to learn more, but non-video experts need not apply (read: I don't get it). And the Divx support team is negligent in responding to my plea for help.

Anyone have a brilliant idea, other than look for employment elsewhere? Incidentally, I can't run these at home on my home XP machines due to my 7-hour round trip commute (!) and the irritating need for sleep. (Like I said, "...besides look for employment elsewhere?")

Guest
9th October 2007, 18:41
Try VirtualDub MPEG2. Install the AC3ACM filter too. Get both here:

http://fcchandler.home.comcast.net/stable/

You can just play it in VirtualDub MPEG2 or you can re-encode from there.