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No MPEG preview or playback in Bridge CS5

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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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rickg1949Author

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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

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

rickg1949Author

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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

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?

rickg1949Author

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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

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Stone.Pan

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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.

rickg1949Author

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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.

A

Anonymous

Curt,

Bridge had been working fine for all the years of CS 2-4 with the same media files. I had a thought it might be a capture-CODEC issue, so I loaded new footage as MPEG-HDV flies and they had same result: showed up in Premiere and played and exported fine, but would not display thumbnails, play in preview window or open in Windows Media Player when double-clicked from Bridge. Error message above still displayed. That faulty connection between Bridge and WMP.

This was result in both my Windows 7 Dell M6400 workstation laptop and Vista 64bit, Precision workstation.

To repeat, I did a complete de-activate, un-install of CS4 before I installed CS 5 on both machines.

Does anyone feel that paid tech support might have answers? My sense is that forum members here can do just as well.

Gotta say, I love that 64 bit rendering engine!!!! Rockets when I watch all 8 cores go to work on a complex spot! Great job there. Just this little glitch needs fixin'!!

Thanks, rg

Have you tried to view the video with the 32 bit CS5? Don't know if all the references are the same, but worth a shot.

In file type associations do you have the mpeg pointed to correct program?

Uninstalling CS4 prior to installation of CS5 should have no effect as they are seperate products. And the downside is that now you can not switch back and forth between the programs to prove it works in CS4 and does not in CS5. If it worked on the same 2 computers in CS4, and not in CS5 and the only difference in the computer hardware and software was the addition on CS5 to me that leaves just 2 possibliities. One it has an installation problem, or two it is a bug.

Br asc is an Adobe employee so his input is valuable. If he offeres to look at your dump file take him up on it.

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