Why Doesn't Windows Media Player play it's native format AVI?

Posted: 08-07-2004, 08:59 PM

Daniel

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I have Windows XP Pro on my computer. I have the default
media player that came with it, 9 series. I bought a dvd
and had my friend rip it at work and turned it into a AVI
Movie file which wouldn't play at work either i tried
several times and finally had 2 download a DIVX player. I
wanna know what the error:

Error ID: 80040111

ClassFactory cannot supply requested class

means and what can I do to correct this problem. I know
the file on cd isn't corrupted cuz it played fine on the
divx player at work....I downloaded a lite version of the
divx player and it said it couldn't play it....I would
appreciate any help thanxs email me with suggestions..

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Khourieat

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Why Doesn't Windows Media Player play it's native format AVI?

Posted: 08-07-2004, 09:12 PM

Sounds like a codec problem, try downloading FFDShow or
some other codec pack. I play all of my rips on win media
player (except for mkv files...can't figure those out)

Keep in mind divx tends to have adware and/or
spyware...get the VLC player instead, free, plays
everything, no adware/spyware.

>-----Original Message-----
>I have Windows XP Pro on my computer. I have the default
>media player that came with it, 9 series. I bought a dvd
>and had my friend rip it at work and turned it into a

AVI

>Movie file which wouldn't play at work either i tried
>several times and finally had 2 download a DIVX player.

I

>wanna know what the error:
>
> Error ID: 80040111
>
>ClassFactory cannot supply requested class
>
>means and what can I do to correct this problem. I know
>the file on cd isn't corrupted cuz it played fine on the
>divx player at work....I downloaded a lite version of

the

>divx player and it said it couldn't play it....I would
>appreciate any help thanxs email me with suggestions..
>.
>

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Chris Lanier [MVP]

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Re: Why Doesn't Windows Media Player play it's native format AVI?

Posted: 08-08-2004, 02:11 AM

AVI is just a *container*, depending on what you encode the video and audio
with that is *inside* the AVI depends on if WMP can play it back. Install a
DirectShow filter to decode whatever format you encoded the video with.

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"Daniel" <bobqwhite@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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>I have Windows XP Pro on my computer. I have the default
> media player that came with it, 9 series. I bought a dvd
> and had my friend rip it at work and turned it into a AVI
> Movie file which wouldn't play at work either i tried
> several times and finally had 2 download a DIVX player. I
> wanna know what the error:
>
> Error ID: 80040111
>
> ClassFactory cannot supply requested class
>
> means and what can I do to correct this problem. I know
> the file on cd isn't corrupted cuz it played fine on the
> divx player at work....I downloaded a lite version of the
> divx player and it said it couldn't play it....I would
> appreciate any help thanxs email me with suggestions..

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