Windows 7 - WMP and flv file

Asked By species8350

31-Jan-10 11:37 AM

Hi,

WMP plays all my flv videos except one.

When I try to play this video I get the following message:

'Windows Media Player cannot play the file. The Player might not
support the file type or might not support the codec that was used to
compress the file.'

Any idea what might be wrong, and how I can fix it.

This video plays perfectly in Easy FLV Player.

Thanks

31-Jan-10 07:25 PM

'Windows Media Player do not
if it was playing flv file, that file is lying to you! they be avi, wmv, or
media file but no a FLV
But you may have a Pug-ins to play FLV  in Windows Media Player, then the
file is true
for you would know if you did install a FLV Pug-ins for Windows Media
Player!

Now if you have a Pug-ins for FLV,  that file is lying to you it not a FLV
maybe it a mov!
For Windows Media Player will play a video name A1.wmv that was rename to
A1.gif

it see not gif but wmv so if it was name A1.flv Windows Media Player will
play because it is a wmv file that lying flv .

OPEN your Windows Media Player
Click on TOOLS
Click on Options
Click on File Types
is the list of file that Windows Media Player will play
See no FLV because it is not a Windows Media Player file

01-Feb-10 01:13 AM

or
he
FLV

Don't seem to have File Types under Options?

02-Feb-10 05:38 PM

, or
the
a FLV
to
ll
.

Please note, I have the codecs installed that will play flv files

02-Feb-10 10:47 AM

Because WMP can play all other FLV videos, I suppose you already have
the FLV splitter installed?

Try downloading and installing FFDShow from
http://www.free-codecs.com/download/FFDshow.htm
Even if that is already installed as well, you could have an outdated
version, and installing a newer version would not hurt.

If that does not help, open the FLV file in GSpot -
http://www.headbands.com/gspot - and report back what video (and
possibly audio) codec is used by the file.

Regards

--
Tim De Baets
http://www.bm-productions.tk

03-Feb-10 07:27 AM

nload/FFDshow.htm
m/gspot- and report back what video (and

Hi,

I have FFDShow installed. ffdshow.ax, date modified: 31/7/09.
I also have FLVSplitter installed. flvsplitter.ax, date modified:
14/8/09/


I ran the file through GSPOT and got the following information:

File Type: Flashvideo FLV
MIME: Video /x-flv

Compatibility warning: Unknown flash FLV format.

Any advice appreciated.

Bearing in mind the date of FFDShow, would you still advise updating?
What about FLVSplitter?

Best wishes

S

03-Feb-10 07:27 AM

nload/FFDshow.htm
m/gspot- and report back what video (and

I have just looked at the link that you gave.

I see it talks of decompressing FLV1. I think that my files are flv.
Is this important?

03-Feb-10 10:45 AM

If not even GSpot can recognize the format, then you probably have a
corrupted FLV file. it is possible that Easy FLV Player is less sensitive
to corrupted files than FLVSplitter/FFDShow.


Yes, it definitely is worth trying to update both. If the file still
cannot be played, and you are pretty sure that it is not corrupted, I
would suggest you report this on the FLV Splitter or FFDShow forums.


What exact link are you referring to?

Regards

--
Tim De Baets
http://www.bm-productions.tk

03-Feb-10 09:26 PM

From the link that you gave, first paragraph: FLV1:

'FFDShow is a DirectShow decoding filter for decompressing DivX, XviD,
H.264, FLV1, WMV, MPEG-1 and MPEG-2, MPEG-4 movies. It uses libavcodec
from ffmpeg project for video decompression, postprocessing code from
mplayer to enhance visual quality of low bitrate movies, and is based
on original DirectShow filter from XviD, which is GPL'ed educational
implementation of MPEG4 encoder'.


For my reference do you have the links for the FFDShow and Splitter
forums?

Best wishes.




'

04-Feb-10 04:15 AM

Tim,

When installing a new version of splitter, do I need to re-register
the file?

Thanks

04-Feb-10 09:01 AM

This is not important. FLV1 is the internal name of the Flash Video
format. FLV is the file extension, so they are different things.


FFDShow: http://ffdshow-tryout.sourceforge.net/phpBB2
FLV Splitter:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli2/forums/forum/735607


The FLV Splitter has its own installer, so you should not have to
re-register anything.

Regards

--
Tim De Baets
http://www.bm-productions.tk

04-Feb-10 06:28 PM

607

I think I have the FLVSplitter file that I install manually. Will it
need to be re-registered, bearing in mind the fact that I have a
version of FLVSplitter already registered?

Thanks

05-Feb-10 10:57 AM

I would suggest to use the installer instead. It can be downloaded from
http://www.free-codecs.com/download_soft.php?d=4384&s=630

If you really want to install it manually, then you possibly need to
re-register it manually too, by running "regsvr32 FLVSplitter.ax".

Regards

--
Tim De Baets
http://www.bm-productions.tk

06-Feb-10 07:19 AM

tp://www.free-codecs.com/download_soft.php?d=3D4384&s=3D630

For a manual instal,l would it be best to delete the installed
FLVSplitter before installing the upgrade?

On a related point, FFDShow appears to contain the codecs. So what is
the role of FLVSplitter?

Thanks

07-Feb-10 11:24 PM

I would like to have the link too the flv file you are trying to play!

21-Feb-10 09:42 PM

Ping Tim,

I installed a later version of ffdshow, but some flv files still did
not play.

I downloaded and installed a later version of FLVSplitter, and all
files now play.

I had the choice of installing either the Release version or the
Unicode version of Splitter. I chose the Release version (using Vista,
32 bit). Was this the correct version to install under Vista?

Any idea what FLVSplitter.ax actually does?

Thanks

22-Feb-10 05:15 PM

It should not make any difference, unless you are working with filenames
containing (very) special characters (such as Chinese letters). In that
case, only the Unicode version will be able to handle the filenames.


A splitter is a category of DirectShow filters: "A splitter filter
splits an input stream into two or more outputs, typically parsing the
input stream along the way. For example, the AVI Splitter parses a byte
stream into separate video and audio streams."
See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd373390%28VS.85%29.aspx for
more info.

Regards

--
Tim De Baets
http://www.bm-productions.tk