Hi A program I have (Fritz9 chess) refuses to play it's own directory .avi files and it gives a message saying install WMP9 when WMP11 is installed. Is there any way to fix this apparent WMP version conflict as I would like this chess program to show these .avi multimedia files. (NB I have emailed Fritz9 makers ChessBase but have not yet received a reply). If anyone has any idea if & how this can be resolved I am most grateful for replies please.Many thanks -- RPD
On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 03:41:00 -0800, RPD wrote: >Hi >A program I have (Fritz9 chess) refuses to play it's own directory .avi >files and it gives a message saying install WMP9 when WMP11 is installed. >Is there any way to fix this apparent WMP version conflict as I would like >this chess program to show these .avi multimedia files. >(NB I have emailed Fritz9 makers ChessBase but have not yet received a reply). >If anyone has any idea if & how this can be resolved I am most grateful for >replies please.Many thanks It depends whether the issue you're having is that Fritz Chess itself is trying to play the videos, or if you're seeing this problem when playing the videos from it's AVI directory in media player. GSpot http://www.headbands.com/gspot/ is able to say what the required playback codec would be for a specific AVI file, so find the directory of videos (they're likely to be all in the same format) and run GSpot on one or two, write down the audio and video codec and we should be able to find one to get you running those videos in media player. If the chess program authors have incorrectly written their program to require *only* an earlier version of media player before it plays back in the program - as you say the only recourse would be to contact the authors and get them to fix or patch their program to recognise there've been 2 more versions of WMP since WMP9 PS this is a Mac newsgroup, so it's probably the wrong place to have asked this - WMP9 is the last version on Mac OSX, only windows got WMP10 and 11. HTH Cheers - Neil
Hi Neil Thanks for your help. Yes the Fritz multimedia files are .wmv & they run OK in WMP11 on their own but do not run from the Fritz9 program. (In the Fritz program they should coordinate with a chess pgn game viewer to show the moves that are played & which the speakers are describing. On their own no chess board viewer displays so it is hard to follow the moves from the speaker's commentary alone) I wonder if Fritz9 is configured to look in the right directory for WMP? (not that I can remember which directory WMP11 is in or where this directory would be on my computer!). When I ran GSpot it said undefined codec. Sorry for posting in the wrong group. Again thanks for your help, best wishes -- RPD "Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" wrote: > On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 03:41:00 -0800, RPD > wrote: > > >Hi > >A program I have (Fritz9 chess) refuses to play it's own directory .avi > >files and it gives a message saying install WMP9 when WMP11 is installed. > >Is there any way to fix this apparent WMP version conflict as I would like > >this chess program to show these .avi multimedia files. > >(NB I have emailed Fritz9 makers ChessBase but have not yet received a reply). > >If anyone has any idea if & how this can be resolved I am most grateful for > >replies please.Many thanks > > > It depends whether the issue you're having is that Fritz Chess itself > is trying to play the videos, or if you're seeing this problem when > playing the videos from it's AVI directory in media player. > > GSpot http://www.headbands.com/gspot/ is able to say what the required > playback codec would be for a specific AVI file, so find the directory > of videos (they're likely to be all in the same format) and run GSpot > on one or two, write down the audio and video codec and we should be > able to find one to get you running those videos in media player. > > If the chess program authors have incorrectly written their program to > require *only* an earlier version of media player before it plays back > in the program - as you say the only recourse would be to contact the > authors and get them to fix or patch their program to recognise > there've been 2 more versions of WMP since WMP9 > > PS this is a Mac newsgroup, so it's probably the wrong place to have > asked this - WMP9 is the last version on Mac OSX, only windows got > WMP10 and 11. > > HTH > Cheers - Neil >
The directory is pretty much always in the same place even on Vista so that can't be the issue. It's likely they're doing similar to what a lot of websites did - inspect media player version string (9.00.4.2567 or 11.0.6000.6344 for example), use the first digit (9, or in the case of WMP10 and 11 that's "1") and going "Opps version 1 is less than 9" Cheers - Neil On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 15:16:04 -0800, RPD wrote: >Hi Neil >Thanks for your help. >Yes the Fritz multimedia files are .wmv & they run OK in WMP11 on their own >but do not run from the Fritz9 program. >(In the Fritz program they should coordinate with a chess pgn game viewer to >show the moves that are played & which the speakers are describing. On their >own no chess board viewer displays so it is hard to follow the moves from the >speaker's commentary alone) >I wonder if Fritz9 is configured to look in the right directory for WMP? >(not that I can remember which directory WMP11 is in or where this directory >would be on my computer!). >When I ran GSpot it said undefined codec. > >Sorry for posting in the wrong group. >Again thanks for your help, best wishes
