WMP won't play back mpeg file to the end - BillyBoy, GuruJerry

freechild wrote on 11/1/2003, 6:25 AM

I have a problem after installing Sound Forge: some of the video files I have no longer play back to the end when using Media Player 9, they will play for maybe the first 2 minutes or something (when total length is 10 mins or more). It's not possible to move the timeline beyond this point as Media Player thinks this is the end of the file, and so impossible to view the whole file.

If I uninstall Sound Forge they all playback fine, if I reinstall, they stop working again. I found a post here by BillyBoy back in May that seemed to be describing the same problem, and there was a followup by GuruJerry pointing him to the moviecodec website, but the thread on this site has now been removed.

Can anybody help me with the fix for this, as I am a big fan of Sound Forge, and don't want to have to use a different product for my audio editing. I don't know much about video editing by the way, I just want to play downloaded movies.

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BillyBoy wrote on 11/1/2003, 10:05 AM

I'm not that big a fan of Microsoft's Media Player. It can stumble on some files its suppose to play. I too see the play for a two minutes or so and then it either pauses, skips on hangs totally. It doesn't appear to be anything wrong with the file being played, rather Media Player.

I use several different players. You can get a bunch of free ones off the web. A few minutes searching should produce several.

For DivX files, you're probably better off using a DivX player. You can fine one at the following link plus a lot of other useful information about DivX.

I haven't upgraded to SoundForge 7 yet, so can't help you with that.

http://www.divx.com/movies/

freechild wrote on 11/1/2003, 10:06 AM

I've fixed this problem now, by renaming the file mcspmpeg.ax to mcspmpeg.ax.old in the two folders:

C:\Program Files\Sony\Shared Plug-Ins\File Formats\MCMPEG
C:\Program Files\Sonic Foundry\Shared Plug-Ins\File Formats\MCMPEG

It's the MainConcept MPEG I/II Splitter installed by pretty much all Sonic Foundry / Sony software. While I was looking for .ax files, I found masses of them, and none of these are visible in the codecs list in Device Manager - I thought this was where you are suposed to manage these things...

So what affect will renaming this file have on Sound Forge / Vegas etc? Why has this caused the trouble in the first place? and if this is a codec installed by Sony, then why could I not see this listed in the video codecs in Device Manager? Is there some utility out there that can manage codecs and tell me what's installed and what's used by what, or is the only way to hack your computer with a butcher's knife?

freechild wrote on 11/1/2003, 10:08 AM

Thanks for the reply, looks like I posted my fix at exactly the same time!

BillyBoy wrote on 11/1/2003, 10:12 AM

I looked at the site I referenced too and its changed a awful lot since I last looked

Try this one: http://www.divx.com/divx/

From there you can download a DivX codec by itself.