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[sladden]

G'day Y'all.
I am running 2 Toshiba laptops. 1 with WinVista. 1 with Win7.
I have a JVC home movie camera.

I copied all the xmas home-movies from the camera to the Win7 laptop.
I then copied them from the Win7 to a usb-stick.

If I play them on the WinVista laptop. Everything works fine (both sound and video).

If I play them on the Win7 laptop. The video works fine. But, the audio is terrible.
The only noise that comes out of the speakers, sound like the old-fashioned movie or tape-recorder when it got to the end of the tape and spun around flapping the tape.
If I play a music file it works fine.

The files are listed as 'type = movie clip'

I do have some other files in the computer listed as 'type = Windows Media Audio/Video file.
These files work audio-&-video fine.
I recorded these through the laptop camera-&-mike

Can some-one please tell me what is wrong on my win7 laptop?

[AnnMarie]

Hi sladden. What model camera do you have and what software are you using to play the movies?

There are compatibility issues with the JVC GZ-HD40/HD30 models and Cyberlink Power Cinema NE for Everio on Windows 7. See http://resources.jvc.com/faq/00/00/0...lity_chart.pdf

[sladden]

G'day AnnMarie.
I have JVC Micro Hard_Disk_Camcorder Everio [JVC - GZ-MG345HAA]

When I double click on a video file "Windows Media Player" opens up and plays it in Vista.
It also opens "Windows Media Player" in Win7 but makes that funny noise.

I have no other software installed.

[sladden]

P.S. I also have a "Brand-New-Ubuntu" install, and, that plays the movie files with no problems. Without installing any special software.

I know that, for a long time, the media used to report that everybody hated Vista. Then they said that everybody loves Win7.
But I am wondering if Microsoft removed something from Win7 that used to be in Vista.

[AnnMarie]

Not that I am aware of sladden.

I wonder if renaming the file extension from .mod to .mpg would help. Might be worth a try.

[sladden]

I un-hid the .mod file extension. Then selected it and changed the extension.

In the 'My Videos' folder it now shows as "2011-11-05 001.mpg" ( also tried mpeg) but the 'Type' Column still shows it as 'Movie Clip".

When I play it. I still get the horrible 'flapping' sound and no audio.

[AnnMarie]

Ok, I finally found a list of file types that are supported in WMP 12 and .mod files are not included. See Supported Files Types here.

So that leaves a couple of options, convert the files to a type that is supported or look for a codec that will allow you to play these files. Perhaps you had already installed a codec on the Vista machine?

[sladden]

[QUOTE=AnnMarie; So that leaves a couple of options, convert the files to a type that is supported or look for a codec that will allow you to play these files. Perhaps you had already installed a codec on the Vista machine?[/QUOTE]

************Smart Thinking AnnMarie************

I went into www.mediacodec.org/download and downloaded the 'Windows Essentials Codec Pack'.
That, among other things, included DirectX.

Now everything is working real good.

So, AnnMarie.--------ThankYou..............

[AnnMarie]

You are very welcome sladden and thanks for the update.