Hi all I am trying to transfer some video files from a desktop top with XP to a laptop with Vista, type of file is a movie clip,

The 1st one worked fine with the full video and the misic backing track I have added to it, but subsequent attempts do not not have the music backing track,

My 1st thought it may be a compatibility prob between the 2 systems,

I am using an SD card into a card reader to upload/download,

Any ideas.

Nick.

assuming you are trying to watch them in windows media player, it will be a codec problem, is it divx, xvid, mpeg? Codecs are available out there.

Its an MPEG they play fine on the XP pc with media player.

Nick.

Yes, but are the codecs on the Vista machine to play them?

Or is Vista's DRM stopping it?

I should have mentioned in my 1st post that the video clips are all from my camcorder, would I still need codecs for those.

Nick.

try another player, vlc media player plays most things, and it's free.

The very best codec bar none is ffdshow tryouts - google it. It plays anything & everything except .flv files & obviates the need for another media player. Us media centre fans won't boot without it:}

But would I need a codec for a camcorder video I filmed myself???

Nick.

You need a codec for anything digital that you want to display (pretty much).