Playing video files

I have downloaded a few video clips. When I click on them to play, a Quicktime box comes up and says "Error opening movie" and "The movie could not be opened".
I called tech support today and whatever we did did not help any. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Well that's a problem to, Mircrosoft has choosen to discontinue Windows Media Player for the Mac, so over the next while, any improvements made to Windows media player will probably not work on it.
This is why you now see a free download of WMV, (from Flip4Mac) on Microsofts website, this is what they expect will fill the gap when Windows Media Player no loger works over time.

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Hello everyone,
My macbook taking too much CPU processing power for playing Video file.Below shared the statistics..Is it a issue..? can you please help me here..I can't play simultaneously 2-3 MKV videos..distorted picture Quality.
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mkv
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where a normal Linux system takes
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Thanks in advance...

Simple thing to try would be to disable composite and see how you fare then
Check the logs first, though

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It is most likely that the various files contain CODEC's, that are either not installed on your computer, or PrE is not able to use them.
You list several file types, and I would urge you to first see this FAQ Entry, then get one of the file info utilities, linked in it, G-Spot, MediaInfo, or MediaInspector, then post the details on the various CODEC's: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/440037?tstart=0
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Try either of the great, free media players, VLC Player, or MediaPlayer Classic HC. Both contain many useful CODEC's, but they do NOT install them into the OS.
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I recently upgraded encore from ver.2 to cs3 and find that ver.cs3 wont play video files.
It wont play the file in the project window, it just stops at the first frame. If I move the slider below the viewer the video material is updated but it wont play.
In the monitor view it wont play either, I can view the material by manually moving the cursor.
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Whew!
Glad that you got it fixed, and thanks for posting what worked for you.
Good luck with the interview,
Hunt
PS - BTW, welcome to the forum!

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I am going to have to write a technote about this, because it comes up a lot.
Flash Player itself is designed to play SWF content as a browser plugin or as an ActiveX control (when it's IE Windows).
There is a standalone Flash Player, but that's something Adobe provides directly as a feature of Flash CS4 Professional. It gets installed with Flash. We have made some standalone players available on http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html, but not all (and I don't know why. Looking into it)
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http://www.adobe.com/products/mediaplayer/
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I have a new macbook pro and I am having trouble playing video files. It seems like it is having trouble with the size of the file. I need to get this figured out because I will be doing a lot of work with video including using final cut to edit. Any suggestions for me to speed up video play?

Any suggestions for me to speed up video play?
Max out your ram.
It seems like it is having trouble with the size of the file.
Please clarify.
Are the videos home made, downloaded from the net, browser videos, streaming videos, etc.

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bzunic, have you updated the firmware for your model?.
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just keep updating the application and every thing will be fine
just check the details of the camera that u r using
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daedalusman wrote:
This just happened for the first time with an .mkv file I was trying to play. It started fine but then after selecting a menu option in smplayer the video disappeared. It didn't go black, the player just stopped presenting the video. In other words the player switched to audio playback mode only, the window was unable to go into fullscreen or be resized. Smplayer still works with other HD files. Deleting the config directory fixes the problem until I select a menu option, such as, setting the audio to 5.1, then the video portion disappears again.
Does anyone know what is going on here or have any ideas on how to fix this issue?
Thanks for any help provided.
that's because now mplayer they switch to libavformat demuxer for mkv and ogg and i think is a bug in smplayer because is making some configuration for files in file_settings in which is sets demuxer & co. this switch is confusing smplayer and it should be reported upstream
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I have backed up my iPad using iTunes to windows 8 Lenora laptop but I could not find my files and play video files in my laptop

You cannot access files in the backup on your computer.
Do you mean that you synced with iTunes and transferred your purchased videos and app documents? If that is what you mean, what videos are you talking about? If they are videos that you took with the iPad, they do not sync to iTunes. What files?
What exactly are you trying to do? Details please.

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I recently purchased a new hard drive and installed Windows 7 Home Premium on it. Since then, Windows Media Player has not been able to play any kind of video files or DVDs. I have tried using the Fixit tool and turning the WMP off and on with the Windows
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and
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People use one-player-per-video because you can't reuse player objects. Player is a parent class to a whole bunch of subclasses, each subclass is capable of playing a specific kind of video. So when you create your Player object, you're actually creating some subclass type that's specific to that video type. So while it's technically possible to use a single Player subclass to play more than one video, unless all of your videos are of the same video encoding / audio encoding...you won't be able to reuse it.
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