Movie files opening as audio in Media Player!
 

I have tried to download certian movies, been successful at the downloads, but when I open them, they open in windows media player as a song file with the media players visualization in the preview window, no sound, no movie. It is really getting frustrating because I have spent days downloading one particular movie on two different computers and getting the same results. I don't know if this is some sort of joke that is being played, but either way I need to know if there is a way to bypass this so that I can burn the movies to disk and view them on my dvd player. I am using Windows XP, but I also had the same problem on Windows Me. I have tried to download codecs and installed them but it did not work. Please help. Thank you in advance.

Trinity

Re: Movie files opening as audio in Media Player!
 

Which codecs did you install and which formats have the videos you downloaded?

This problem sounds that you have not the right codecs so I guess you installed the wrong codecs or not all needed.

Install the ACE codec pack:

http://www.codec-download.com/module...name=Downloads

It contain all common codecs.

Morgwen

It's all the files, avi, mpg, wma...if I am not getting a message about corrupt files, then I am getting a file that opens up with a WM windows media visualization. Funny, for the preview files, they seem to work fine, but the rest that I am downloading will not show the movie. I have downloaded other movies with the same extensions, and been able to view them, convert them, and burn them for VCD viewing in my dvd player. So it can't be the software, it is something wrong with the movie. Somehow either there is some form of copyright on it, or something is imbedded to prevent the proper viewing from taking place. The link you gave me, I downloaded the new codec installer. I'm pretty much running out of ideas here....other movies using the same extensions are working fine, but the downloads...I could download from a t3 file, a cable or dsl, or a modem, and still the same results, and also there are multiple files of the same type. If you have any other suggestions please tell me. Again, thank you in advance
Trinity

Did you check your file with GSpot or with AVIcodec ?