Spoke to a mate (Diploma in computer science) and he doesnt understand why they wont work, codec related vut it has him puzzled. He said to try this and it will tell you what the codec is apperently?? Another hurdle

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/avicodec.html

cheers bullet

not much more I can do mate, dont know enough about it. He said VLC should work too???

got this too mate, thread on the problem

http://www.winvistatips.com/mss1-codec-t813062.html

Bullet, thanks for your continued thought on this. Your mate come up smelling of roses with the suggestion of http://www.snapfiles.com/get/avicodec.html

This showed that the required audio codec was not installed. It wanted an audio codec called ACELP. A quick google search came up with www.acelp.net, where there is a free download for a 32 and 64 bit version. The site seems to specialise in codecs for speech and the mobile phone market.

So I can now watch and listen to the cyberdog tutorials on my 64 bit Win7, Yeh!! One word of warning however, this only seems to play on Windows own media player...VLC still reports a missing codec.

Out of interest, yesterday I opened up the first video in my wifes ancient non intel/AMD chip powered laptop of a great age...the process of burning to a cd-rom in a different format took more than 4 hours! it was encoding it about 1/8 speed of real time playback!.....and I still would not work back on my PC.

Thank you for your work, Sherlock! :)

No worries mate, glad I could help in some small way. I have a program similar SOMEWHERE for codec ID. I didnt think of it until he jolted the brain.

1/8th!!!!!!!!!!! jeez man there has to be a quicker way!!! LOL at least you are now working!

cheers bullet
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Thanks, Bullet.

Hope to be as helpful someday.

Cheers for now, mate.

hi guys i seem to be having the same issue with window 7 64bit, it seems its to do with the Codec (mss-1) but there is no deifinitive aswer to this as of yet.

did you get anywhere with it deathwish??? pain in the bum..Im glad I didnt upgrade..good ol xp.

cheers bullet

not yet still working on it.