#555 H.264 video does not play in WMP10

[Brian]

I was trying to play H.264 video in WMP10. Somehow it didn't work. No video playback. For ASF, I could get audio. For AVI, WMP10 simply couldn't open the file, saying "either the file type is not suppport or...".

Are there any H.264 samples I can test on my system? Any documentation on procedures to use to play it in WMP10?

I used x264 to transcod videos I have into H.264. I tried the following two commands:

1) for CBR:
vlc src.avi --sout '#transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{vbv-maxrate=372,
vbv-bufsize=44,me=umh,trellis=2},vb=372,ab=32}:
std{access=file,mux=asf,dst=dst.asf}'

2) VBR:
vlc src.avi --sout '#transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{cabac=1,ref=8,
deblock=0:0,qp=24},vb=372,acodec=mp3,ab=32}:
std{access=file,mux=asf,dst=dst.asf}'

I also tried AVI as container of final files instead of ASF.

I ran VLC on FC6:
vlc-0.8.6a-1.lvn6.1
x264-0-0.8.20061028.lvn6
ffmpeg-0.4.9-0.34.20070204.lvn6

config of windows machine:
XP Pro
WMP10
ffdshow: I tried different versions of ffdshow
- ffdshow-beta1
http://www.afreecodec.com/win/552/ffdshow-beta-1/
- ffdshow-beta2
http://sourceforge.net/project/downloading.php?groupname=ffdshow-tryout&filename=ffdshow_beta2a_20070322_clsid.exe&use_mirror=easynews

VLC can play back the videos I tried on windows successfully without ffdshow.
- ffdshow from K-Lite codec pac.

[Nobody/Anonymous]

I had a similar problem, although with Media Center, because it is a 64-bit application and does not use the 32-bit codecs installed. I do not know if WMP10 is 64-bit, but if you you do indeed have a 64-bit OS, I recommend using the 64-bit K-Lite codec pack (google it). Otherwise, good luck!