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October 27, 2010 at 6:48 am #166683pottypersonMember
My N150 Plus is for travelling and I don’t store data on it. However, I do occasionally use it to view personal files from an external hard drive. No problems with that except that my Panasonic camcorder produces video clips as .mod files, and the N150’s Windows Media Player recognises them only as sound files. I tried Real Player with very much the same result (then quickly uninstalled it as it’s horrid!).
Strange thing is that WMP plays the video clips properly on my home laptop and my daughter’s, both running Windows 7. I can’t find any relevant settings and don’t want to go the trouble of converting the files to .mpg just for occasional use.
The only other thing to say is that I’ve reverted to an earlier Intel GMA driver (from the Samsung website) because the latest one prevents brightness adjustment; but I doubt that this is a driver problem.
Any ideas would be most welcome.
October 27, 2010 at 8:33 am #216680Fred232Memberpottyperson,
It looks like VLC http://wiki.videolan.org/Main_Page can play them with a tweak,
see http://wiki.videolan.org/WindowsFAQ-0.8.x#MOD_files_from_my_video_camera_don.27t_workElse, I guess WMP is missing a codec. I had a similar issue with videos from my Panasonic camera, but mine had video and no sound.
I did find this – “The .MOD format is simply a MPEG2 formatted video, and if you simply wish to view the files on your computer, it is reportedly safe to rename the extension from .mod to .mpg or .avi” at http://dotwhat.net/mod/2483/ dunno how true it is but may be worth a quick try.
October 27, 2010 at 7:48 pm #216683pottypersonMemberThanks for the suggestions, Fred232. I don’t really want to install another player (though I did try Real, which didn’t work either). I already tried renaming the file extension; also negative.
Ideally, I’d like to establish if WMP is broken and, if so, fix it. I saw elsewhere that there might be a missing codec, but I don’t know how to check or fix that.
October 28, 2010 at 9:57 am #216679Fred232MemberYou could try listing the audio and video codecs that WMP thinks it has installed and compare to see if they are the same on the working laptop and the non-working netbook.
open media player – help – about windows media player – technical support information – look at Audio then Video codecs (and compare). Hopefully the working system will have one the non-working system doesn’t.
I don’t have any MOD video files to try.
October 28, 2010 at 11:56 am #216684pottypersonMemberThanks for your further interest, Fred232.
It turns out that the WMP audio and video codecs on the N150 are the same as those on my Vaio laptop.
There are differences in the technical support information but I don’t fully understand the effect of these. The Operating System Indiv Versions are 2.5.0.0 (N150) and 2.9.0.1 (Vaio); an update check on the N150 reports that it’s up to date however. There are a few differences in the Other Binaries; I don’t know if these could be relevant but can provide details if they might be. The Plug-ins (background) are different but I’m sure they are not relevant.
The Windows 7 versions are different (N150 is 32-bit Starter and the Vaio is 64-bit Home Premium) but that shouldn’t matter.
I’m beginning to wonder if this could be a problem with the graphics driver. But controlling screen brightness on the N150 is more important to me than playing videos, so I’m not about to update it to see.
October 28, 2010 at 12:53 pm #216681Fred232MemberIt turns out that the WMP audio and video codecs on the N150 are the same as those on my Vaio laptop.
– Oh well, I was hoping (well guessing really) that a different codec would show up.
The only thing I’d suggest now is post here – http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/windows7 probably in the ‘pictures and video’ forum and see if anything useful comes from that.
Hope it helps, and if so let me know please. I never fixed my video problem in WMP apart from by using VLC and/or GOM (other media players) and setting these to play my MTS files, and would be interested in any fixes that may help WMP.
PS – Are you aware of any test/example MOD videos on the web from camera review sites?, I don’t mind trying one out to see what happens on my N220, if that would help.
EDIT – If I’ve read this correctly, it may explain why – http://forums.cnet.com/7723-7594_102-145687.html – Have a look at it, esp posts 14-16. Does the PC that works have a DVD player included? Also, if so, there is an apparently simple conversion tool mentioned. OR this post http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7pictures/thread/2e0b0231-c530-4b37-ad72-f7613dc1ea6a which leads to this codec pack – http://download.cnet.com/Windows-Essentials-Media-Codec-Pack/3000-13632_4-10662709.html which claims support for MOD files.
October 29, 2010 at 6:10 pm #216685pottypersonMemberThanks again, Fred232.
You’ve found the answer to the basic issue. I installed the WEMCP and my .mod files were recognised! Trouble is, WMP Classic came with the pack and it’s properties became those of the whole system. This meant that WMP would no longer display videos in 16:9. So I uninstalled it and will carry on with VLC.
I posted on the Microsoft Answers site but have so far got no further.
I could e-mail you a .mod file to play with if you want, but it’s probably not necessary now that we know the answer.
Thanks again.
October 29, 2010 at 7:25 pm #216682Fred232MemberGood news.
Its sort of solved then in at least you can play the files now.
Its a strange old mix up though with regard to what video type plays with which player. And quite why MS appears to have restricted the WMP in starter is a bit of a mystery.
Still basically solved. Nice 🙂
Thanks for letting me know.
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