Maverick wrote:
Thanks, guys, for responding. I tried it using Media Player, but no luck there, either. In fact, it gave a new message: "Error in locating necessary codec."
As it turns out, I needed a MPEG-2 decoder. My Windows98SE would only support Media Player 9, when I needed an OS of XP or newer to run Media Player 10.
To make a long story even longer, I downloaded an Elecard DVD Player, which had the necessary internal organs to make things work properly. Ironically, I can't play jstanio's tape on that, BUT, now the BSPlayer and Media Player play the tape perfectly.
Go figure.
Anyway, thanks for giving me a direction to look.
That probably means that the Elecard player came with MPEG-2 codecs that BSPlayer and Windows Media could understand. Thus, how you were able to play it with them.