Playing movies shot using Canon A540

[harishkumar09]

Hi Guys,
I have a canon A540 and I have captured many movies.I am not able to play these in the usual Windows Media Player or other software.Can you tell me what software I should use to play these movies ?

[David Metsky]

They should play just fine in Windows Media Player. Are you sure they are downloading correctly, and your computer is set up to use WMP as the default? Have you tried to play them on another computer?

-dave-

[Visual Reality]

As said they should work just fine in Windows.

If anything, try this. This is the top codec pack on the web and will let you play virtually any type of video and audio file on your computer.

http://www.free-codecs.com/download/K_Lite_Codec_Pack.htm

Alternate link:
http://codecguide.com/download_kl.htm

[reppans]

Hmmm... my Canon videos (.AVI) always pulls up Quicktime Player, whether using our Windows or Mac machine.

Here's the free link for Quicktime for Windows:

http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/win.html

[David Metsky]

Hmmm... my Canon videos (.AVI) always pulls up Quicktime Player, whether using our Windows or Mac machine.
That's simply because your machines are set up to use Quicktime for AVI files. You can make any program the default for any files.

[harishkumar09]

Well then this is a movie I captured using my Canon A540 powershot.Just a small clip of my room.Can you just check and tell me if it plays in WMP ?

http://rapidshare.com/files/36663468/Image001.avi

[David Metsky]

Yup, plays just fine.

[ooverdrive]

Real player virtually plays all media files for me.give it a try

[harishkumar09]

Real player virtually plays all media files for me.give it a try


I ahve real player and I was not able to play with it.

[harishkumar09]

Yup, plays just fine.

Hi Mr.Metsky , I know I should not be asking you this , you are a senior member , but I have experienced such frustration so kindly forgive me.Can you tell me what exactly was there in that shot ? I just cant believe it played :eek:!!!

[harishkumar09]

I just tried playing it on VLC player a free software.It played very well.

[Paul79UF]

try reinstalling Windows Media player or upgrading to a new version.

As for people using Quicktime or Real player....I would uninstall those pita nagging programs for "Quicktime Alternative" and "Real Player Alternative" which once installed allow you to play those files in WMP.

[David Metsky]

Hi Mr.Metsky , I know I should not be asking you this , you are a senior member , but I have experienced such frustration so kindly forgive me.Can you tell me what exactly was there in that shot ? I just cant believe it played :eek:!!!
Hey, call me Dave. I'm just a senior member because I post a lot.

I was just a pan around a room, IIRC.

[harishkumar09]

Hey, call me Dave. I'm just a senior member because I post a lot.

I was just a pan around a room, IIRC.

Thanks a lot Dave.Thats what it was.It as my room and my computer.And what does IIRC mean ?

[harishkumar09]

Hey, call me Dave. I'm just a senior member because I post a lot.

I was just a pan around a room, IIRC.

Thanks a lot Dave.Thats what it was.It as my room and my computer.And what does IIRC mean ?

[David Metsky]

If I Recall Correctly.

I just made sure it ran, I didn't look at it very closely.