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johnfowles · 07-19-2007, 01:16 PM

OK problem solved though quite why I am at a loss to say
Meanwhile a very keen old fan who is a true lighthead from head to toe very kindly emailed me another wmv file called remember.wmv (2,551,808 bytes) and that too was silent. At this stage instead of giving up I thought maybe I'd burn a video CD from the wmv file. No Nero Express took an instant dislike to the wmv file and would not touch it without giving an unknown rror message. I therefore opened my SUPER allcando video conversion program and told it to convert Landon's original wmv of 2,551,808 bytes to a VCD compliant mpeg-1 format file it did so and the resultant mpg was now a more reassuring
33,698,000 bytes and had sound.
Now to try another old wmv format video file that I know used to have sound
Partially OK the results were patchy 3 out of 4 old wmvs I tried that were handy played OK so quite why the other one and the three assorted Tom Rush videos failed I have no idea.
such are the joys and occasional frustrations of computers!!

07-19-2007, 01:16 PM	#31
johnfowles Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: New Jersey U.S.A. ex UK and Canada Posts: 4,846	OK problem solved though quite why I am at a loss to say Meanwhile a very keen old fan who is a true lighthead from head to toe very kindly emailed me another wmv file called remember.wmv (2,551,808 bytes) and that too was silent. At this stage instead of giving up I thought maybe I'd burn a video CD from the wmv file. No Nero Express took an instant dislike to the wmv file and would not touch it without giving an unknown rror message. I therefore opened my SUPER allcando video conversion program and told it to convert Landon's original wmv of 2,551,808 bytes to a VCD compliant mpeg-1 format file it did so and the resultant mpg was now a more reassuring 33,698,000 bytes and had sound. Now to try another old wmv format video file that I know used to have sound Partially OK the results were patchy 3 out of 4 old wmvs I tried that were handy played OK so quite why the other one and the three assorted Tom Rush videos failed I have no idea. such are the joys and occasional frustrations of computers!!