Playing movie in E-Prime: possible codec solution

[Catherine Ortner]

Hi everyone

I just joined the google groups so I could a) thank everyone for their 
previous posts about solving video playing problems in E-Prime and b) share 
my own final solution.

I spent countless hours trying to play my mp4 video in E-Prime - got it to 
work at home with Windows 8 and ffdshow, but could not get it to work in 
the office/lab with Windows 7. I tried ffdshow, shark007 (which I would not 
advise in Windows 7 -  since installing, and then uninstalling it, I am no 
longer able to open Codec Config; I later found some information online 
suggesting that it makes changes to the registry that do not change back 
even when it is uninstalled), and other codec packages as suggested by 
E-Prime support (who were extremely responsive and helpful in suggesting 
different ways to solve my problem), but to no avail. I also tried saving 
my video as a different format (mpg) but it still would not play.

Finally, one of the IT support staff at my institution suggested that I try 
the Combined Community Codec pack, which contains "all codecs known to man" 
(or words to that effect). I googled it, downloaded it and then I could 
play my video in E-Prime (even though Codec Config would still not open - 
the only way I've found to fix the Codec Config problem is to reinstall 
windows).

I just wanted to put that solution out there to others who may have been 
similarly frustrated with codec problems when trying to get videos to play 
in E-Prime.

Cheers,
Catherine Ortner

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Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology
Thompson Rivers University
Kamloops, BC, Canada

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