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frankg
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      01-14-2008
How do you know which codecs are missing if there's no error message ?
There is no video (only audio) on .mov (quicktime) files which are
embedded in Acrobat Reader documents.
 
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Jon
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      01-14-2008
You won't be able to play those with Windows Media Player if that is what
you were thinking.

Try here for Apple's Quicktime player

http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/

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"frankg" <> wrote in message
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> How do you know which codecs are missing if there's no error message ?
> There is no video (only audio) on .mov (quicktime) files which are
> embedded in Acrobat Reader documents.


 
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      01-14-2008
Thanks Jon but i do have Quicktime installed and still cant play the
movie files (audio only).

On Jan 13, 9:52 pm, "Jon" <Email_Addr...@SomewhereOrOther.com> wrote:
> You won't be able to play those with Windows Media Player if that is what
> you were thinking.
>
> Try here for Apple's Quicktime player
>
> http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/
>
> --
> Jon
>
> "frankg" <frankgr...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> news:97aa8d53-5d9a-428c-9359-...
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> > How do you know which codecs are missing if there's no error message ?
> > There is no video (only audio) on .mov (quicktime) files which are
> > embedded in Acrobat Reader documents.


 
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John Inzer
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      01-14-2008
frankg wrote:
> Thanks Jon but i do have Quicktime installed and still cant play the
> movie files (audio only).

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Are you saying the QuickTime player won't play the .mov files?

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      01-14-2008
On Jan 13, 10:14 pm, "John Inzer" <oo...@doobie.xyz> wrote:
> frankg wrote:
> > Thanks Jon but i do have Quicktime installed and still cant play the
> > movie files (audio only).

>
> ==============================
> Are you saying the QuickTime player won't play the .mov files?
>
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> John Inzer
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> Highlights and FAQshttp://support.microsoft.com/ph/695
>
> Notice
> This is not tech support
> I am a volunteer
>
> Solutions that work for
> me may not work for you
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> Proceed at your own risk


Yes, exactly. It'll play the audio but not the video.
However, it's a little more complicated because I can play audio And
video of other quicktime files that I tried & tested by going to the
apple site and playing their movie trailers.
Also, these .mov that I'm having trouble with are embedded in PDF file
as a media link.
Even if I bypass the pdf link and go directly to the media folder and
try and play them directly the same problem persists.

I have a university course on a dvd. They are PDF 's with media links
within the document. The requirements are to have Adobe reader,
Quicktime, flash, IE (I have the latest of all as well as another
browser Firefox). I've checked if the display adapter needs an updated
driver. Set all the preferences for QT and Adobe reader, tried a few
more codecs all to no avaiil
 
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      01-14-2008

"frankg" <> wrote in message
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> Yes, exactly. It'll play the audio but not the video.
> However, it's a little more complicated because I can play audio And
> video of other quicktime files that I tried & tested by going to the
> apple site and playing their movie trailers.
> Also, these .mov that I'm having trouble with are embedded in PDF file
> as a media link.
> Even if I bypass the pdf link and go directly to the media folder and
> try and play them directly the same problem persists.
>
> I have a university course on a dvd. They are PDF 's with media links
> within the document. The requirements are to have Adobe reader,
> Quicktime, flash, IE (I have the latest of all as well as another
> browser Firefox). I've checked if the display adapter needs an updated
> driver. Set all the preferences for QT and Adobe reader, tried a few
> more codecs all to no avaiil





Is it possible that there is no associated video with them and that they are
primarily audio? - eg podcasts or something similar or with perhaps just the
odd static frame appearing later.


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Emil Lulic
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      01-14-2008
Sorry for jumping into a perfectly good conversation, but maybe the files
are corrupted, or have suffered during download. Try re-downloading them if
possible.

Emil Lulic

"Jon" <> wrote in message
news:...
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> "frankg" <> wrote in message
> news:0511b4fa-d2b0-4ad0-a8b3-...
>> Yes, exactly. It'll play the audio but not the video.
>> However, it's a little more complicated because I can play audio And
>> video of other quicktime files that I tried & tested by going to the
>> apple site and playing their movie trailers.
>> Also, these .mov that I'm having trouble with are embedded in PDF file
>> as a media link.
>> Even if I bypass the pdf link and go directly to the media folder and
>> try and play them directly the same problem persists.
>>
>> I have a university course on a dvd. They are PDF 's with media links
>> within the document. The requirements are to have Adobe reader,
>> Quicktime, flash, IE (I have the latest of all as well as another
>> browser Firefox). I've checked if the display adapter needs an updated
>> driver. Set all the preferences for QT and Adobe reader, tried a few
>> more codecs all to no avaiil

>
>
>
>
> Is it possible that there is no associated video with them and that they
> are primarily audio? - eg podcasts or something similar or with perhaps
> just the odd static frame appearing later.
>
>
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      01-14-2008
On Jan 13, 11:52 pm, "Jon" <Email_Addr...@SomewhereOrOther.com> wrote:
> "frankg" <frankgr...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:0511b4fa-d2b0-4ad0-a8b3-...
>
> > Yes, exactly. It'll play the audio but not the video.
> > However, it's a little more complicated because I can play audio And
> > video of other quicktime files that I tried & tested by going to the
> > apple site and playing their movie trailers.
> > Also, these .mov that I'm having trouble with are embedded in PDF file
> > as a media link.
> > Even if I bypass the pdf link and go directly to the media folder and
> > try and play them directly the same problem persists.

>
> > I have a university course on a dvd. They are PDF 's with media links
> > within the document. The requirements are to have Adobe reader,
> > Quicktime, flash, IE (I have the latest of all as well as another
> > browser Firefox). I've checked if the display adapter needs an updated
> > driver. Set all the preferences for QT and Adobe reader, tried a few
> > more codecs all to no avaiil

>
> Is it possible that there is no associated video with them and that they are
> primarily audio? - eg podcasts or something similar or with perhaps just the
> odd static frame appearing later.
>
> --
> Jon


No, because I can play the video & audio when I insert the dvd into a
machine running XP
 
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      01-14-2008
On Jan 14, 1:55 am, "Emil Lulic" <em...@eunet.yu> wrote:
> Sorry for jumping into a perfectly good conversation, but maybe the files
> are corrupted, or have suffered during download. Try re-downloading them if
> possible.
>
> Emil Lulic
>
> "Jon" <Email_Addr...@SomewhereOrOther.com> wrote in message
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> news:...
>
>
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> > "frankg" <frankgr...@gmail.com> wrote in message
> >news:0511b4fa-d2b0-4ad0-a8b3-...
> >> Yes, exactly. It'll play the audio but not the video.
> >> However, it's a little more complicated because I can play audio And
> >> video of other quicktime files that I tried & tested by going to the
> >> apple site and playing their movie trailers.
> >> Also, these .mov that I'm having trouble with are embedded in PDF file
> >> as a media link.
> >> Even if I bypass the pdf link and go directly to the media folder and
> >> try and play them directly the same problem persists.

>
> >> I have a university course on a dvd. They are PDF 's with media links
> >> within the document. The requirements are to have Adobe reader,
> >> Quicktime, flash, IE (I have the latest of all as well as another
> >> browser Firefox). I've checked if the display adapter needs an updated
> >> driver. Set all the preferences for QT and Adobe reader, tried a few
> >> more codecs all to no avaiil

>
> > Is it possible that there is no associated video with them and that they
> > are primarily audio? - eg podcasts or something similar or with perhaps
> > just the odd static frame appearing later.

>
> > --
> > Jon


Eric, I 've tried playing it from the dvd and by copying the files
over to my hd
 
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