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rickg1949
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June 4, 2010
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No MPEG preview or playback in Bridge CS5

  • June 4, 2010
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After doing a clean install of CS5, everything seems to work well except for Bridge.

HDV mpeg clips will not display a visual thumbnail

or playback in preview window of Bridge.  When double-click

ing icon, I get an error "Windows

cannot find '%ProgramFiles(x86

)%Windows Media Player

\wmplayer.exe'.

When I double-click an AVI file, Bridge finds and uses Windows Media Player just fine.

Need MPEG preview badly!!!!

MPEG clips are working fine in Premiere Pro CS5 and AME rendering is awesome!!!

Thanks, rg

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    rickg1949
    rickg1949Author
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    June 28, 2010

    Ann, I totally agree.  I hated to load some third party creature into my work($$$$)station when I never had to before.  Makes me nervous having those tray icons for ffdshow popping up when I look at footage and one codec to see the mpeg video and another to see the audio in the same clip.  Hope we get an answer (and a fix) from Adobe some time soon.  Right now I'm working, but things don't seem to have the zip and snap that was there in Premiere before I installed that codec package.  Maybe it's just my old-age-brain, but after driving Premiere for as long as I have (and as much), you get that feeling in your gut.

    Plus paying $900 for an upgrade, you'd think one wouldn't need a free-bie download to make it work.  Right???

    All the best,

    Rick

    Ann Bens
    Community Expert
    Ann BensCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    June 29, 2010

    Its even recommended when using Premiere Pro (check the forum) not to install ffshow or any codec pack because it messes up your system.

    rickg1949
    rickg1949Author
    Known Participant
    June 9, 2010

    What if I were to re-install CS 4?  think that might re-add the missing CODEC or WMplayer link?

    Just noticed that all my HDV-mpeg clips (even those captured using CS 5) will not play in WMplayer on Vista 64bit edit station now.

    So frustrating, since Bridge is my inventory manager/sorter.  Have some many projects, so much material, almost 6Tbytes of clips that are used over and over.

    A
    Anonymous
    June 9, 2010

    I made a leap that Bridge CS5 was also 64 bit, but do not know that.  I think CS4 bridge was still 32 bit.

    A reinstall of CS4 on one of the machines would tell a lot of the videos play there.  Then you might be able to do a comparision of what CS4 has that CS5 does not.

    Not sure what "Just noticed that all my HDV-mpeg clips (even those captured using CS 5)  will not play in WMplayer on Vista 64bit edit station now" means. They played befoe on WM player did they not?

    rickg1949
    rickg1949Author
    Known Participant
    June 10, 2010

    Just did an un-install of CS 5, ran the CS 5 install-cleaner script, and re-installed CS 5 on my Windows 7 laptop workstation.  Bridge still the same: no HDV-mpeg clip playback in preview window.  Does have connection to Windows Media player when double-clicking clip and shows a visual thumbnail.

    Previews .m2v clips exported for DVD and .mpeg exported for MPEG-1 type files but not .mpeg clips captured in CS3 and CS4 from HDV.

    On my main edit station (Vista 64bit), everything works well within Premiere, playing, previewing, and exporting all media.  But bridge has same problem as Win7 machine plus Windows Media Player no longer plays all that MPEG-HDV material.

    Is it possible to re-install CS 4 with CS 5 installed?

    It does seem that CS 5 somehow deleted that missing CODEC.

    Help, please, before the next time I have my client sitting behind me wanting to look at clips from his library on my RAID!!

    Rick

    S
    Stone.Pan
    Participating Frequently
    June 4, 2010

    can WMP playback your hdv MPEG? Bridge should use WMP's MPEG codec. Premiere Pro CS5 and AME has embedded MPEG codec, but Bridge can't use it.

    rickg1949
    rickg1949Author
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    June 4, 2010

    Files play via Windows Media player OK.  On my workstation laptop (Windows 7 Pro), Bridge provides me a visual thumbnail of the clip but no player in the preview pane.  On my edit workstation (Vista Ultimate 64 bit) I don't get either, but clips play in Windows Media Player.

    Any way to create the connection needed?

    Just installed update 4.0.2.  No change.

    rickg1949
    rickg1949Author
    Known Participant
    June 8, 2010

    can you purge the video file in thumbnail panel to get new thumbnail?

    I can playback mpeg video in bridge on my windows 7 64bit machine.


    Tried that, still no HDV MPEG playback in preview.  I have a thumbnail on the Windows 7 machine but none on the Vista 64 bit machine.

    When I double-click the thumbnail I still be the "Windows cannot find '%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Windows Media Player\wmplayer.exe'.  Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again." message.

    Would this be some sort of registry glitch or installation problem?  Never had this in CS3 or CS2 versions of Bridge.  Odd thing is, it will link to Windows Media Player when double-clicking a WMV file.  Any thoughts - PLEASE???

    rg

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