Media player problem

I recently bought a new hard drive, with XP home installed. Some of my old MPGs won't play. Some will, but some just play the sound, and a message flashes across the bottom "error downloading codec"

The movies all played on my old HD.

I installed all the upgrades from MS, including the latest DivX and media player version.

Any ideas?

Thanks

 

Thanks for the url Simon. I'm a little leary of the adware/spyware thing. I don't remember having a problem with that before. I'll install adaware first.

 

Yeah, the likely problem is you don't have the right codec, and MS doesn't offer it for download.

Codec packs like Nimo work, but I've grown leery of them. They tend to mess things up somehow.

I recommend getting GSpot, which will tell you exactly what codecs you need to get to decode your .mpg's. However, I'm willing to be you need either the latest DivX codec or XviD codec. And looking at GSpot's homepage suggests that GSpot is intended for use with .avi files and has only limited functionality with .mpg's.

Edit: Yeah, just tried it. It doesn't tell you what mpg codec was used. I dunno... are there any other MPEG codecs besides the MS one, DivX and XviD?