Problem playing AVI videos

darkVOID · Post by **darkVOID** » Fri Oct 31, 2003 6:52 pm

XnView hangs when trying to play AVI made with a Fuji-Finepix.
Error message is : Video not available. "vids:mjpg" not found.

Where to get that plugin/driver ?

P.S.: I used: XnView 1.65, Windows XP

Aokromes · Post by **Aokromes** » Fri Oct 31, 2003 8:39 pm

Try getting http://codecs.nm.ru/mcjpg30.zip

darkVOID · Post by **darkVOID** » Sat Nov 01, 2003 8:24 pm

It works !

Thanks a lot !

Baseline Benny · Post by **Baseline Benny** » Wed Dec 31, 2003 6:21 am

Thanks also, fixed my prob also.

Ta,
Baseline Benny.

lotuseater · Post by **lotuseater** » Sun Feb 22, 2004 5:24 pm

darkVOID wrote:It works !
Thanks a lot !

Could anybody tell me which folder should I put those codec files in?

Aokromes · Post by **Aokromes** » Tue Feb 24, 2004 1:02 am

Simply click with the right mouse-button on the provided "mcmjpeg.inf" file and in the context menu select the menu item 'Install'. Or go to the multimedia settings and add the CODEC manually.

lotusetaer · Post by **lotusetaer** » Wed Feb 25, 2004 3:07 pm

Aokromes wrote:Simply click with the right mouse-button on the provided "mcmjpeg.inf"
file and select the install option, or go to the multimedia settings and
add the CODEC manually.

thank you

wolfi57 · Post by **wolfi57** » Wed Mar 10, 2004 4:28 pm

Aokromes wrote:Simply click with the right mouse-button on the provided "mcmjpeg.inf"
file and select the install option, or go to the multimedia settings and
add the CODEC manually.

I have the same prob but the link doesnt work. Knows somebody a new?

helmut · Post by **helmut** » Wed Mar 10, 2004 9:31 pm

wolfi57 wrote:I have the same prob but the link doesnt work. Knows somebody a new?

The link still works, please retry. Be aware that the download does not start immediately, instead you have to follow the link on the webpage.

VuDu · Post by **VuDu** » Mon Mar 22, 2004 12:25 am

it works to me, but not fully. it plays the sound but the image is now black.
any ideas?

it happens only in fullscreen view. normal view displays it correctly.

RIO · Post by **RIO** » Sun Mar 28, 2004 8:32 pm

i downloaded the codec and installed it - it's still not working. i didn't reboot, but this is normally not necessary when installing codecs.

the thing is, the movies (from digi cam fuji s602z) run on the windows media player (even before i installed that codec). it just won't run inside XnView.

any suggestions?

Mario

crazytb · Post by **crazytb** » Mon Apr 19, 2004 8:46 am

RIO wrote:the thing is, the movies (from digi cam fuji s602z) run on the windows media player (even before i installed that codec). it just won't run inside XnView.

any suggestions?

Mario

Micro$oft has done a lot of work to make "other" players don't work well... I cannot play ASF files (and other M$ video files) correctly using my video software of preference (I like BSPlay in windows). However, these files play correctly into WMP.

I don't know a solution to make all files play well in all viewers. Maybe removing newer versions of WMP, removing all codecs and installing only the free-for-all codecs. For me, the solution was: "I don't use windows anymore".

(However, I need to open it to get images/videos from my camera

)

Bob Geldork · Post by **Bob Geldork** » Mon May 31, 2004 4:20 am

I had the same issue with XnView (as well as with IrfanView) while commercial viewers such as ACDSee, QuickTime Player, and Windows Media Player had no problems whatsoever playing back MJPG encoded video streams. Using GSpot (http://www.headbands.com/gspot), I analysed one of the AVIs that XnView would not play back, and it found two compatible CODECs installed on my Windows XP system capable of MJPG playback. But why would XnView not recognise them?

Personally I think this is the fundamental issue that should be looked into and not what other third-party CODECs should be installed when the system is already fully capable of MJPG playback (as proven by commercial viewers). Perhaps these are a newer breed of CODECs (DirectDraw filters perhaps?) that are not recognised by XnView? Perhaps it is as simple as XnView querying for an MJPG CODEC capable of encoding as well as decoding when decoding would suffice?

Anyway, since I wanted a resolution ASAP, I went a head and installed the MJPG CODEC suggested in previous posts. As expected, this enabled MJPG playback within XnView, but in a flawed manner -- the video always plays back at 100% size in the browser, i.e., it covers the lower half of the browser window. (I've since tried to uninstall the CODEC but the system keeps on recovering it.)