Can anyone help? Or is it just that certain file?
Full Version: class not registered dialog box
[font=Arial Black][i]Every now and then, when I get a file, and try to play it, I get a box that says 'class not registered'. On the latest one, my real player came up for it to play on, but the dialog box was from windows media... Can anyone help? Or is it just that certain file?
Can anyone help? Or is it just that certain file?
That error usually means that you haven't got a source filter (aka splitter) installed for tha particular file type.
QUOTE(daringdon @ Oct 10 2006, 03:39 AM) 
[font=Arial Black][i]Every now and then, when I get a file, and try to play it, I get a box that says 'class not registered'. On the latest one, my real player came up for it to play on, but the dialog box was from windows media... Can anyone help? Or is it just that certain file?
Can anyone help? Or is it just that certain file?did u ever get this problem solved? I'm having something similar
QUOTE(asdf @ Oct 10 2006, 10:48 AM)
That error usually means that you haven't got a source filter (aka splitter) installed for tha particular file type.
is it newbie to ask what the diff is between a splitter and codec?
and where do I find splitters?
These are two words that are probably used more than most on the Movie Maker newsgroups and sometimes you’ll notice the words are used synonymously. So is a filter the same as a codec or not? Well in actual fact they’re not exactly the same as I’ll try to describe below.
First a little background. What is a codec anyway? A codec is a piece of code that is responsible for encoding and decoding a piece of video or audio. So why would you want to encode a piece of video? Well the process of encoding, also compresses the video data. The thing with video is that it’s big. A typical video file on the PC has a resolution of 720x480 pixels. If you use 24 bits for each pixel color, then that’s 3 bytes per pixel and that adds up to almost a megabyte for one frame. If you have 30 frames per second a quick calculation will show that an hour of video occupies over 100 gigabytes. Even with the size of today’s hard drives that’s still a lot of data. (Note that there are various formats that are used to store color information, 24 bit RGB is just one that maps well for a computer). No matter which color format you choose, uncompressed video is still large. Therefore, instead of storing the data uncompressed, codecs are used to encode the data into a more reasonable size. There are many different codecs used in the world of video, WMV, MPEG-2, DV are just a few examples.
Read more here
You may find a few splitters on codecs.com . Haali Matroska Splitter is a really useful one
First a little background. What is a codec anyway? A codec is a piece of code that is responsible for encoding and decoding a piece of video or audio. So why would you want to encode a piece of video? Well the process of encoding, also compresses the video data. The thing with video is that it’s big. A typical video file on the PC has a resolution of 720x480 pixels. If you use 24 bits for each pixel color, then that’s 3 bytes per pixel and that adds up to almost a megabyte for one frame. If you have 30 frames per second a quick calculation will show that an hour of video occupies over 100 gigabytes. Even with the size of today’s hard drives that’s still a lot of data. (Note that there are various formats that are used to store color information, 24 bit RGB is just one that maps well for a computer). No matter which color format you choose, uncompressed video is still large. Therefore, instead of storing the data uncompressed, codecs are used to encode the data into a more reasonable size. There are many different codecs used in the world of video, WMV, MPEG-2, DV are just a few examples.
Read more here
You may find a few splitters on codecs.com . Haali Matroska Splitter is a really useful one
This is a "lo-fi" version of our main content. To view the full version with more information, formatting and images, please click here.