On 21/08/2004, at 3:58 AM, M. Sean Gilligan wrote: > This is a fairly common behavior across players. What (I'm pretty > sure) is happening here is that WM player is not recognizing the > *audio* codec that was used and that is what the error message is > about. It then goes ahead to play the video track since it has the > *video* codec. yep. for eg you used to be able to play avi in QuickTime as long as it was compressed with a codec that QT knew about, say cinepak. but if it is compressed using a codec that is Windows only then QT will try to handle it but probably can't show it. Same thing happens the other way. cheers Adrian Miles ................................................................. hypertext.rmit || hypertext.rmit.edu.au/adrian interactive networked video || hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vog research blog || hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vog/vlog/

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